Saturday, June 23, 2007

Short News


Toddler survives ride on top of camper
http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20070616-20421300-bc-us-wildride.xml
GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 16 (UPI) -- A 3-year-old Georgia girl survived a 5-mile ride on top of her father's camper and a fall from the vehicle.
Christa Whitlow was hospitalized for observation, but doctors said she appeared to have suffered no more than bad abrasions on her arms, legs and face, WXIA-TV in Atlanta reported.
Christa's mother, Colleen Whitlow, said she and her husband almost always check their vehicles before they drive off. But she said that on this occasion, her husband, after walking around the camper, realized he had left his cell phone in the house and went in to get it.
Brothers Killed in Separate Crashes Hours Apart
http://www.newsdaily.com/TopNews/UPI-1-20070612-13303100-bc-us-brothers.xml
Police in the US state of Maine have opened an investigation into the deaths of two brothers, Adrian and Wallace Basford. The pair, aged 52 and 48 years old respectively, died within hours of each other in traffic accidents on Saturday night.

Adrian Basford was killed when his motorbike left a country road and crashed. Wallace was killed when the van he was driving in crashed into a wall just after a bridge. The brothers were both from Winterport, in Maine.

Now that's weird !
Brothers, both died, in car accidents. That is unbelievable. The odds of that happening again must be phenomenal!

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