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Driver killed by falling tree branch
The Borneo Post
KUCHING: A delivery truck driver was killed in a freak accident during a thunderstorm yesterday when a falling tree branch landed on the roof of the vehicle he was driving. The deceased has been identified as Yap Khoon Beng, 56, from Siniawan in Bau.

Independent Online
Logger appeals guilty verdict for 'freak accident'
Independent Online
In what has been described as a “freak accident”, the felled tree stump hurtled towards Taljaard while she was walking with a group of people on April 13, 2006. One witness, according to court documents, described what looked like a Christmas tree ...

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Hill Post
One dead, 5 injured in freak tree fall accident in Manali
Hill Post
Manali: In a freak accident, one person died and 5 others got away with injuries when a sudden wind storm caused a deodar tree, hollow in the middle to break and fall on makeshift shops at Dhungri, near Hadimba temple at Manali.

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Giant tree crashes down on homes in Coulby Newham
Gazette Live
by Emma Greenhalgh, Evening Gazette A COUPLE and a family had a lucky escape after a giant oak tree came crashing down on their houses. The freak accident saw the 60ft tree damage two properties in Coulby Newham and demolish a garage containing a ...

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Downed Tree Kills Man In Storm In Gates County
WITN
The Highway Patrol has released the name of the man killed in a freak accident Tuesday night. Troopers say 21-year-old Anthony Walker, Jr. of Gatesville was killed. The Highway Patrol says the entire tree came down across Middle Swamp Rd. just as ...
NC man dies when tree falls on car during thunderstormWVEC.com (subscription)

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Mountain biker killed in freak Cypress accident identified
Regina Leader-Post
Pilley, 43, who lived in Vancouver, was riding down the trail and suffered massive chest injuries when he lost control and hit a tree after landing a jump. Emergency workers were quickly on the scene and Pilley was transferred to hospital where he was ...

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Fatal explosion was a tragic accident
The Review
"It was a bad accident - just one of those freak things that you don't see very often," Hancock County Sheriff Mike White said. "Very unfortunate." The likely cause of death was trauma and burns from the explosion, according to the sheriff, ...

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Car fishtailed before fiery triple-fatal
Sydney Morning Herald
AAP A fiery car crash that killed three teenagers in Melbourne's north is likely to have been a freak accident, police say, triggered by the driver losing control as the tyres spun out on the wet suburban road. Witnesses spotted the Mercedes-Benz sedan ...

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Northland's NewsCenter
A Mule Leads to Iron Range Rollover
Northland's NewsCenter
... (Northland's NewsCenter) - Two people were injured after a freak car accident on the Iron Range. Police say the driver swerved the vehicle to avoid hitting a mule walking alongside highway 169. The car then skidded off the road, hit a tree, ...

Daily Mail
UK weather: A month's rain to fall in just a few hours in wettest day of the ...
Daily Mail
A main road had to be closed at the junction where builders are working on a new Jamie Oliver restaurant Freak accident: Part of a tree crashed through the roof of this police van as it travelled through Odiham, Hampshire. Local sources reported a ...

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