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A woman is taken to hospital by helicopter after almost drowning at a popular Northern Territory swimming hole.
Topics: accidents, batchelor-0845
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| UpdatedAs of next month, Western Australian drivers will not be able to use regular rope to secure a load on the back of a vehicle or trailer.
Topics: road-transport, accidents, laws, agricultural-policy, esperance-6450
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| UpdatedIndonesian search and rescue teams are ending the hunt for victims of last year's AirAsia plane crash, an official says, with 56 people still unaccounted for.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, indonesia, asia, singapore
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A pedestrian has been killed when he was hit by a car while crossing a road in Brighton East, in Melbourne's south-east.
Topics: emergency-incidents, road, accidents, brighton-east-3187
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Three Australian marine researchers have been rescued by the Indonesian Navy after their boat sank in the archipelago's northern waters.
Topics: maritime, accidents, marine-biology, indonesia, asia, australia
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| UpdatedAn incident in which a worker had his legs crushed on Barrow Island, off WA's Pilbara coast, is being investigated by the federal workplace safety body.
Topics: workplace, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, unions, barrow-island-6712, karratha-6714
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South Australia's workers compensation scheme announces it will drop levies for employers after achieving a $20 million surplus in six months.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, work, community-and-society, workplace, accidents, sa
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| UpdatedA successful road safety program run by Western Australia's top trauma unit could close because of a lack of funding.
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| UpdatedA Polish skier is seriously injured after being hit by a light aircraft careering down the slopes of a resort in the French Alps.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, accidents---other, air-and-space, france
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| UpdatedWorkers at Chevron's Wheatstone project in Western Australia say they bunked down on bits of cardboard or the concrete floor when Tropical Cyclone Olwyn came through, and the company faces a "mutiny" over treatment of employees at its Barrow Island site.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, workplace, accidents, barrow-island-6712, wa, australia
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| UpdatedTwo US Secret Service agents are "reassigned" after crashing their car into a White House barrier in a suspected drink-driving incident.
Topics: government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, accidents, united-states
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| UpdatedA notorious group bicycle ride in Melbourne known as the "hell ride" is again in the spotlight after a number of cyclists were reportedly seriously injured in a crash with those taking part at the weekend.
Topics: cycling, accidents, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedFrance is in mourning after three well-known sports stars, including an Olympic champion swimmer and one of the world's best sailors, died in a helicopter crash in Argentina while filming a reality television show.
Topics: death, air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, television-broadcasting, france, argentina
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A disqualified Tasmanian driver had a blood alcohol reading almost three times the legal limit when he caused the death of his friend, a Hobart court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, accidents, dover-7117
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A number of people are investigated for trespassing on a cattery and dog boarding kennel which was destroyed in the Sampson Flat bushfire earlier this year.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, fires, crime, police, inglewood-5133, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA group of French sports stars participating in a reality TV show called Dropped are among 10 people killed when their helicopters collided while filming in Argentina.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, arts-and-entertainment, argentina, france
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| UpdatedA B-double trailer slides down an embankment on the Sturt Highway, about 80 kilometres north-east of Adelaide.
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A relative of a passenger aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 writes on a balloon at a remembrance event on the one year anniversary of its disappearance in Kuala Lumpur, March 8, 2015. Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Sunday Malaysia remains committed to the search for the missing MH370 jetliner a year after it vanished without trace and he is hopeful it will be found.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, air-transport, malaysia, asia
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| UpdatedCyclist groups across the country push for government-backed safety awareness campaigns in the wake of the death of a 25-year-old cyclist in Melbourne late last month.
Topics: traffic-offences, road, accidents, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe fiancée of an Italian chef killed 10 days ago in a car-dooring incident in inner Melbourne recalls the day he died, saying she screamed when she "saw his eyes for the last time".
Topics: community-and-society, death, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, road, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedIt is believed a mother and her three children were returning from a camping holiday when their four-wheel drive rolled off the Goulburn Valley Highway near Molesworth, north-east of Melbourne, killing the woman and her son.
Topics: road, emergency-incidents, accidents, molesworth-3718, yea-3717
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| UpdatedA toddler in the US state of Utah survives 12 hours in the bitter cold after a car crash that kills her mother.
Topics: road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, united-states
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| UpdatedA water skier from Echuca has died after he crashed during qualifying for the weekend's Robinvale-Euston race on the Murray River.
Topics: accidents, emergency-incidents, echuca-3564, bendigo-3550, shepparton-3630, wodonga-3690, robinvale-3549, mildura-3500
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A 17-year-old boy has been seriously injured after a rock climbing accident near Horsham, in south-west Victoria, at the weekend.
Topics: accidents, emergency-incidents, horsham-3400, halls-gap-3381