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Call of Duty Co-Creator Dead at 55 in California Crash

Industry pioneer Vince Zampella was also behind Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi games

(Newser) - Vince Zampella, a driving force behind some of the most influential shooters in gaming, died at 55 in a single-car crash in Southern California Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Electronic Arts, which owns his studio Respawn Entertainment, confirmed his death Monday, calling it "an unimaginable loss" and saying...

At UK Parade, He Drove Into 'Person After Person After Person'

Man gets 21+ years in prison for ramming Liverpool soccer fans in May, injuring more than 130

(Newser) - A driver who injured more than 130 people when he plowed his car into soccer fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League championship was sentenced on Tuesday to more than 21 years in prison. Paul Doyle rammed his minivan through a sea of fans on May 26 in two minutes of...

Colorado State Senator Killed in Crash on Interstate

Polis pays tribute to Faith Winter, 45

(Newser) - Colorado State Sen. Faith Winter was killed Wednesday night in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 25 near Centennial, south of Denver, Gov. Jared Polis and other state officials have confirmed. The multi-vehicle accident also left three people injured, reports the Denver Post . Winter, a 45-year-old Democrat from Broomfield, served in...

Lawsuit: Couple Were Trapped in Burning Tesla by Defect

The woman died in 2023 incident in Washington state, while her husband suffered severe injuries

(Newser) - Design flaws caused a Tesla Model 3 to suddenly accelerate out of control before it crashed into a utility pole and burst into flames, killing a woman and severely injuring her husband, a lawsuit filed in federal court alleges, per the AP . Another defect with the door handle design thwarted...

Driver Kills 3, Then Asks, 'Why Should I Apologize?'

Miriam Yarimi, who was doing 68mph in a 25mph zone with a suspended license, gets 3 to 9 years

(Newser) - A Brooklyn driver who killed a mother and her two young daughters while barreling through a red light in March was sentenced Wednesday to three to nine years in prison. Miriam Yarimi, 33, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree manslaughter in the deaths of 34-year-old Natasha Saada and her...

Car Slams Into Crowd, Killing 4, After Troopers Fail to Stop It

Police say the driver had been spotted racing another vehicle in Tampa earlier

(Newser) - A car plowed into a crowd in a historic neighborhood of Tampa early Saturday, killing four people and injuring 11, after police were unable to stop the speeding, erratically driven vehicle. The 22-year-old driver lost control of his car just after midnight and ran into people waiting outside a bar...

Island 'Extremely Shocked' After Man Injures 9 With Car

Authorities on French island of Ile d'Oleron say motorist rammed pedestrians, cyclists

(Newser) - A motorist rammed pedestrians and cyclists Wednesday across two neighboring towns on Ile d'Oleron, a quiet French island popular with tourists off the Atlantic coast, injuring nine people before being detained by gendarmes, officials said. Two of the injured are in critical condition, said Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, adding...

Dying Man Says Girlfriend Crashed Their Car on Purpose
Man Wakes From Coma, Says
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Man Wakes From Coma, Says Girlfriend Crashed on Purpose

She was charged with vehicular homicide when he died 8 months after the crash

(Newser) - A Syracuse-area man critically injured in a car crash in Florida earlier this year told police from his hospital bed that his girlfriend deliberately caused the wreck. Daniel Waterman, 22, was a passenger in a car driven by Leigha Mumby, 24, during Super Bowl weekend in February in Flagler County....

Twin Who Tried to Pin Deadly Crash on Sister Gets Prison

Authorities say Samantha Peterson was high on meth when she killed two kids

(Newser) - A Minnesota woman was on Thursday sentenced to four years in prison in connection with a crash that killed two young sisters riding in an Amish buggy in 2023—a crash she allegedly urged her twin sister to take the fall for. Samantha Peterson, who in July pleaded guilty to...

Truck Driver Charged After Georgia Crash Kills 8

He faces vehicular homicide, feticide charges in crash that killed 3 adults, 5 kids from same family

(Newser) - The driver of a semitrailer following too close behind a van has been arrested on homicide charges in a fiery crash that killed three adults and five children on a Georgia highway, law enforcement announced Tuesday. Authorities initially said seven people were killed but an eighth body was later discovered....

Two Baldwin Brothers Were In a Car Crash

Alec and Stephen are fine after Alec swerved into a tree to avoid a garbage truck in the Hamptons

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin says he and his brother are OK after a car crash in the Hamptons on Monday morning. In a video posted to Instagram, Baldwin alleged that he was driving with his brother, Stephen Baldwin, in his wife's car in East Hampton when a "garbage truck the...

Suit: Cybertruck Design Flaw Doomed College Student

Parents of Krysta Tsukahara, 19, say she was trapped in vehicle after it crashed

(Newser) - The parents of a college student killed in a Tesla crash say she was trapped in the vehicle as it burst into flames due to a design flaw that made it nearly impossible for her to open the door, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The parents of Krysta Tsukahara...

Pittsburgh FBI: Gate-Ramming Suspect Is in Custody

Agency was seeking Donald Henson, who it says slammed into a gate at one of its field offices

(Newser) - The FBI has captured a man accused of driving a vehicle into the gate at the FBI's Pittsburgh field office early Wednesday, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , with officials naming the suspect now in custody as Donald Henson. The incident occurred around 2:40am on the city's South...

Giuliani: It Was 'More Pain Than I Ever Felt'

But 'the best medicine' is on the way for former NYC mayor banged up in crash

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday he experienced "more pain than I ever felt" after a car crash last weekend but expects to recover fully, making his first public remarks on video about the rear-end wreck in New Hampshire. After multiple days in a hospital , Giuliani returned—wearing what appeared to...

Police Release Details of Giuliani Crash

He was passenger in a vehicle rear-ended by a teenager

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani is out of the hospital and said to be feeling good, after getting banged up in a car crash in New Hampshire on Saturday. The former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump suffered a fractured vertebra when the vehicle he was traveling in was rear-ended...

Giuliani Hospitalized After High-Speed Highway Crash

Former mayor suffered broken bones after late-night New Hampshire crash

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized with a number of injuries Saturday night after his car was rear-ended on a New Hampshire highway, according to his spokesperson. The 81-year-old former New York City mayor sustained "fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm...

Amish Community Reeling After Michigan Crashes Kill 6

Separate crashes left at least 6 members of Amish community dead, including a baby

(Newser) - A pickup truck went through a stop sign in rural Michigan Tuesday and crashed into a van carrying members of an Amish community, killing at least six people, authorities said. The afternoon crash occurred in Tuscola County's Gilford Township, 100 miles north of Detroit, the AP reports. Thirteen people...

Man With Broken Bones Crawls Miles After Crash, Dog in Tow
He Crawled Miles
for 11 Hours.
Buddy Never
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He Crawled Miles for 11 Hours. Buddy Never Left His Side

Utah man praises dog for sticking with him after his car tumbled off a cliff

(Newser) - A Utah man is recovering after surviving a harrowing ordeal in the Uinta Mountains, where his off-road vehicle tumbled off a cliff, flipping an estimated 15 to 20 times. Jacob "Jake" Schmitt, a native of Buffalo, New York, who now lives in Ogden, was hunting with his dog,...

Honeymoon Turns Tragic for Young Dad, Daughter

Mother hospitalized after fiery Kentucky crash leaves 3 dead

(Newser) - A newlywed couple's honeymoon ended in tragedy with a devastating crash in Kentucky last week. Hunter Lyons, 22, and his 1-year-old daughter, Oakleigh, were killed on Saturday and pronounced dead at the scene when their vehicle was struck head-on by a Ford F-150 that veered across the center...

Woman 'Lucky to Have Survived' Crash With McMahon

Former WWE CEO cited for reckless driving after 3-car collision in Connecticut

(Newser) - Vince McMahon has been cited for reckless driving and ordered to appear before a judge following his involvement in a three-vehicle collision. The 79-year-old former WWE CEO crashed his Bentley into the back of a BMW along Route 15 in Westport, Connecticut, on Thursday, then hit a guardrail, TMZ reports,...

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