Death on Water Slide
In Kansas City, an investigation is underway at the Schlitterbahn water park, after ten year old Caleb Schwab dies in an accident while riding the parks Verrckt water slide.
Fatal Car Crash; 02/23/00
FATAL CAR ACCIDENT: Cars and trucks parked on a highway at an accident scene in the daylight; Close-up of totaled car; Firemen pick through wreckage; Garbage truck; Parked police car with firemen in background; Pieces of a wrecked car on ground; No audio
Overseas info: [issue of March 14, 2024]
The Big Four Express running between Chicago and Cincinnati meets with an accident in Earl Park, Indiana.
The Big Four Express jumps the tracks in Earl Park, Indiana. The Big Four Express running between Chicago and Cincinnati meets with an accident. A crowd gathers around the overturned train. A view of the damaged train. Workers clear the debris. Location: Earl Park Indiana USA. Date: October 24, 1934.
CA:YOSEMITE PARK RANGER-NUMBER OF DEATHS EACH YEAR
Second weekend accident reported at Yosemite National Park
News Clip: Accident
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Niagara for Sale
Low-altitude AERIAL SHOTS of highways and freeways. ZOOM OUT from factory smokestack to WAS of factories and their parking lots from overhead. Various medium-altitude AERIAL SHOTS of Eaton's complex and parking lot and large interchanges on the freeway. LS of truck travelling down the freeway, closer shot of overturned truck on an exit ramp.
Pathe
Lifeboat from SS Morro Castle on New Jersey beach after ship fire
(LONDON PARKING)
Pinewood Stock Can material. <br/> <br/>London. <br/> <br/>Various travel shots around London's West End showing the heavy levels of traffic and how difficult it can be to park. The parking problems are very large. VS of men talking to a policeman and swapping details after a small car crash / accident. CU dent in car's bumper. CU dent in other car.
HA Parking Lot Car Accident
HD1080p: HIGH ANGLE shot of a car crashed into a car driving reverse out of the parking lot.
Amusement Park Accident (08/11/1996)
One person is dead, a four-year-old is critically hurt and seven others are injured...Following an accident today at Old Indiana Fun Park. Old Indiana Fun Park is located 45 minutes north of Indianapolis. As Marilyn Carter reports the accident happened today around 12:15 pm on the parks miniature train ride. (Take Pkg)
1980
car accident - night - park drive - ws pan right to left w/ large white sedan along wooded park drive w/ street lamps - car sideswipes guard rail on bridge and hits lamp post
AMUSEMENT PARK ACCIDENTS
COVER FOOTAGE OF THE SIX FLAGSAMUSEMENT PARK AFTER THE ACCIDENT ON THE RAIL BLAZER RIDE. SHOTS OF THE ELEVATOR TYPE RIDE. INTERVIEW WITH PARENTS OF HURT KIDS. SIGNS OF OTHER RIDES. INVESTIGATORS INSPECT THE WRECKAGE.
Abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine, aerial
Journalist filming in Pripyat transitioning into an aerial flight over the abandoned city. Pripyat was abonded after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. This footage was taken in October 2019 and shows how nature has reclaimed the empty buildings and parks. The city was home to nearly 50,000 people before the disaster. They were all evacuated due to high radiation levels the next day, on 27th April 1986. An area 30 kilometres in radius around the reactor is still maintained as an exclusion zone, and will not be habitable for thousands of years.
Hot Rods
Transparent newspaper headline about opening of drag strip, over a pan of a full parking lot which turns into a full image of the drag strip and two cars driving down it; newspaper image of a car accident
2000s NEWS
NYPD POLICE OFFICERS INVESTIGATES ACCIDENT, DAYTIME -STREET SIGN: 6 AVE AND 15 ST, PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN -BLOOD ON STREET, ACCIDENT OR SHOOTING -STREET SIGN: 6 AVE AND 2 ST, PARK SLOPE
AFP-62CM 16mm; VTM-62CM Beta SP; NET-105 DigiBeta (at 01:00:00:00); Beta SP
MISC. TRAFFIC FUNDAMENTALS
Pathe
Ruined SS Morro Castle in New Jersey harbor
The 90s, pilot
2:33 ""Beijing Journal"" by Pat Keeton. Tiananmen Square 1989. Footage of a political uprising of students in China and a discussion of the process of revolt. 12:10 ""Iran-Contra Affair"" by Eddie Becker. Discussion of the impact of the Iran-Contra scandal on the American government and its attitude toward secrecy. Malcolm Byrne admits that ""there's been no significant legislation out of the Iran-Contra hearings... nothing to prevent similar disasters from happening again."" Peter Kornbluh warns, ""We need more documentation, more congressional scrutiny or the next decade will see deeper, darker covert operations."" 14:19 David Halberstam commentary by Tom Weinberg and Skip Blumberg. Halberstam talks about how young people today are going to compete with people from around the world for jobs that their parents were almost guaranteed. ""The new definition of national security is... 'How good is your high school graduate?' The easy affluence has gone; other nations have caught up... Americans are now competing with people their age from Osaka, Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta etc."" 16:30 ""Flying Morning Glory (on fire)"" by Skip Blumberg. At an outdoor restaurant in Phitsanulok, Thailand, a cook demonstrates how to make a stir-fried dish with morning glory leaves. ""Make sure the wok is very hot,"" he says, and then tosses the meal in the air behind him, which is caught on a plate by the server. probably. Just double check with us . 20:19 Bill Murray introduces ""Wired In."" 20:25 ""Wired In."" This segment from the early 1980s examines the generational gap present in attitudes towards computers. 23:12 Bill Murray does a monologue about technology. 23:44 1958 Edsel Commercial. The car features automatic gear shifting. ACCESS ONLY 24:40 ""Buckle Up Commercial"" by Paul Chen. PSA urging seat belt use. ACCESS ONLY 25:15 Tony Schwartz commentary. ""The most important role for the media in the future is to prevent disease, illness and accidents... it's better than medicine. If you stop 5% of people from smoking, you could prevent more cancer than medicine can cure."" 28:24 Nixon Resignation. White House pool feed of Nixon before his resignation broadcast on August 8, 1974. Nixon jokes with the photographers and reporters: ""My friend Ollie is always taking pictures. I'm afraid he'll catch me picking my nose... You wouldn't print that, now would you, Ollie?"" 28:53 Excerpt from ""Rostenkowski"" by Tom Weinberg. House Majority Leader Rep. Jim Wright (D-Texas) claims that influence is gained in government by earning a reputation as an honest person. 31:12 Chuck Olin introduces his piece on human rights abuses in Guatemala. ""When it comes to human rights around the world, the odds have always favored the abusers. They have the political power, they have the money, they have the land, and, as we saw in Beijing, they have the tanks. And yet despite those odds, there seems to be something in the world, something about the human rights movement, that's persistent, powerful, and growing. The human rights movement worldwide is made up of the thousands of stories, in countless small places, involving individuals fighting to get their rights back. Guatemala has one of the worst human rights records in the world, and the worst in this hemisphere. With 100,000 people killed and 40,000 disappeared in the last decade alone. We've been following one story, about the struggle for human rights, in the highlands of Guatemala."" 31:59 ""In Small Places"" by Chuck Olin. April, 1989. Over shots of rural farm life, a debate plays out between General Ortega, speaking for the Guatemalan government, and Amilcar Mendez, speaking on behalf of those suffering political repression. This segment focuses on the issue of men around the countryside being forced to join ""voluntary"" civil patrols under the threat of death, and the movement to stop this oppression. 38:02 Greater Yellowstone News by Phil Morton and Elizabeth Laden. Morton and Laden document the battle for survival for buffalo and newborn calves in Yellowstone National Park. 39:34 ""Root Beer Rags"" by Bill O'Neil, music by Billy Joel. Simple color animation. 43:07 Jimmy Piersall commentary. Former Major League baseball player Jimmy Piersall discusses the future of baseball. 45:19 90's Sports Quiz. Question: What's the best-known horticultural display in the U.S.? Answer: The outfield wall of Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL. Bill Veeck, in 1985, explains: ""The ivy happened because I inadvertently mentioned that the brick walls were so bare and so harsh."" 49:44 sociologist, scholar, community organizer, educator, and activist, Helen Lewis commentary by Appalshop. Lewis, a coal miner organizer, talks about what is to come in the '90s. 51:23 Paul Krassner commentary by Nancy Cain. Cain shows us garbage on Venice Beach, Krassner discusses the '90s. 53:23 ""People and the Land: Ending the Silence"" by Deep Dish TV. At farmer's rights rally in Iowa City, Iowa, a priest says, ""I'm gonna borrow me a pickup, and I'm gonna take a piece of equipment the FDIC wants and I'm gonna liberate it... I'm gonna give sanctuary to a manure-spreader."" 54:35 ""International Women's Day Festival"" by Deep Dish TV. Experimental piece about women's rights. Probably. Double check with us. 56:08 Grace Paley commentary by Skip Blumberg. ""So many people watch TV that it really has the obligation to be truthful on occasion."
CHRISTOPHER REEVE UPDATE (05/30/1995)
ACTOR CHRISTOPHER REEVE REMAINS HOSPITALIZED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA AFTER BEING THROWN FROM HIS HORSE SATURDAY WHILE RIDING IN A COMPETITION IN CULPEPPER. REEVE... FAMOUS FOR PLAYING THE MAN OF STEEL IN THREE SUPERMAN MOVIES... SUFFERED A NECK INJURY DURING THE FALL. THE ACTOR'S FAMILY HAS BEEN BY HIS SIDE AND REFUSES TO COMMENT. A SPOKESWOMAN SAYS IT'S TOO EARLY TO TELL WHETHER HE'LL SUFFER ANY PERMANENT DAMAGE.
1990s NEWS
JUL 12, 1997 CRITICAL BICYCLE ACCIDENT IN PROSPECT PARK EAST DRIVE, PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN -MAN STAND NEAR BIBCYLE, NYPD HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICERS CORDON OFF AREA WITH POLICE TAPE, ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION, COP MEASURES DISTANCES YELLOW VAN WITH PARKWAY WINDOWS INVESTIGATED -BIKERS ON DRIVE, SIGN FOR THE KATE WOLLMAN SKATING RINK -NYC PARKS POLICE SCOOTER
49864 AMERICAN RED CROSS 1940s DISASTER RESPONSE PROMOTIONAL FILM
Made in the 1940s or early 50s, "Disaster Strikes" showcases the capabilities of the American Red Cross during times of regional and national disaster. The film looks at a wide variety of natural disasters including Gulf Coast hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and forest fires as well as earthquakes, and also contains footage of man-made disasters such as train wrecks, airplane accidents, and more. At 2:25, the film shows the organization of the American Red Cross including the national HQ at Washington, D.C. where a vast communications network alerts the Red Cross command structure. At 2:45, teletype machines are seen. At 3:00, a decision-making team is seen including Red Cross personnel and military and government members. At 3:18, a telephone switchboard is seen with many female operators connecting every county in the USA. <p><p>At 4:46, an evacuation in the path of a major storm is shown with livestock and personal belongings evacuated. At 5:10, the storm hits with great fury. At 6:00, an earthquake aftermath is shown. At 7:09, a forest fire. At 7:45, the SS Morro Castle is seen on fire off Asbury Park, New Jersey, and survivors are seen being brought to shore for medical care. At 8:14, a horrific series of railroad accidents are seen. At 8:25, the scene of a Northern Pacific Railroad accident, a deceased person is seen pinned inside a railroad car, and workers try to extricate the deceased. At 8:40, a plane crash is seen. At 9:00, a mining accident aftermath is seen in coal country. At 10:10, massive flooding is seen. The film then shows the Red Cross response, with Red Cross disaster preparedness and relief committees hard at work putting up shelters, feeding survivors, and sharing information with anxious relatives via telegram. At 14:40, a committee is seen reviewing various cases and doling out funds in support of the community.At 15:56, a young girl is shown in a wheelchair recovering from injury, and at 16:00 an African American woman and child receive medical aid. At 16:18, the "sweep of disaster" goes on, with various disasters shown. But the Red Cross will be there.
Hempstead; 5/4/2000
Car accident (NIGHT); police cars with lights flashing parked; Hempstead police cars; traffic drives slowly by scene of accident.