Military veteran Aaron James had lost his eye and half of his face in a high-voltage electrical accident.
The young boy had been riding his bike when a freak accident resulted in his head being severed on the inside.
A man from Illinois recently ended up in hospital after 'sleep-shooting' himself while dreaming that there was an intruder.
The bizarre accident occurred while the robot was playing a game of chess against a 7-year-old opponent.
Jet suits capable of speeds of up to 85mph could help paramedics reach accident victims in remote areas much faster.
In a future ever more dominated by robots, how we deal with their mistakes will become increasingly important.
A man in India who was involved in a motorcycle accident was not quite as dead as doctors had believed.
The vials were discovered quite by accident by a laboratory worker who had been cleaning out a freezer.
Astronomers have obtained their first detailed look at a peculiar Milky Way object known as 'The Accident'.
Tesla's self-driving car technology has caused a number of road accidents involving emergency vehicles.
A pair of would-be thieves ended up being arrested after accidentally phoning the police themselves.
A freak accident saw a young girl being carried skyward by a large kite during a kite festival earlier today.
A chance sighting of a car accident by a member of the public spawned an urban legend that endures to this day.
A young pole vaulter recently suffered a wince-inducing injury after a freak accident during one of his jumps.
A blind Polish man made headlines recently after a car accident somehow helped him regain his sight.
A freak accident has resulted in the deaths of four rare mountain gorillas in Uganda's Mgahinga National Park.
Engineers at MIT have accidentally created a material 10 times blacker than anything that has come before.
A man in India who was thought to have died following an accident turned out to be very much alive.
A Pakistani minister was left red-faced after a cat filter was accidentally enabled on his Facebook livestream.
Surgeons managed to accidentally set a man's chest cavity on fire during an operation in Australia.