Accidents, Accidental Deaths | featured news

A 74-year-old Pennsylvania man died this week after a headstone fell on him while he was at a relative’s grave. Stephen Woytack was decorating his mother-in-law’s grave for Easter on Monday when the stone toppled, reported ABC affiliate WNEP.

A 17-year-old boy in south Texas died after firing a single shot that ricocheted off a butane tank and hit him in the head in McAllen, Texas.

A couple used a jug to make their 10-month-old daughter take solid food which eventually killed her, a court hears.

A high school baseball player from Garfield, N.J. died over the weekend after being hit in the chest by a pitch during practice.

Police say a Florida man who thought there was an intruder in his house shot and killed his fiancee the day before they were to get married.

Thai officers investigating the death of David Carradine say he most likely died of asphyxiation.

The Michigan couple were trying to cut a tree when the man hit his wife in the neck with the chain saw.

Accidental deaths reignite debate over number of parents who sleep with their babies for bonding.