Poor weather conditions and bad driving are being blamed for the massive pileup that forced Sunday's lengthy shut down of Highway 41/45 near Lannon Road in Germantown, Wisconsin.

A Vancouver, Washington woman who enjoyed tweeting about area news, including traffic, under the handle @ScanCouver may have unintentionally live-tweeted a car accident that her husband was fatally injured in.

The Florida Highway Patrol says a motorist who stopped his car to rescue a cat that he spotted on Florida's Turnpike ended up causing a crash that killed an elderly Boynton Beach woman and backed up rush-hour traffic for miles.

A Maryland woman apparently unaware of the dangers associated with texting and driving received a crash course on the subject after driving her car into a lake yesterday.

A grossly negligent Gwyneth Paltrow came thisclose to colliding with a school bus last week after she pulled her Vespa in front of the vehicle without giving her horrific traffic violation a competing thought.

Authorities in Wisconsin say a driver who was too busy texting to pay attention to the road ended up slamming his rented convertible into the back of a farm tractor hauling a trailer full of liquid manure.

Authorities in Utah's Garfield County say "all the precautions" were in place, but that's of little comfort to the parents of 9-year-old Oaklee Lynn Sidwell who died last week from injuries she sustained after the backyard trampoline she was on got carried away by a "freak" gust of wind.

A gun safety instructor in Ohio accidentally shot one of his students in the arm after violating the number one rule of gun safety.

The body of a man who had been missing from his Palatine, Illinois, home for several hours was found crushed inside his building trash compactor. Police say he had been searching for his lost phone at the time of his death.

Despite accidentally shooting himself in the face with a speargun last week, Bruno Barcellos de Souza Coutinho of Brazil will somehow manage to leave the hospital with his brain intact.

A bus driver in China narrowly escaped being impaled by a large blue lamppost that slammed into the windshield of his bus as he was conducting his daily route.

A bus carrying the Seton Hill women's Lacrosse team crashed earlier today, careening off of the Pennsylvania turnpike and colliding with a tree. The driver and one other passenger were killed and 24 passengers were taken to a local hospital with various injuries.

The MTA is reporting this morning that a female subway patron was struck and killed by a southbound No. 3 train after falling on the tracks.

While standing around appreciating the sight of shoulder-height sea foam stretching across Australia's eastern coast, two traffic cops get the surprise of their nearly extinguished lives when a car suddenly appears from beneath the fluff and barely misses running them over.

An infant in Russia came thisclose to getting crush beneath the wheels of a truck after being tossed onto the icy pavement following a collision between her family's Mitsubishi and a big rig.

Nordic countries are known for eating some weird shit — so is it any surprise that one of the region's delicacies managed to shut down an entire tunnel for weeks after burning for days and releasing toxic fumes?

Authorities and prosecutors investigating the case of a cleaning lady who was at the helm of a train when it went off the rails near Stockholm and crashed into a three-story apartment building say they have cleared the woman of any wrongdoing.

Highway Patrol troopers say a dog is to blame for a man's death in a bizarre car accident that took place earlier this week.

Skrillex (né Sonny Moore) was the guest of honor at a private birthday party in Hollywood Tuesday night, when a close encounter with some birthday candles nearly left the dubstepper bereft of his signature tatty coiffure.

Crashing his car into a pizza shop wasn't a good enough reason for one Nebraska man to skip lunch.