Falls
Bob Saget’s Autopsy Report Describes Severe Skull Fractures
Some neurosurgeons said that it would be unusual for a typical fall to cause Mr. Saget’s set of fractures — to the back, the right side and the front of his skull. Those doctors said that the injuries appeared more reminiscent of ones suffered by people who fall from a considerable height or get thrown […]
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Bob Saget’s Death: Brain Injury Experts Give Advice on Preventing Serious Harm
It appeared to be an ordinary fall: Bob Saget, the actor and comedian, knocked his head on something and, perhaps thinking nothing of it, went to sleep, his family said on Wednesday. But the chilling consequences — Mr. Saget, 65, died some hours later on Jan. 9 from blunt head trauma, a medical examiner ruled […]
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Effort to Rescue a 5-Year-Old Transfixes Morocco, Only to End Sadly
CAIRO — The vigil had lasted for four days, transfixing tens of thousands of people around the world who watched, tweeted, cheered and prayed as a small band of rescuers in a tiny Moroccan village tried to free a 5-year-old boy from the deep well into which he had plunged. #SaveRayan, they pleaded. On Saturday […]
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Victim of Berkeley Balcony Collapse Dies in Ireland
DUBLIN — A survivor of a balcony collapse that killed six students in Berkeley, Calif., in 2015 has died in a hospital in her native Dublin, her family said Monday. She was 27. The woman, Aoife Beary, died “peacefully” after “a brave battle with her injuries sustained in the Berkeley balcony collapse in California” her […]
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