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Scottish Sun
a day ago
- General
- Scottish Sun
Boy, 4, dies in horror pickup truck crash with two injured including baby girl
One victim remains in hospital with serious injuries SMASH TRAGEDY Boy, 4, dies in horror pickup truck crash with two injured including baby girl – as pair arrested A FOUR-year-old boy has died and two other people - including a baby girl - have been injured after two pickup trucks crashed down a country lane. Cops were called to reports of a collision involving two grey Ford Rangers on New Barn Road, Dartford, at around 9.30pm on Sunday. Advertisement Two men have been arrested in connection with the incident. All three victims, who were from the same vehicle, were taken to hospital. The four-year-old boy died at the hospital, while a 24-year-old man remains there in a critical condition, the force said. A one-year-old baby girl also received minor injuries from the incident. Advertisement Officers arrested a 27-year-old man from Darenth and a 53-year-old man from Swanley in connection with the incident yesterday. Both remain in custody. Anyone with information on the crash, including CCTV or dashcam footage, should contact Kent Police's Major Crime Unit via the Major Incident Public Portal or call the Major Crime Appeal Line on 01622 652006. Independent charity Crimestoppers can also be called anonymously on 0800 555111. Advertisement A Kent police spokesperson said: "Detectives investigating a collision in which a child has died and two people were injured have made two arrests. "Kent Police was called just before 9.30pm on Sunday 1 June 2025 to reports of a collision involving two vehicles on New Barn Road, #Dartford. "Three people from the same vehicle were taken to hospital. A four year old boy died at the hospital and a 24 year old man remains in hospital in a critical condition. A one year old girl received minor injuries. "On Monday 2 June 2025, officers arrested two men in connection with the incident, a 27 year old from Darenth and a 53 year old from Swanley. Advertisement "They remain in custody while enquiries continue to establish the circumstances surrounding the collision. "Detectives would also like to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the collision involving two grey Ford Rangers. "Anyone with information which may assist the investigation, including CCTV or dashcam footage, is urged to contact the Major Crime Unit via the Major Incident Public Portal. "Alternatively call the Major Crime Appeal Line on 01622 652006 to leave contact details. Advertisement "You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or complete their online form."
ABC News
2 days ago
- General
- ABC News
SA Police launches Commissioner's Inquiry into Royston Park arrest incident
SA Police has launched a Commissioner's Inquiry after a man became unresponsive while being arrested last week in Adelaide's east. SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens told ABC Radio Adelaide the inquiry would be conducted "on top of" an investigation by Major Crime and the internal investigation section detectives currently underway into the incident on Payneham Road at Royston Park in the early hours of May 29. The 42-year-old Modbury Park man remains in a critical condition in hospital. Commissioner Stevens said the inquiry would look at SAPOL's "policies, practices, procedures including our training in relation to responding to these types of incidents to make sure there are no opportunities for any other improvements or any failures in those elements". "It is significant, we don't call many commissioner's inquiries and that is where we have a major incident involving police activity and there's a need to be able to demonstrate that the actions of the police officers involved were appropriate in the circumstances and if not what were the factors that we need to address to make sure similar things don't occur again," he said. "Wherever there is a death in custody, it's virtually automatic that there's a Commissioner's Inquiry. "Given the significant injury this man has suffered as a result of his interaction with police, it is my assessment that we should be doing that level of inquiry." "People need to have confidence in us that we do out job as professionally and effectively as we can — that's the reason we're calling it [the inquiry]." Commissioner Stevens said he has viewed part of the body worn camera vision and the initial assessment was the officers involved "were acting in accordance with their training". He said eight officers responded to the incident and their body worn cameras were recording. He added all involved officers remain on active duty. When asked if the officers would be stood down during the inquiry, Commissioner Stevens said, "If there's anything throughout the process that indicates that that should occur, we change their duties, we don't stand them down so that we can manage that inquiry effectively". He said a Chief Superintendent had been allocated as the inquiry's senior investigating officer. In a statement last week, police allege the man "was assaulting a female" when they intervened. "While being restrained the man violently resisted police," SA Police alleged. "After being restrained he became unresponsive and police administered first aid until SAAS (SA Ambulance Service) arrived." The man's partner spoke with other media outlets about the incident. ABC has attempted to reach out to her.
ABC News
7 days ago
- Health
- ABC News
Man in hospital after becoming unresponsive during attempted arrest at Royston Park, police say
South Australian police say a man is in hospital after he became unresponsive while being arrested in Adelaide's east early this morning, with the incident now under said they saw an incident occurring between a man and a woman on Payneham Road, Royston Park, around 2:45am on Thursday say as they attempted to arrest the man, he "became unresponsive". Ambulance officers have taken the man to hospital and Major Crime and Professional Standards detectives are investigating. "The investigation is in the early stages and is ongoing," SA Police said in a statement. "More information will be released later this morning." Payneham Road is closed between Lambert Road and Lower Portrush Road and diversions are in place.
News.com.au
25-05-2025
- News.com.au
Forensic pathologist reveals the absolute worst ways to die
WARNING: GRAPHIC Roger Byard – whose colleagues refer to him as 'Doctor Death' – has investigated some of the most traumatic deaths in Australia. He's also investigated some of the strangest. The forensic pathologist told the latest episode of Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers podcast about his baptism of fire into the profession, being called out to investigate the infamous 'bodies in barrels' Snowtown murders on his first week on call. 'I was called by the head of Major Crime one night … and I was so green,' he explained. 'I didn't realise that when the head of Major Crime calls you, it's pretty serious.' The Snowtown murders were a series of murders committed by John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner, and James Spyridon Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, in and around Adelaide. A fourth person, Mark Haydon, was convicted of helping to dispose of the bodies. The trial was one of the longest and most publicised in Australian legal history, with Byard's forensic evidence contributing to the convictions. But while Snowtown may have been one of the most publicised cases Byard has worked on, it wasn't the most bizarre. 'I've been collecting animal deaths,' he told Jubelin. 'Deaths from dogs, snakes, sharks, roosters, mackerel.' You read that right. Mackerel. 'There was a bloke fishing in the Darwin Harbour and sharks were nearby, so this 25 kilogram mackerel jumped out of the water and sideswiped him,' he recalled. 'Wrong place, wrong time,' he continued. But what about the rooster? 'There was a little old lady out the back collecting eggs,' he explains. 'Roosters, I understand, are nasty creatures. It went for her, and she had varicose veins and it just pecked her leg.' Byard explains that he's had a number of deaths come across his desk where people with varicose veins have experienced minor trauma and ended up dying. 'One case was a cat scratch,' he said. 'People don't realise, and this is the reason that I actually publicise this stuff, it's not because it's bizarre and weird, it's to let people know that if you got varicose veins and you get a small hole, you need to lie down and put your finger over it and elevate it and you'll survive. What [people] tend to do is wander around panicking and they bleed to death – completely unnecessary deaths.' 'But yeah,' adds Byard, 'never trust a rooster.' And while the stranger elements of Byard's job might be headline-making, there's a darker trauma that lingers. 'Nobody talks about post-traumatic stress with forensic pathologists, and yet every month of every year we go out to scenes,' he explained sadly. 'We see dismembered bodies, incinerated bodies. We see children that are being starved to death, vehicle accidents, dreadful scenes. And we have to not only immerse ourselves in it, we have to then describe it in great detail, understand it, then we have to present it to a jury and sometimes have our credibility attacked while we're doing it.' He explained that while his trauma has built up with each case he's worked, so too has his understanding that he isn't always going to find the answers. 'When I first started, I thought I was gonna find the causes of all these deaths – I was gung-ho,' he said. 'And then as I got further and further into my career, I realised that, no, I'm not going to find answers all the time. And I'm going to have to sit down with families and say, 'I have no idea'. All I can say to them is, 'it was nothing that you did'. ' And also, a lot of the time they just want to meet the person that looked after their baby between the time when they saw the baby last, and when they saw their baby at the funeral home.'
New York Post
24-05-2025
- New York Post
‘Doctor death' forensic pathologist reveals the worst ways people can die: ‘Never trust a rooster'
Roger Byard – whose colleagues refer to him as 'Doctor Death' – has investigated some of the most traumatic deaths in Australia. He's also investigated some of the strangest. The forensic pathologist told the latest episode of Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers podcast about his baptism of fire into the profession, being called out to investigate the infamous 'bodies in barrels' Snowtown murders on his first week on call. 'I was called by the head of Major Crime one night … and I was so green,' he explained. 'I didn't realize that when the head of Major Crime calls you, it's pretty serious.' The Snowtown murders were a series of murders committed by John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner, and James Spyridon Vlassakis between August 1992 and May 1999, in and around Adelaide. A fourth person, Mark Haydon, was convicted of helping to dispose of the bodies. The trial was one of the longest and most publicized in Australian legal history, with Byard's forensic evidence contributing to the convictions. 3 Roger Byard revealed the most gruesome cases he's worked on. AJ_stock_photos – But while Snowtown may have been one of the most publicized cases Byard has worked on, it wasn't the most bizarre. 'I've been collecting animal deaths,' he told Jubelin. 'Deaths from dogs, snakes, sharks, roosters, mackerel.' You read that right. Mackerel. 'There was a bloke fishing in the Darwin Harbour and sharks were nearby, so this 25 kilogram mackerel jumped out of the water and sideswiped him,' he recalled. 'Wrong place, wrong time,' he continued. 3 One case he worked on involved a fatal cat scratch. pridannikov – But what about the rooster? 'There was a little old lady out the back collecting eggs,' he explains. 'Roosters, I understand, are nasty creatures. It went for her, and she had varicose veins and it just pecked her leg.' Byard explains that he's had a number of deaths come across his desk where people with varicose veins have experienced minor trauma and ended up dying. 'One case was a cat scratch,' he said. 'People don't realize, and this is the reason that I actually publicize this stuff, it's not because it's bizarre and weird, it's to let people know that if you got varicose veins and you get a small hole, you need to lie down and put your finger over it and elevate it and you'll survive. What [people] tend to do is wander around panicking and they bleed to death – completely unnecessary deaths.' 'But yeah,' adds Byard, 'never trust a rooster.' 3 'Roosters, I understand, are nasty creatures. It went for her, and she had varicose veins and it just pecked her leg,' he said. SE Viera Photo – And while the stranger elements of Byard's job might be headline-making, there's a darker trauma that lingers. 'Nobody talks about post-traumatic stress with forensic pathologists, and yet every month of every year we go out to scenes,' he explained sadly. 'We see dismembered bodies, incinerated bodies. We see children that are being starved to death, vehicle accidents, dreadful scenes. And we have to not only immerse ourselves in it, we have to then describe it in great detail, understand it, then we have to present it to a jury and sometimes have our credibility attacked while we're doing it.' He explained that while his trauma has built up with each case he's worked, so too has his understanding that he isn't always going to find the answers. 'When I first started, I thought I was gonna find the causes of all these deaths – I was gung-ho,' he said. 'And then as I got further and further into my career, I realized that, no, I'm not going to find answers all the time. And I'm going to have to sit down with families and say, 'I have no idea'. All I can say to them is, 'it was nothing that you did'. ' And also, a lot of the time they just want to meet the person that looked after their baby between the time when they saw the baby last, and when they saw their baby at the funeral home.'
