A Virginia woman was transported with minor injuries following a single-vehicle accident in Mercer County Tuesday. According to Deputy W.E. Rose, with the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, Fallon White of Falls Mills, Va., was traveling eastbound on Airport Road when she lost control of her vehicle and struck an embankment. The vehicle then rolled over and came to a stop facing upward. Rose said White told officers a deer jumped out in front of her vehicle and she swerved to miss it. Read article
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Dutch tourist Ruben Engelhardt, 22, in a hospital in Nha Trang after he sustained serious injuries when chasing two robbers who snatched the bag of his friend Colin Charlotte as she was walking on Tran Phu Street in Nha Trang Town on October 16. Tourism firms and residents have criticized local police for being inactive […]
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A British holidaymaker is fighting for her life after a quad bike accident during a holiday in Ibiza. Lisa Darlington, 45, is reportedly in a drug-induced coma in intensive care after being thrown from a bike being driven by her son, Danny, 21. Read article
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PHUKET: One French tourist is dead and another remains in a coma after the motorbike they were riding crashed at the beach road in Karon before dawn yesterday.Chalong duty officer Boonlert Onklang said that police were informed of the accident, at a curved part of the beach road near the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort, at […]
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HOLIDAYMAKER was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital yesterday after falling on to rocks on the shore of Loch Ness, near Foyers. The Loch Ness lifeboat team were launched yesterday The Loch Ness lifeboat team were launched yesterday The incident happened just after 2.30pm after the woman, who was on holiday from East Sussex with her husband […]
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EMERGENCY doctors are warning tourists travelling to Bali about the dangers of tainted cocktails after a backpacker was left with permanent damage to her vision from a drink containing methanol. The 19-year-old American developed methanol poisoning after drinking eight to 10 complimentary drinks at popular tourist bars in Denpasar, Bali.Read Article
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Lifeguards in Ceredigion have warned people not to touch snakes after a man was bitten by an adder at Borth beach. The 20-year-old holidaymaker was bitten on the hand when he picked the snake up in sand dunes on Saturday. Read Article
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An Italian has had to be rescued after falling into a cliff of Cala d’Hort (Ibiza) and stay overnight in the area, as rescue efforts have been very complicated. In the event, the young, about 28, has suffered a brain injury and multiple trauma injuries in the spine. As reported from the 061, the notice […]
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A German tourist was injured 15 years after falling into the void from a second floor of a hotel in Platja d’Aro (Baix EmpordĂ ) while doing ‘balconing’. The incident took place last Saturday when the child attempted…. Read Article
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An expatriate consultant for the World Health Organisation (WHO) and his colleague have been wounded in Pakistan, after armed men opened fire on their vehicle. The two workers, who were taking part in a polio vaccination programme, were injured in Gadap Town in Karachi on Tuesday. Read article
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