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  • Tracy Morgan Shocker: Will Comedian Be Left With Permanent Brain Damage?

    Tracy Morgan Shocker: Will Comedian Be Left With Permanent Brain Damage?

    It may be hard for members of the public to understand the kind of trauma experienced by actor Tracy Morgan during his horrific car accident.

    But recent news should help to drive home just how difficult recovery has been for the 45-year-old comedian.

    According to Morgan’s lawyer, Benedict Morelli, it’s still unknown whether or not he will ever be able to perform again.

    Tracy is currently undergoing rehabilitation for damage received when his limousine was struck by a Walmart truck driver on the New Jersey turnpike. The accident, which occurred back in June, took the life of James McNair, a good friend of Tracy Morgan’s.

    The incident also left Morgan in critical condition, at points looking as though he too may succumb to injuries.

    Tracy Morgan has battled back from the brink, making serious strides.

    However, the 30 Rock actor had to content with more than broken bones. Morelli also said that Morgan suffered from a severe brain injury.

    He’s also reportedly in rehab to repair his speech, cognitive, vocational and physical functions.

    Even with all the hard work, it’s believed that a complete recovery from injuries might be impossible.

    There’s speculation that Morgan may not be able to walk again without some form of assistance.

    However, as his recovery is ongoing, it’s too soon to say whether or not not this is a definite reality.

    Tracy’s lawyer seems to have a great deal of faith in his client’s chances.

    “Mr. Morgan is a fighter,” said Morelli, “He’s fighting to get better. And if there’s a chance for him to be back to the Tracy Morgan he once was, he’s going to try to do that.”

    Tracy Morgan is suing Walmart over the car accident. The company fired back that Morgan and his fellow passengers are partially to blame for the events of the night as they were not wearing seat belts.

    Kevin Roper, the Walmart driver who plowed into Morgan’s limo from behind, was charged vehicular homicide and assault by auto for his role in the horrific event.

    Reports indicate that Roper hit the vehicle while going 65 mph. The speed limit was 45 mph that night due to ongoing construction.

  • Train Derailment Injures Dozens in Arkansas

    Disaster struck on Thursday as a freight train collided with a passenger train in Washington County, Arkansas. The accident has left dozens injured and has prompted an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

    According to a report from Little Rock NBC affiliate KARK, five people were critically injured in the crash and at least 20 more were injured in some way. There were reportedly 44 people on-board the passenger train at the time of the crash. Several of those injured were reported to have been train crew members.

    The NTSB announced yesterday that it has launched an investigation into the incident. An NTSB “go-team” of railroad investigators has been sent to the site of the crash. The team is expected to be at the scene of the accident for five to seven days to collect perishable evidence.

    The KARK report quotes police as stating the passenger train left Springdale, Arkansas early Thursday morning and later slipped off its tracks. The freight train was reportedly sent for aid, but ended up crashing into the passenger train.

    According to the NTSB the passenger train, made up of one locomotive and four cars, stalled in what is called “dark territory” – a section of track controlled by a railroad’s operations control center rather than signals. The cause of the stall has not yet been determined.

    An NTSB spokesperson went on to state that the rescue train dispatched to help collided head-on with the passenger train’s lead engine. Both trains were derailed as a result of the crash, though no fuel was released and there were no fires. Both of the trains had forward-facing video recorders that should help investigators determine the cause of the accident. The official number of passengers injured in the crash has not yet been determined.

    The next NTSB media briefing has been scheduled for Friday at 5 pm EDT in Springdale.

  • Florida Bus Crash Involves School Bus, Naked Woman

    Car crashes happen every day all over the world and are so common that the majority of them do not even make local headlines. There are exceptions, of course. Someone like Jennifer Lopez being rear-ended is bound to make the tabloids. Also, Florida. Florida is always an exception.

    On Monday a log truck slammed into the back of a school bus in Starke, Florida. According to a Florida Times-Union report a chaotic scene involving children crying and a naked woman lying nearby played out as rescue workers arrived at the crash site.

    A Bradford County, Florida sheriff told the Times-Union that some children were trapped on the bus when he arrived. The sheriff also stated that the injured, naked woman appeared to have been thrown from the truck during the crash.

    Post by The Florida Times-Union.

    Fifteen children were aboard the bus when the crash occurred and seven were taken to the hospital for injuries. Three adults were also injured in the crash – the bus driver, the truck driver, and the naked woman (later determined to be the truck driver’s wife). No one died as a result of the crash.

    What exactly caused the crash has not yet been determined. The most intriguing question surrounding the incident – why the woman was naked – has also not yet been determined.

    According to the Times-Union report the crash occurred at a school bus stop on U.S. 301 on Monday afternoon while the bus was dropping off elementary school students. It was raining at the time and some parents were waiting at the bus stop. The bus driver saw the truck speeding toward the bus and hit the accelerator before the crash, mitigating some of the impact. Even so, the truck slammed into the bus without breaking, pushing it about 40 yards into a field by the road. Witnesses told the newspaper that the truck’s engine became dislodged as the truck jacknifed into a ditch.

    The Times-Union has since reported that the truck had been stopped and inspected in Nassau County at around noon on Monday. Authorities had been alerted that the log truck, which was not carrying a load, was driving recklessly.

  • Utah Car Crash Kills 5, Injures 2

    Utah Car Crash Kills 5, Injures 2

    The Fourth of July weekend is one of the most dangerous driving weekends in the U.S., with millions of motorists hitting the nation’s highways – and many of them not entirely sober. This danger was viscerally illustrated this weekend by a deadly car crash in a remote part of Utah.

    The crash, as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune, took the lives of five people Sunday afternoon. Two others are still in critical condition following the accident.

    The accident occurred at around 2:30 pm on Sunday on U.S. Highway 191 just north of Monticello, Utah. A van carrying five people reportedly attempted to pass another car and crashed head-on into a sports car coming down the other lane. The two people riding in the sports car died, as did three of the people in the van. The van’s two other passengers have not died, but are in critical condition.

    The Utah Highway Patrol closed both lanes of traffic on U.S. 191 following the accident.

    This tragedy marks the second deadly highway accident to occur in Utah over the Fourth of July weekend. On July 4 a woman and two children died in a similar car crash in Tooele County, Utah. According to a Salt Lake Tribune report, the family’s SUV collided with a truck driving in the wrong lane of Interstate 80 on Friday evening. The woman’s husband and the driver of the truck were in serious condition as of Saturday.

    Before the Fourth of July weekend the Utah Highway Patrol had announced via its website that troopers would be out in full force throughout the summer. The organization’s goal for the summer driving season is “proactive policing,” which includes troopers “doing all they can to gain voluntary compliance through education and enforcement.”

    Image via Facebook/Utah Highway Patrol

  • Former Napster COO Milton Olin Jr. Dies After Being Hit By Police Car

    Milton Olin Jr., who once served as COO of Napster, is dead after being hit by a police car while riding his bicycle.

    The accident happened at 1:05 PM at the 22000 block of Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles on Sunday. Olin was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene. He was sixty-five years old. CBS Los Angeles reports:

    Investigators confirmed to CBS2′s Melanie Woodrow the deputy was on routine patrol and was not responding to an emergency at the time of the collision. They also confirmed that Olin, a prominent entertainment attorney, was in the bike lane when he was struck.

    The deputy who was driving was taken to the hospital. Authorities say he has minor lacerations to his face and cuts on his eye due to glass that broke from the impact of the collision.

    The police say that speed wasn’t a factor in Olin’s death, and that drugs nor alcohol are believed to be involved. The deputy who hit Olin has so far not been named. He’s being interviewed today.

    According to his LinkedIn profile, Olin was working as a partner at Altschul & Olin. He had been practicing law since departing Napster in 2002 (he spent two years at the company). Prior to napster, he had been SVP at FirstLook.com, SVP Business & Legal Affairs A&M at Polygram, SVP Business & Legal Affairs at A&M Records, and a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP.

    The above photo comes from what appears to be Olin’s personal Twitter account where he has often tweeted about cycling.

    The accident comes less than three months after former Amazon CFO Joy Covey was also killed in a bicycle accident in San Mateo County.

    [via TMZ]

    Image: Twitter

  • Amish Buggy Accident Results in 2 Fatalities

    An Amish mother and her 11-year-old daughter were killed when a truck hit the back of their horse-drawn buggy in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, around 4:20 p.m. on Saturday. The accident occurred on Pulaski Mercer Road, close to the intersection of Angel Road, where Mary and her daughter were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident by Brad McGonigle, who is the coroner for Mercer County. Mary’s adult son (35-year-old William Byler) was the driver of the buggy. When officials arrived, Byler was taken to Saint Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, Ohio. A spokesperson for the hospital said that Byler remains in critical condition. The horse pulling the buggy was so severely injured from the accident that officials had to euthanize the animal.

    According to Pennsylvania State Police, William Byler was directing the buggy along the road when a truck driven by 36-year-old Matthew Coulter ran into the back of the moving buggy. Coulter then called 911 to alert officials. The Pennsylvania State Police are presently in the middle of an investigation utilizing techniques such as accident reconstruction, and have not released additional details at this time. Present reports have not revealed whether any charges will be filed.

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    [Image Via Wikimedia Commons and Courtesy of Ad Meskens]

  • I-40 Crash In Tennessee Leaves 8 Dead And 14 Injured

    Today is a sad day for the folks in Jefferson County, Tennessee, as a terrible accident involving a tractor trailer, a bus, and a passenger vehicle have left 8 people dead and 14 injured. The accident between these vehicles happened at mile marker 423 along the Tennessee stretch of the I-40 interstate. (Source: Examiner.com).

    According to WBIR (the NBC affiliate in Knoxville, TN) and the THP (Tennessee Highway Patrol), the crash happened at 2 p.m. on October 2nd when the left front tire of the church bus blew out, causing the driver to lose control of the bus and crash into a tractor trailer and an SUV on the other side of the interstate’s median. This caused the tractor trailer to catch fire, and the church bus overturned.

    The Director of Jefferson County’s EMA, Brad Phillips told WBIR that “the local rescue squad extricated several passengers from the bus, which was very close to the burning tractor-trailer.” However, Phillips could not provide the number of how many people needed to be rescued, but he did state that most of the rescued patrons were out within 15 minutes of the squad’s arrival.

    Unfortunately, this crash resulted in fatalities. According to Examiner.com, six passengers from the church bus were killed, along with one from the tractor trailer, and the other one in the SUV, resulting in eight fatalities. The other 14 people involved in this crash encountered non-life-threatening injuries and were airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital.

    WBIR states that the names of the victims have not been released yet and that the fatalities will be taken to the University of Tennessee’s forensic center to be identified at a later time. The church bus was from Front Street Baptist Church in Statesville, North Carolina.

    Various users of the Twitterverse reach out and mourn the victims with the families involved in this horrific accident.

    [Image source: WBIR]

  • Crazy I-96 Accident Caught on Vine; Truck Jumps Guardrail, Flies into Creek

    Here’s some social media-aided citizen journalism for ya.

    A 59-year–old Kentwood, Michigan man has been taken to the hospital with serious injuries after the truck he was driving crossed the median and flew a guardrail on I-96. The truck, which was also towing a riding mower on a trailer, landed in Sycamore Creek, according to the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office.

    Spectacularly, Vine user Alex Stack caught the whole thing on the 6-second video app. You can clearly see the truck jump the railing and fall out of sight into the creek below. It’s some crazy stuff.

    “Did I just fucking witness this no fucking way,” she said.

    …And the aftermath of witnessing something crazy and posting it online:

    The man was reportedly talking to police at the scene – which means he was conscious at the scene. That’s almost as incredible as the video, plus the fact that someone happened to catch it on Vine.

  • Parasailing Accident Leaves Two Teens Hospitalized [VIDEO]

    Two 17-year-old girls were injured on Monday after a parasailing accident sent them airborne. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Indiana teens were vacationing in Panama City Beach this week when they were carried aloft on a gust of wind after attempts to winch them back failed. The boat they were attached to was anchored to keep it from being pulled onto shore, and the towline then became detached. The girls smashed into the side of a building and hit power lines before landing on parked vehicles.

    Part of the disturbing accident was captured by a foul-mouthed beach-goer and posted to YouTube:

    Both of the girls suffered head trauma, and one received spinal surgery this week. Though they were in critical condition when they arrived at a local hospital, they are now expected to recover.

    Aquatic Adventures, the company that runs the parasailing business issued a statement this week saying that its employees “adhere to best practices to minimize the risks associated with watersport activities,” but that “sudden weather conditions can and do occur.”

    (Image courtesy Grand Velas Riviera Maya under Creative Commons license)

  • Kyra Sedgwick Cut Off The Tip Of Her Finger This Weekend

    Kyra Sedgwick, star of “The Closer”, cut off the tip of her finger on Saturday while preparing dinner.

    The 47-year old actress was caught on camera in the emergency room by her husband, actor Kevin Bacon, looking decidedly unhappy as she held her hand in a bandage. Bacon tweeted the photos to his followers, saying, “Kale isn’t always healthy … if you chop the end of your finger off”.

    Sedgwick is recuperating, although she has to wear a giant bandage on her index finger. No details have been reported as to how many stitches she received or whether she’ll have to have surgery.

    The actress had to say goodbye to the character she brought to life on “The Closer”–Brenda Leigh Johnson–last year after seven years on the show. Sedgwick was nominated for four Emmy Awards and won one, and said at the close of the series that she would miss Brenda.

    “I admire her a great deal,” Sedgwick said about her character. “I admire her tenacity. I admire her number-one focus being the people that are gone and who can no longer speak for themselves. I’ll miss her complexities and her flaws.”

  • EagleMed Crash Kills 1, Prompts Questions

    EagleMed Crash Kills 1, Prompts Questions

    A medical helicopter crash killed a patient and injured a medical worker on Tuesday near Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    According to Choctaw Nation Health Services, an investigation into the crash and the safety record of EagleMed, the company that owned the helicopter, is now underway. EagleMed is a medical transport company that operates around 20 different locations throughout the midwestern U.S.

    The helicopter crashed on Tuesday night, less than 100 feet away from Choctaw Nation Healthcare Center (CNHCC) near Talihina, Oklahoma, where it had taken off from on the way to Tulsa. Though hospital emergency workers were nearby to treat the passengers, 49-year-old Michael Wilson, the patient on the flight, died. One member of the flight crew was critically injured, and was taken to a trauma center in Tulsa. The two other members of the crew were not seriously injured.

    “Our staff responded extremely well to this unfortunate tragedy”, said Teresa Jackson, CNHCC CEO. “We engaged our disaster plan within moments of the accident, and the response from our staff as well as the local and state emergency personnel in the area was outstanding.”

    The cause of the crash has yet to be determined, though the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Choctaw Nation law enforcement officials, and an Eagle Med safety team are all currently investigating the incident.

    EagleMed has expressed its thanks to well-wishers during what it calls a “difficult time.”

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    Thank you for the thoughts, prayers and concern for our crew at EagleMed.McAlester. Your support and love brings us comfort in this difficult time. Those planning to attend the 10th Anniversary event scheduled at EagleMed6.Tahlequah today, the event has been post-poned until further notice. Powered by socialditto(image)  90 likes ·  9 comments

    According to Tulsa’s KXII news station, this is the third EagleMed helicopter to have crashed in just the state of Oklahoma since 2010.

  • Florida Boat Crash: 9 Injured, Charges Considered

    A boat crash in the Florida Keys this weekend flung passengers into the water and injured nine people. According to an ABC report, authorities are now considering charges related to the incident.

    A 36-foot boat carrying 16 people near Elliott Key, Florida was struck on Sunday evening by a 28-foot boat carrying two people. People in the larger boat were thrown into the water, and the smaller boat sank in the aftermath. Nine of the passengers were injured, including one that had to be rescued using a fire rescue helicopter. No children were injured in the crash.

    Though alcohol was not reportedly a factor in the accident, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is conducting an investigation. At issue is whether either boat captain violated Florida boating rules.

  • ‘Sewage Baby’ Safely Returned to Grandparents

    A Chinese baby rescued from a sewer pipe just inches thick is now healthy and in safe hands.

    According to a BBC News report, the baby was rescued from a pipe in a residence near Jinhua City, China on Saturday, May 25. The infant’s mother told police that the baby slipped into a toilet and went down the pipe as she was giving birth to it. The woman reportedly then told her landlord about the incident.

    After cutting the pipe from the wall, the baby was carefully removed from the pipe at a hospital in Jinhua City. The infant, known as “Baby 59” after its hospital incubator number, recovered and was released to its maternal grandparents.

    Though police initially investigated the incident as an attempted murder, authorities are now saying they have evidence that it was, in fact, an accident.

  • 7 Dead in Upstate N.Y. After Semi, Minivan Collide

    Seven people, including four children, are dead after a tractor-trailer collided with a minivan in upstate New York on Wednesday.

    According to an Associated Press report, a tractor-trailer was traveling on a Truxton, New York road just outside of Cortland at around 6 pm Wednesday evening. The semi’s cargo of crushed cars became disconnected from its trailer, causing the trailer to cross the roadway and hit a minivan.

    The minivan was reportedly carrying two families. Four children and three adults in the minivan died in the accident, while one man survived and is currently receiving treatment at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. The two passengers in the semi were not injured.

    One of the two families in the minivan was reportedly from Truxton, a small town of around 1,100 people. The crash occurred on Route 13, a rural, two-lane road that passes through Truxton and serves at the town’s Main Street.

    Crash kills seven outside of Syracuse

  • Teen Misses Trip That Killed Five Friends in Fiery Car Crash

    A California teen who missed a Memorial Day trip with his friends is now coming to grips with how close his life came to ending.

    According to an Associated Press report, 17-year-old Tamer Mosallam’s friends were the teens that died in a fiery Memorial Day car crash in Los Angeles. The teens, who have now been identified, were all students from the Irvine Unified School District.

    Police now believe they have pieced together some of the details of the deadly crash. 17-year old Abdulrahman Alyahyan was reportedly driving the car in Newport Beach on Monday when it hit a tree in the road median. The force of the impact split the car in two, and one half of what remained caught fire. Four of the passengers were thrown from the car and died at the scene. One of the teens was only partially thrown from the vehicle, and died after being taken to a nearby hospital.

    The other passengers in the car included 17-year-old Cecilia Zamora, 17-year-old Nozad Al Hamawendi, 17-year-old Robin Cabrera, and 16-year-old Aurora Cabrera. The Cabreras were sisters.

    Mosallam told the AP that he was to have been the sixth passenger in the car, to make the trip a triple date. His father, however, would not let him go because he was studying for a test.

    Irvine Unified School District Superintendent Terry Walker this week issued a statement on the deaths of the students, calling the tragedy an “unimaginable loss.” From the statement:

    Our community bears an unimaginable loss today as we mourn the passing of five students who were tragically killed on Monday in a horrific car accident.

    There are simply no words to convey the sorrow felt by our students and staff, nor are there sufficient answers to explain the loss of five vibrant teenagers from our schools and this community.

    On behalf of the entire organization, our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of each of these young men and women. We will do everything possible to help our schools cope with this tragedy in the emotional times ahead.

  • I-5 Bridge Collapses in Washington State, Three Cars Plunge Into River

    A bridge crossing the Skagit River in Northwest Washington State collapsed on Thursday, sending three vehicles into the river and injuring three people.

    According to a report from Seattle’s local Fox affiliate, a bridge along I-5 about 60 miles north of Seattle collapsed, sending vehicles into the Skagit River 50 feet blow. People in those vehicles were reported to have climbed on top of their cars to stay out of the water. The injured persons are all reported to have survived with only minor injuries.

    A Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) cited witnesses as saying the cause of the bridge collapse was an oversized load truck that struck the bridge, though the official cause of the collapse is still under investigation. The department has closed both directions of traffic on the I-5 in Skagit County, and is advising locals on possible detour routes. The National Transportation Safety Board will also be investigating the collapse, after which the WSDOT will remove the broken bridge and replace it.

    (Image courtesy the Washington State Department of Transportation)

  • Mayor Terry Buckle Rams Car Into Store

    Mayor Terry Buckle Rams Car Into Store

    According to a report from the East Anglian Daily Times, Bury St Edmunds Mayor Terry Buckle drove his car through the front of a Tesco Express on Tuesday. The 73-year-old Buckle had only been mayor of the town for five days when the incident occurred. Bury St Edmunds is a small town located in Suffolk, England.

    Buckle reportedly drove the care from a parking spot into the front door of a Tesco Express shop. Buckle was uninjured, but was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution, and had X-rays taken of his neck. Though sore from the accident, he was then taken home to rest. No other serious injuries were reported.

    Despite the nature of the accident, the damage caused was reportedly minimal. The side mirrors on Buckle’s car were damaged, and the doors and security equipment near the entrance to the Tesco were also damaged.

  • 2 FBI Agents Killed in Training Exercise

    The FBI this week revealed that two special agents died during a training exercise on Friday, May 17.

    Special Agent Christopher Lorek, 41, and Special Agent Stephen Shaw, 40, died while training off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The two were part of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, an elite group within the bureau’s Critical Incident Response Group, which is based out of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The cause of the deaths has not been released, and the FBI has stated that the incident is under review.

    “We mourn the loss of two brave and courageous men,” said Robert Mueller, FBI director. “Like all who serve on the Hostage Rescue Team, they accept the highest risk each and every day, when training and on operational missions, to keep our nation safe. Our hearts are with their wives, children, and other loved ones who feel their loss most deeply. And they will always be part of the FBI Family.”

    Lorek was a 17-year veteran of the FBI, having joined in 1996. Shaw had joined the FBI in 2005.

    The FBI describes the Hostage Rescue Team as a national counterterrorist unit. The group responds to “extraordinary” hostage crises and other law enforcement situations within the U.S.

  • Teen Shoots 6-Year-Old Sister, Young Girl In Stable Condition

    A little over a week after a young boy shot and killed his younger sister, another similar tragedy has occurred after a teen shot his 6-year-old sister in the chest. The difference is that this young girl survived.

    The Sun-Sentinel reports that a 13-year-old boy accidentally shot his 6-year-old sister in the chest with a handgun at their Oakland Park home over the weekend. It was later revealed that there was no supervision at home at the time of the shooting.

    The accident was reported by Justin Latourette, a neighbor, after he heard a gunshot a little before 7 p.m. He recounted the scene of when they were wheeling the young giri into an ambulance:

    “Her shirt was bloody, and you could see through a piece of gauze that she had a hole in her chest above the heart. Her eyes were wide open in a blank stare, like she was in shock. I’ll never forget that look.”

    Thankfully, the young girl who has now been identified as Angela Divin is said to be improving after she was listed as critical over the weekend.

    Statistics from the Children’s Defense Fund suggest that accidents like this one aren’t uncommon, and that parents need to do a better job of securing guns while educating children about the danger of firearms. In fact, the Fund found that one-third of all households with children under 18 have a gun in the house, and more than 40 percent of those households don’t store said guns in a inaccessible, or locked, location.

  • Teen Hit by Softball Dies on His Birthday

    Though deaths rarely occur as a result of playground activity, tragic reminders sometimes pop up to remind us that injuries can happen, and that some of them can be fatal.

    This week, a San Diego-area high school student died after being hit by a softball during a P.E. class.

    According to a report from San Diego news station ABC 10, 16-year-old Taylor Dorman was playing a game called “over-the-line” during his P.E. class at Ramona High School on Wednesday when he was hit in the chest with a softball. Though the teen laughed off the injury, he collapsed 20 minutes later.

    Dorman was taken to a local hospital, where he was admitted to the intensive care unit. His heartbeat was reportedly irregular, and doctors were unable to stabilize it. Dorman was pronounced dead on Wednesday, April 10, which also happened to be his 16th birthday.

    Students at the high school held a candlelight vigil Wednesday evening, during which they released birthday balloons for the teen.

    San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com

  • Trapped Kids Found Dead Under Dirt Wall in North Carolina

    Tragedy struck in Denver, North Carolina this weekend, as two children died in an accident at a construction site.

    According to a report from Charlotte ABC affiliate WBTV, two children were playing in a dirt pit when a dirt wall collapsed on them. James Caldwell, age 7, and Chloe Arwood, age 6, were buried beneath thousands of pounds of dirt in the incident.

    Caldwell’s father, who was working at the construction site, called police, who began efforts to dig the children out of the 24-feet deep pit. The search for the children lasted through the night, with around 75 rescue workers digging non-stop. The children’s bodies were located early Monday morning.

    Neighbors have told WBTV that the children were cousins. The basement for a house was being dug out at the construction site at the time of the event.