A 61-year-old North Carolina woman was killed when she smoked while hooked up to an oxygen tank, according to a report.
Belinda Coble was smoking a cigarette around 8 a.m. Tuesday as oxygen was being administered at her home in Zebulon, 20 miles northeast of Raleigh, news station WNCN reported.
The cigarette caused her oxygen tank to ignite, which resulted in an explosion, authorities said.
Her husband was asleep when the incident occurred, but called 911 when the blast and smoke alarm woke him, the outlet reported. He then attempted to put out the fire.
Coble was pronounced dead when authorities arrived, WNCN reported.
Via: https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/nash-county-woman-dies-after-cigarette-ignites-oxygen-tank-causing-explosion/
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Woman killed by passing car after jumping out of car
A woman was killed when she fell out of a moving car and was struck by another vehicle after initially surviving the fall.
Houston Police said that a woman became upset with her husband when they were driving back from downtown Houston around 1 a.m. Authorities say she started crawling out of the car when it was going full speed and fell out onto the North Freeway.
The woman, whose identity has not yet been revealed, survived the fall out of her vehicle but was then struck by a passing car and killed. Both the woman’s husband and the vehicle that hit her stopped and stayed on scene.
A secondary crash then happened when somebody crashed into one of the cars of the people that stopped to help the victim. A third – and unrelated incident – occurred when a driver was stopped for driving under the influence at the scene of the initial accident.
“This [second] vehicle also stopped to try to help the woman. So the traffic behind them, they had to slam on their brakes and there was an accident that happened here. Unfortunately, one of the drivers in that accident, unrelated to the fatality, left the scene and so we are investigating that accident as well,” said Sgt. David Rose of the Houston Police to ABC News’ Houston station KTRK.
Police say that the woman had been drinking but that her husband, the driver, had not. The northbound lanes near 610 were closed for several hours as police investigated the separate incidents.
Said Sgt. Rose: "You just got to be prepared to make sudden stops on the freeway. You never know what's going to happen."
Via:https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-falls-moving-car-argument-husband-killed-passing/story?id=67084465
Houston Police said that a woman became upset with her husband when they were driving back from downtown Houston around 1 a.m. Authorities say she started crawling out of the car when it was going full speed and fell out onto the North Freeway.
The woman, whose identity has not yet been revealed, survived the fall out of her vehicle but was then struck by a passing car and killed. Both the woman’s husband and the vehicle that hit her stopped and stayed on scene.
A secondary crash then happened when somebody crashed into one of the cars of the people that stopped to help the victim. A third – and unrelated incident – occurred when a driver was stopped for driving under the influence at the scene of the initial accident.
“This [second] vehicle also stopped to try to help the woman. So the traffic behind them, they had to slam on their brakes and there was an accident that happened here. Unfortunately, one of the drivers in that accident, unrelated to the fatality, left the scene and so we are investigating that accident as well,” said Sgt. David Rose of the Houston Police to ABC News’ Houston station KTRK.
Police say that the woman had been drinking but that her husband, the driver, had not. The northbound lanes near 610 were closed for several hours as police investigated the separate incidents.
Said Sgt. Rose: "You just got to be prepared to make sudden stops on the freeway. You never know what's going to happen."
Via:https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-falls-moving-car-argument-husband-killed-passing/story?id=67084465
Man Killed By Own Booby Trap Thanksgiving Night
A man was shot and killed after he set off a booby trap in his own home on Thanksgiving night.
Ronald Cyr, 65, of Van Buren, Maine, died of injuries sustained at his home on Nov. 28 after a handgun that was designed to fire upon anybody entering the front door of his residence went off.
Officer Chandler Madore and the Van Buren Police Department, assisted by the U.S. Border Patrol, responded to a call indicating that Cyr had been shot. But when officers arrived on scene they discovered that he had been injured by a booby trap that he had allegedly set up himself, according to a statement released by the Van Buren Police Department.
Several other booby traps were found at Cyr’s residence causing investigators to contact the Maine State Police Bomb Squad.
However, following an extensive investigation that last several hours, it was determined Cyr had been shot unintentionally after discharging his own booby trap.
“Regretfully, Mr. Cyr succumbed to the injuries sustained from the gunshot,” said a statement from the Van Buren Police Department.
It is unknown why Cyr had set up the booby traps at his home or how he managed to accidentally detonate the device.
Via:https://abcnews.go.com/US/booby-trap-kills-man-home-thanksgiving-night/story?id=67414907
Ronald Cyr, 65, of Van Buren, Maine, died of injuries sustained at his home on Nov. 28 after a handgun that was designed to fire upon anybody entering the front door of his residence went off.
Officer Chandler Madore and the Van Buren Police Department, assisted by the U.S. Border Patrol, responded to a call indicating that Cyr had been shot. But when officers arrived on scene they discovered that he had been injured by a booby trap that he had allegedly set up himself, according to a statement released by the Van Buren Police Department.
Several other booby traps were found at Cyr’s residence causing investigators to contact the Maine State Police Bomb Squad.
However, following an extensive investigation that last several hours, it was determined Cyr had been shot unintentionally after discharging his own booby trap.
“Regretfully, Mr. Cyr succumbed to the injuries sustained from the gunshot,” said a statement from the Van Buren Police Department.
It is unknown why Cyr had set up the booby traps at his home or how he managed to accidentally detonate the device.
Via:https://abcnews.go.com/US/booby-trap-kills-man-home-thanksgiving-night/story?id=67414907
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