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Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy. The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at age 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 toll booth.
The death of Bridget Driscoll (née Swift; [1] c. 1851 – 17 August 1896) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in Great Britain. [2][3] Driscoll was born in Ireland but living in Surrey with her husband and children at the time of her death. She had planned a three-day trip to London to attend a ...
Mary Ward (née King; 27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869) was an Irish naturalist, astronomer, microscopist, author, and artist. [1] She was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. As the event occurred in 1869, she is the first person known to have been killed by a motor vehicle. [2][note 1]
Louis Jordan (1890–1918), 1914 All American, first US Army officer from Texas to be killed in action during World War I; William Thomas Ponder (1893–1947), flying ace credited with six aerial victories; Marcelino Serna (1896–1992), Army private, first Hispanic to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross
Here at West 74th Street and Central Park West, Henry H. Bliss dismounted from a streetcar and was struck and knocked unconscious by an automobile on the evening of September 13, 1899. When Mr. Bliss, a New York real estate man, died the next morning from his injuries, he became the first recorded motor vehicle fatality in the Western ...
The car was built by her cousins, the sons of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. [3] 1891 – United States – John William Lambert was involved in the first recorded automobile crash in American history. The crash occurred in Ohio City, Ohio. Lambert's vehicle—the first single-cylinder gasoline automobile—was carrying Lambert and James ...
Carrie Ingalls Swanzey. Caroline Celestia Ingalls Swanzey (/ ˈɪŋɡəlz ˈswɒnzi / ING-əəlz SWON-zee; August 3, 1870 – June 2, 1946) was the third child of Charles and Caroline Ingalls, and was born in Montgomery County, Kansas. She was a younger sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who is known for her Little House books.
A female firefighter said she has seen comments made by male colleagues about the type of underwear women were wearing in a car crash. Firefighters ‘photographed dead bodies of women in car ...