Hindustan Times British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh A man survived the Air India crash that killed at least 200 people, a police chief has told an Indian news agency. Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik told ANI there was one survivor, who was in seat 11A on the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight. The flight manifest...
A video showing the moment a London-bound Air India flight crashed in India is now verified. BBC Verify has geolocated Air India flight AI171 to a location in Ahmedabad which is consistent with the flight path between the runway and the crash site. The appearance of the aircraft in the footage is consistent with an...
The scene in Ahmedabad after the Air India passenger plane crashed shortly after take off is very shocking. Smoke is still rising from the ruins of buildings at the crash site. Pictures show a burnt bed frame lying in the street. Everyone is running, trying to save as many lives as possible. Firefighters can be...
BBC Correspondent Roxy Gagdekar reports from the scene of a plane crash in Ahmedabad, India. The London bound flight was reported to have been carrying 242 passengers. Air India said the flight was carrying 169 Indian nationals, as well as 53 Britons, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals. Read full article at source...
242 people were on board the Air India plane. Read full article at source...
A man has died following a crash involving a motorbike and a bicycle, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to reports of a collision on the southbound carriageway of the A380, near Kennford, Exeter, at about 12:40 BST on Tuesday. The force said the motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the...
One person has been seriously injured in a collision involving a motorbike and a bicycle, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to the scene on the southbound carriageway of the A380 near Kennford, Exeter at about 12:40 BST on Tuesday. The southbound carriageway has been closed at Splatford Split and...
Lisa Young BBC News, South West BBC Firefighters said the people in the car on Friday night had been “very lucky to have survived” A fire chief has warned drivers to be aware of an accident hotspot on Dartmoor after three people were injured when the car they were in overturned. Ashburton Fire Station crew...
Police have appealed for witnesses after a single-vehicle crash in North Devon. Devon and Cornwall Pollice attended the scene on the B3233 near Instow, Bideford at about 10:50 BST on 6 June. Police said the collision involved a grey VW Golf GTI which collided with a tree. Two men in their 20s were subsequently taken...
A British woman has been charged in Australia over the death of a man she allegedly hit while riding an e-scooter after a night of drinking. Prosecutors told magistrates that Alicia Kemp, 24, hit Thanh Phan, 51, from behind at speeds of 20-25km/h (12-15mph) on a pavement in Perth city centre on 31 May. The...
An 11-year-old boy has become the second child to die after a minibus overturned on a motorway slip road. Othniel Adoma, from Bracknell, Berkshire, died on Thursday, more than three weeks after the single-vehicle crash, said police. A white Ford Transit minibus overturned on the link road at junction 10 of the M4 to the...
A woman in her 80s has died following a crash involving four cars in Exeter, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the incident involving a Toyota Yaris, Vauxhall Movano van and two parked cars happened on Cowick Lane in Exeter at about 13:00 BST on 29 May. Officers said a passenger in the...
PA Media Mazyar Azarbonyad previously admitted dangerous driving A personal trainer who caused a pile-up of police cars after fleeing from them while driving home from a first date has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offenders institution. Seven officers were injured and five police cars damaged in the crash caused by 20-year-old...
Vanessa Pearce & Richard Price BBC News, West Midlands Stewarts Solicitors Leah Washington-Pugh said while she and husband Joe can never move on from the Smiler crash they “couldn’t be happier” A couple who were seriously injured in the Smiler rollercoaster crash at Alton Towers say they can “never move on” from it, but still...
family handout Sam Gardiner had been working as a landscape gardener on the west coast of Scotland before his death Former Race Across the World contestant Sam Gardiner has died after a crash. The 24-year-old had been driving on the A34 near Manchester on Monday night when his car left the road and rolled before...