A serious car accident is traumatic enough. But in many cases, the danger does not end with the initial collision. Secondary car accidents — sometimes called chain-reaction crashes — occur when a first crash creates hazards that lead to additional impacts. These...
On September 3, 2025, near Unimak Pass in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (about 20 miles north of Akutan Island), reports indicate 27-year-old Baxter Cox sustained fatal injuries while working aboard the 58-foot fishing vessel Halcyon. According to the Alaska Department of...
On September 10, 2025, near the entrance to the Galveston Ship Channel by the South Jetty, Port of Galveston police rescued three men from the water after a 27-foot recreational boat capsized around 4:40 a.m., according to port officials. Officers brought all three to...
On September 9, 2025, along State Highway 146 just north of Moss Hill, Texas, a 2017 Freightliner tractor-trailer collided with a southbound 2018 Ford Fusion, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS reported the northbound truck was turning into a...
On September 10, 2025, a Bell 206 helicopter went down late Wednesday morning near Mt. Paran Church Road and Brown Hill Church Road in Walton County, Georgia. According to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Aviation Administration, two people were on...
Twist locks are the steel connectors that secure shipping containers to a ship’s deck, hatch covers, rail cars, and truck chassis. Each lock drops into a container’s corner casting and, with a quarter-turn of the mechanism, “twists” a cam that prevents vertical or...
On September 9, 2025, at the Port of Long Beach (Pier G), about 67 containers toppled from the 2024-built containership Mississippi during discharge. Port officials reported no injuries. Several boxes splashed into the harbor while others struck a nearby clean-air...
On September 8, 2025, in northeast Andrews County, Texas, first responders from the Andrews County Sheriff’s Office, Andrews EMS, and Andrews Fire Marshals were dispatched to an oil field pump station after reports of an explosion. According to the Sheriff’s Office, a...
On September 6, 2025, around 9:00 a.m., a single-engine Beechcraft crashed about one-eighth of a mile from the runway at Brookings Regional Airport (Brookings, South Dakota), according to the Brookings Police Department. Police identified the occupants as pilot Evan...
On September 6, 2025, at about 2:45 p.m., a Robinson R66 helicopter crashed and caught fire west of Airlake Airport in Lakeville, Minnesota, according to the Lakeville Police Department. Responding officers and firefighters found the helicopter in a non-residential...