People you know that died in a freak accident. What happened?

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Paternal Grandpa drove into a river

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Watch the first 5 minutes of every episode of 6 Feet Under.

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Anonymous wrote:Friend's dad was working on his trailer and it somehow collapsed onto him.

Ugh. This happened to the husband of the woman my dad dated in his later years. The man was working on his car in the driveway and it fell off the jacks and killed him. She was home at the time. She was a nurse and couldn’t save him. They had six kids, then early elementary to teens if I remember the story correctly. So sad.

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Anonymous wrote:My uncle went to his basement gym, hopped on the treadmill but somehow tripped and fell off. Hit his head and died. Wasn't found until Tuesday when he didn't go to the office because it was a long weekend and he was a bachelor. Be safe out there, everyone

I know a super healthy 35yo that had the same thing happen. She lived, but had s TBI and needed a full year recovery to learn to walk again and everything

My friend's father also died after a home gym accident. He lived alone and nobody found him for several hours after the fall.

Another friend died of a freak car accident where he hit a moose and it went through his windshield.

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Anonymous wrote:This was overseas.
Friend's family went to visit a local dam (like Hoover Dam size.) An uncle leaned against a railing which wasn't secured properly and tumbled into the churning water below and drowned by the time they got to him.

I won't trust the fixtures at any tourist attractions since hearing this, even in the U.S. I'm not going to trust that someone has checked to make sure each bolt is secure.

I have a relative who nearly died at a scenic overlook because he leaned against a railing and fell hundreds of feet off a cliff.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who was impaled with a rogue flying beach umbrella on a family vacation.

This is such a fear of mine.

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Classmate's sister was run over by a neighbor backing out of their driveway while they were walking home from school.

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Childhood friend’s step dad was a roofer; fell off a roof and died

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Friend's father was cleaning leaves out of the gutter and fell off the ladder. Friend witnessed the whole thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Classmate's sister was run over by a neighbor backing out of their driveway while they were walking home from school.

The singer Steven Curtis Chapman's 5 year old daughter died because she was hit by her teenage brother's car when he backed out of their driveway.

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Plane crash, guess not freakish but rare. A high school boyfriends mother; the family fell apart and I think one of the brothers ODed a couple years later.

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Didn't Eric Clapton get his kid a tricycle for xmas and he rode it right out of their upper floor condo? Not sure where my brain just dug that up from.

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Anonymous wrote:Classmate's sister was run over by a neighbor backing out of their driveway while they were walking home from school.

The singer Steven Curtis Chapman's 5 year old daughter died because she was hit by her teenage brother's car when he backed out of their driveway.

Children being run over by cars are not freak accidents sadly.

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My dear friend experienced a failure of positional awareness while flying her small airplane, with her favorite young granddaughter as a passenger. In the dark of night she flew into the side of a mountain and ignited a major forest fire.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classmate's sister was run over by a neighbor backing out of their driveway while they were walking home from school.

The singer Steven Curtis Chapman's 5 year old daughter died because she was hit by her teenage brother's car when he backed out of their driveway.

Children being run over by cars are not freak accidents sadly.

Backup cameras have reduced the number of such accidents now.