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"Danger! No Selfie Sticks on the platform" sign at a West Japan Railway Company station. This is a list of serious injuries and deaths in which one or more subjects of a selfie were killed or injured before, during, or after taking a photo of themselves, with the accident at least in part attributed to taking the photo.
Human beings in the year 2016 enjoy taking photographs of themselves -- but what happens when selfie-snapping crosses the line from nuisance to dangerous?
Most victims fell to their deaths, while others drowned, got struck by trains, were shot, or were involved in a fatal car crash. See photos of people taking questionable selfies: Number 2.
Source claims woman took selfie, added caption to selfie, uploaded selfie, and then got into an accident, police in source are quoted saying 'this is what happens when you text and drive' Xenia Ignatyeva, a 17-year-old Russian girl, took a selfie from a bridge that was an entire 28-feet off the ground in order to show off to her friends.
The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at the age of 18 in a high-speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a tollbooth.
His death raises the grand total to 12 selfie deaths just in this past year. Compare that to the eight deaths by shark attack in 2015 and you have a 21st-century problem on your hands.
Intentional traffic collisions may be a chosen method of suicide where speed limits are high enough to produce fatal deceleration. [2] Modern cars have high rates of acceleration and can easily reach very high speeds in short distances, while most cannot protect occupants in frontal impact collisions exceeding 70 km/h (43 mph). [3]
A man was struck and killed by lighting on Sunday because he was carrying a selfie stick. He was in the Brecon Beacons during a thunder storm when the deadly bolt struck the millennial-crazed device.