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CBC
a day ago
- Business
- CBC
Residents say they're breathing easier with scrapyard licence unrenewed
The Department of Public Safety confirmed it has not renewed American Iron & Metal's salvage dealer licence, much to the relief of neighbours, who pushed to have the scrapyard moved away from their residential area. A spokesperson for the company said they're disappointed in the decision and weighing options on how to move forward.
Motor 1
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Motor 1
‘Currently Waiting for the Cops:' Truck Runs Through Woman's Yard at 55 MPH and Takes Off. Then She Sees Their Milwaukee Tools
A woman recorded the aftermath of a truck that tore through her and her neighbor's yards, leaving several boxes of Milwaukee tools strewn across the ground. Krissy C. (@fattyxgirl) posted a series of TikToks detailing the scary incident. In addition to worrying about the harm that could've possibly come to those in the accident's proximity, she says the wreck also highlighted how stalwart Milwaukee's products are. Truck Yard Wreckage Krissy begins her video by walking through a yard, showing off the damage caused by the runaway driver. Left behind were sets of tools packaged in Milwaukee's distinct red branding. The TikToker can be heard saying off-camera, 'Hey Milwaukee, a truck just went through my yard at about 50 miles an hour.' Next, she pans her lens up off the ground and onto the road. Another large toolbox can be seen resting beside the asphalt. Further along, an additional large storage container, also red in color, rests on the side of the road. As she continues to walk, she commends the build quality of the brand's offerings. 'All their toolboxes, your [expletive] is still surviving,' she says. The TikToker then hones in on a smaller Milwaukee clamshell-style case that's still intact. 'If this ain't the best form of advertisement, I don't know what is. You're welcome. Not a [expletive] mark,' she adds, walking past yet another Milwaukee toolbox as she flips her camera around to show the distance she's traveled in the clip. 'All the way down there, through my fence. Go Milwaukee,' she says, showing off the damage to her property as her clip comes to a close. Milwaukee Crash Updates Krissy also posted several follow-up videos that further delineate the aftermath of the truck crash. In this clip, she shows skid marks left on a driveway, along with tread lines that tore up portions of their lawn. The TikToker also notes that a neighbor's mailbox was damaged in the accident. In another clip , she explained that the person who drove through the yards was a 32-year-old mother. Krissy detailed that her husband ran outside to approach the woman, who the TikToker says was intoxicated behind the wheel at the time. Moreover, she detailed how frightening the incident was, as her daughter and dogs were in the yard prior to the accident. She shuddered to think what could have happened if the woman struck them while they were outdoors. Thankfully, she said that 'everyone is OK,' but it was difficult getting back to sleep after thinking about what injuries her loved ones could've sustained. In yet another TikTok , she shared a photograph of the truck after it careened through the yards. The picture shows a red pickup stalled on an embankment on the side of the road. Krissy appears to have digitally scribbled on a portion of the photograph over the opened driver's side door, presumably to shield the identity of the woman driving the truck. Commenters Respond Several folks who replied to Krissy's video seemingly urged her to keep the Milwaukee tools for herself. 'What tool boxes? We didn't see any tool boxes,' one penned. Another replied, 'Nice of them to drop off your new tools.' One user on the application quipped, 'You lost a fence, but gained a contracting business.' Whereas another joked, 'Well at least [the driver] left the tools to fix it.' Another TikToker speculated that Krissy and her family could keep the tools and resell them. Subsequently, they could get the money from the tools left behind to pay for the construction of a new fence. 'In fairness. those tools resell for more [than] the property damage. God works in mysterious ways,' they wrote. There was one person on the app who urged Krissy to bring up the incident to the county in order to argue for the installation of a guardrail. 'I'd be talking to the county & see if you can get a guardrail installed in yours & your neighbors front [yard],' they said. And from the looks of this user's comment, it seems that there are others who've had to deal with drunk drivers ruining their property: 'We've had our mail box ran over 4 times. 3 doors down we have the party house. My husband finally put a thick metal pole in the ground very deep down with cement. So this time they are just gonna run it down next time. I can not stand drunk drivers! Every single one should be in jail.' Guardrails According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) , guardrails are installed in order to 'lessen the severity of crashes.' These multi-part systems help to prevent or minimize damage to property that rests behind them by slowing down or stopping vehicles that may collide with them. A number of tests are conducted on guardrails to determine their protection efficacy. One assessment involves a side-swipe scenario. If a vehicle were to steer into a guardrail, the apparatus should redirect the car back onto the road. Furthermore, head-on collisions are also tested on guardrails, which are designed to absorb the impact of vehicles. Portions of the rails are designed to bend as a means of capturing this kinetic energy to assist in stopping cars that directly strike them, grill first. The FHA writes that most guardrails are rated for speeds up to 62 miles per hour. Should a vehicle hit one at speeds in excess of this figure, 'the guardrail may not operate optimally,' the organization states. Motor1 has reached out to Krissy via TikTok comment for further information. Now Trending 'We're Not Seeing It:' Woman Takes 2016 Versa to Nissan 5 Days Before Her Warranty's Up. Then the Tech Says Something Shocking 'It Feels So Gross:' Do Car Dealerships Really Have Microphones to Eavesdrop on Customers' Personal Conversations? Get the best news, reviews, columns, and more delivered straight to your inbox, daily. back Sign up For more information, read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use . 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South China Morning Post
16-06-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Air India crash: grieving families say goodbyes as search for answers continues
Mourners covered white coffins with flowers in India on Sunday as funerals were held for some of at least 279 killed in one of the world's worst plane crashes in decades. Advertisement Health officials have begun handing over the first passenger bodies identified through DNA testing, delivering them to grieving relatives in the western city of Ahmedabad, but the wait went on for most families. Hundreds of relatives of the crash victims have provided DNA samples. Most of the bodies were charred or mutilated, making them unrecognisable. 'They said it would take 48 hours. But it's been four days and we haven't received any response,' said Rinal Christian, 23, whose elder brother was a passenger. There was just one survivor out of 242 passengers and crew on board the Air India jet when it crashed on Thursday into a residential area of Ahmedabad, killing at least 38 people on the ground. Workers remove wreckage from the Air India crash in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Photo: AFP 'My brother was the sole breadwinner of the family,' Christian said. 'So what happens next?'
BBC News
13-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
The sound of jet engines was deafening - then it was chaos
It was a balmy Thursday afternoon at the residential hostel of the BJ Medical College and the canteen was teeming with students getting room buzzed with the sound of jokes, banter between friends, and the odd bit of academic 13:39 local time, there were at least 35 people in the cafeteria. Some had already collected their food and were lounging around, while others were in the queue waiting for their students mixed with doctors and family members. Then, everything changed. The general hum of the canteen was pierced by the sound of approaching jet engines - and then the room exploded. Less than a minute earlier, Flight AI171 had taken off from the runway at Ahmedabad's airport, just 1.5km (4,800ft) Air India 787 Dreamliner was bound for London, carrying 242 something had gone catastrophically wrong, and mere seconds after its wheels left the ground, the plane was in trouble. A mayday call was sent before it came crashing down into a busy residential area - on top of the doctors' hostel - sending a massive fireball into the sky and killing all but one person on BBC has spoken to eyewitnesses, including students who were in the hostel, along with friends of the trainee doctors who died and their teachers, to piece together what happened in those terrifying few seconds - and the aftermath that followed. People on the ground nearby couldn't immediately work out what had happened.A doctor, who works with the college's kidney sciences department, says he and his colleagues were in their building, about 500 metres away, when they heard a "deafening sound" outside."At first, we thought it was lightening. But then we wondered, could that be possible in 40C dry heat?"The doctors ran when they heard a few people screaming: "Look, come here, a plane has crashed into our building."The next few minutes were a blur. Scenes of chaos descended on the campus as people ran around trying to escape - or find out what had Prince and Krish Patni were on their bikes just a few metres from the hostel when they heard the noise."Within seconds we could see something that resembled a wing of a plane," Prince, 18, told the BBC."We rushed to the scene, but the heat from the explosion was intense and we couldn't enter the hostel. There was a lot of debris." The brothers, along with a few other volunteers from the local area, waited for the heat to subside before attempting to physically enter the building. They worked together with the police to move some of the debris from the they finally reached the canteen, they couldn't see dense clouds of smoke had engulfed the room. The air smelled of burned metal. The brothers, who just minutes before had been heading to play cricket, began removing cooking gas cylinders to avoid any further explosions, Krish, 20, brothers and other volunteers then spotted a pile of suitcases and went to move them. What unfolded next, they said, was gut them, they began to make out the shapes of were alive. Some had spoons full of food in their hand, some had plates of food in front of them, and some had glasses in their were all badly were also silent, in shock. Just minutes before they were having their usual afternoon. Now, they were surrounded by charred metal pieces of aircraft."They didn't even get a chance to react," another doctor, who was in a nearby building, said. A second year student, who lives in the hostel, was among those who managed to was sitting at his usual spot - a large table at the corner of the mess, next to one of the walls - with nine others when the plane crashed."There was a huge bang and a horrible screeching sound. Next thing we knew, we were under huge boulders, stuck without anywhere to go," he says. "The fire and smoke of the crashed plane was close to our face and it was hard to breathe."He received severe chest wounds in the accident and is still undergoing treatment at a local hospital. And he doesn't know what happened to his eyewitnesses told the BBC the massive wing of the plane first pierced through the roof followed by parts of the fuselage. The damage was most severe where the wing the chaos, students began to jump from as high as the second and third floors to escape. Students later told how one of the only staircases out was blocked by is not known how many people were killed on the Minakshi Parikh, dean of the BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, told the BBC that four of their students had died, as well as four students' exactly how many and who was killed may take days to establish: investigators need to rely on DNA to formally identify the bodies found in the it was not just people in the canteen at that moment who were killed. Just a few kilometres away was Ravi Thakur, who worked in the hostel kitchen. He had gone out to deliver lunch boxes in other hostels around the city. His wife and their two-year-old daughter stayed behind as he heard the news, he rushed back but found utter chaos. Around 45 minutes had passed and the place was full of locals, firefighters, ambulance workers and Air India tried to look for his wife and child but couldn't find at the main hospital block, teachers are still trying make sense of the chaos."I used to teach these students and knew them personally. The injured students are still being treated in the hospital, and they are our priority at the moment," one professor at the college told the Ravi Thakur is still searching for his loved ones, even as his hopes fade fast.
CNN
13-06-2025
- CNN
See site of one of the deadliest plane crashes in India's history
A plane bound for London crashed into a residential area in Abhmedabad, India, shortly after taking off. Journalist Vedika Sud reports from the site of one of the deadliest plane crashes in India's history.
