martes, 20 de diciembre de 2011

List of unusual deaths

Here we have a portion of the wikipedia list of unusual deaths over the history. I'll just put the most recent ones so if you want to check the rest here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

2010s

  • 2010: Jenny Mitchell, a 19-year-old English hairdresser, was killed when her car exploded after fumes, caused by chemicals mixing with hydrogen peroxide leaking from a bottle of hair bleach, ignited as she lit a cigarette.
  • 2010: Amy Rose Coxall, a 15-year-old British schoolgirl studying in Hong Kong, died of neck strangulation shortly after her scarf got caught in the wheel of a go-kart she was driving on a karting course.
  • 2010: Vladimir Ladyzhensky, a competitor from Russia, died in the World Sauna Championships in Finland after he had spent six minutes in a sauna that had been heated up to 110 °C (230 °F).
  • 2010: Mike Edwards, 62, a musician and a founding member of rock group Electric Light Orchestra, was killed when a 600 kg (1,300 lb) bale of hay rolled down a hill and landed on his passing van in Devon, England.
  • 2010: Jimi Heselden, owner of the Segway motorized scooter company, was killed when he accidentally drove off a cliff on a Segway at his estate and drowned in the River Wharfe.
  • 2010: Robert Boardman, 63, was gored to death by a mountain goat at Olympic National Park.
  • 2010: Robert Gary Jones, 38, was killed while jogging on a beach in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina when he was hit from behind by a small plane making an emergency landing.
  • 2010: A 71-year-old man from Annerstad, Sweden died after a hunter fired a single shot that passed through an elk before hitting and killing him
  • 2011: Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, died after being stabbed in the leg at a cockfight by one of the birds that had a knife attached to its limb.
  • 2011: Arthur Sexton, 80, drowned after falling off a step ladder and landing upside down in a water butt containing only a couple of feet of water.
  • 2011: Acton Beale, 20, died after falling from a balcony in Brisbane, Australia, the only person known to have died while participating in a fad known as 'planking'.
  • 2011: A 25-year-old woman from Ottawa, Ontario and Steven Leon, 40, of Gatineau, Quebec, died after an airborne American black bear smashed through the windshield of their SUV near Luskville, Quebec. The bear had been hit by another vehicle, launching it into the oncoming lane where it landed on the SUV.
  • 2011: Sheila Decoster, 62, died from asphyxiation after falling head first into a recycling bin at her home in Toledo, Ohio.
  • 2011: Brian Depledge, 38, died from asphyxiation at his home in Bradford, England, after tripping and falling into a plastic clothes airer and trapping his neck in the rungs.
  • 2011: Ally McCrae, 23, died from a heart attack after being crushed by a cow carcass at an abattoir in Paisley, Scotland.

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