This is the heartbreaking moment a car almost crashes into a horse while making a risky overtaking attempt on a country road.

The near miss is one of several shocking incidents caught on camera and posted by Staffordshire Police after 45 deaths on their roads in the past 12 months.

The first-person footage, filmed on top of the horse, shows the animal trotting across the track when it encounters a white car.

The vehicle waits patiently for the horse to drive safely across the narrow road.

But then out of nowhere a big blue 4×4 car comes from behind and tries to speed past the horse on the same side of the road as the other vehicle.

The rider is forced to suddenly stop the animal while the 4×4 makes the risky overtake move.

The car narrowly avoids hitting the horse as it squeezes past and rides off into the distance.

The animal then continues to trot slowly and the rider appears to gesture in frustration at the dangerous maneuver.

The Highway Code says drivers must be ‘particularly careful’ when overtaking horses and must always give plenty of space.

Cars must also reduce their speed to less than 16 km/h and provide at least two meters of space.

The clip was released alongside other near misses in a montage of chilling incidents created by Staffordshire Police.

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One clip shows dashcam footage of a car entering the village of Forton on a busy road with vehicles traveling at high speed.

Then a speeding BMW suddenly veers off the side of the road and appears to be racing towards a head-on collision.

In the terrifying video, we see the BMW veer back into its lane at the last minute, narrowly missing the other car.

Another video shows how a driver almost caused a serious accident by driving in the wrong direction at a roundabout.

Dashcam video shows a vehicle driving through the roundabout when suddenly a large blue van appears and appears to be driving straight towards it.

A panicky swerve just barely avoids a traffic jam.

Some heartbreaking clips show cars completely ignoring red lights, including an incident that takes place just as someone is about to cross the road.

In another piece of footage, a cyclist is pedaling along a narrow road when he is almost hit by a van and trailer.

The large vehicle acts as if the cyclist is not there, leaving less than a meter between him and the woman cycling.

The reckless van also almost hits a passing light blue car as it races along at high speed.

A final bizarre but dangerous maneuver is shown when a pickup-style Ford tries to avoid a traffic jam but ends up driving onto the sidewalk.

The car, stuck behind a white truck, mounts the curb and begins driving along the sidewalk to overtake the vehicle.

Fortunately, there were no pedestrians in the way and the vehicle avoided mowing down civilians.

Police released the collection of terrifying clips following a series of road-related deaths in the past year.

A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police added: ‘Over the past year we have seen a high number of fatalities on roads across the county, with 45 people sadly losing their lives.

“Every road death is a tragedy and something we want to avoid.

‘With our new road safety campaign Look Again we want to emphasize that as motorists we all have the opportunity to make our roads safer by taking simple actions.

‘Whether you look at other road users before approaching an intersection, adjust your speed when driving in a busy city center, or take a moment to check a maneuver before you do it, these actions can help you saving lives – and those of other road users.’

• The front of a Volvo lies crumpled against the outside of the royal residence in Berkshire

By Mark Duell

Published: 5:26 AM EDT, March 12, 2024 | Updated: 7:01 AM EDT, March 12, 2024

The U.S. military’s V-22 Osprey has been cleared to fly again, three months after an “unprecedented” part defect led to the deaths of eight service members in a crash in Japan, Naval Air Systems Command announced Friday.

The crash in Japan was the second fatal accident in three months and the fourth since March 2022, killing a total of 20 soldiers.

Among them was Marine LCpl. Evan Strickland, 19, who died in an Osprey crash in June 2022, when the MV-22 he was in crashed into the California dessert during a training flight.

Last November, eight Air Force Special Operations Command soldiers were killed when a CV-22B Osprey crashed off the coast of the Japanese island of Yakushima. to a rare fleet-wide grounding of hundreds of Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy Ospreys.

Before approving the Osprey, which can fly like an airplane and then convert into a helicopter, officials said they paid more attention to the proprotor gearbox, placed new restrictions on how it can be flown and had added maintenance inspections and requirements that gave them confidence that it could be done. return safely to the flight.

Officials briefing reporters on Wednesday ahead of the lifting of flight restrictions said they quickly grounded the entire fleet in December as it became clear that the way the Osprey component failed in that crash was something they had not done before. had seen on the tiltrotor aircraft.

Although officials did not identify the specific component because the Air Force’s crash investigation remains open, they said they now have a better — but not complete — understanding of why it failed.

“This is the first time we’ve seen this particular component fail in this way. And so this is unprecedented,” said Marine Corps Col. Brian Taylor, V-22 joint program manager at Naval Air Systems Command, or NAVAIR, which is responsible for the service-wide V-22 program.

However, the Defense Department’s decision to go back on the run before the conclusion of separate congressional investigations into the Osprey program drew criticism from the chairman of the House Oversight Committee.

“The DoD is lifting the ground order on the Osprey despite providing the Oversight Committee and the American people with no answers about the safety of this aircraft,” said Representative James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky.

“Serious concerns remain, including the accountability measures put in place to prevent accidents, a general lack of transparency, the way maintenance and operational maintenance are prioritized, and how the DoD assesses risk.”

A former Osprey pilot familiar with the investigation confirmed that the part in question is part of the proprotor gearbox, a crucial system that includes transmissions and clutches that connect the Osprey’s engine to the rotor to turn it.

The services have done a “deep dive” into the proprotor gearbox, and the new safety measures “will address the issues we saw in that catastrophic event,” said the head of Air Force Special Operations Command, Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind , Wednesday. .

“I’m confident we now know enough to start flying again,” he said.

The proprotor gearbox system as a whole is a recurring problem area for the Osprey.

Service safety data obtained by The Associated Press shows dozens of cases in Marine Corps and Air Force Ospreys where power surges, sudden loss of oil pressure due to leaks, engine fires or chipping – where the metal components in the gearbox sometimes release dangerous metal chips – have damaged the proprotor gearbox during the flight, sometimes requiring an emergency landing.

Other components of the proprotor gearbox, including the sprag clutch and input spring, have been factors in previous crashes, and the services have made changes such as replacing those parts more frequently.

The services also look closely at the material the defective part is made of and how it is manufactured, Bauernfeind said. NAVAIR is also conducting further testing to help the services better understand why the component failed.

“It was a single component that failed in such a way that led to catastrophic consequences,” Bauernfeind said.

After testing is completed, he said, some of the operational safety controls now placed on the Osprey may be reduced “to give us more flexibility with the platform.”

The investigation, known as the Accident Investigation Board, will be made public and is expected to be completed within the next two months.

The proprotor gearbox failure was first reported by NBC News.

Japan’s government has also been briefed on the findings and the military’s plan to address the issue, the officials said. Japan also grounded its fleet of fourteen Ospreys after the crash.

Crews have now not flown for more than 90 days – a factor that will make their return to flight more dangerous.

The services said Wednesday they are taking a cautious approach that could take anywhere from 30 days to several months to retrain their crews before their Osprey squadrons can return to normal flying.

The Osprey has been in development for four decades, but only became operational in 2007.

The US military has flown the Osprey for approximately 750,000 hours, relying on its ability to quickly fly long distances as an aircraft and then convert to a helicopter to conduct operations in the Middle East and Africa, where some squadrons of the Marine Corps was given an exemption to ban the flight because it was so critical to the mission.

In China’s future needs, the military has made plans to use the Osprey in the Indo-Pacific to operate on islands that lack the airfields needed for traditional aircraft.

But it has also been a controversial design of the first generation of military tiltrotor technology, which has caused more than 14 major accidents killing 59 people and in some cases leading to the loss of the aircraft, which could cost between 70 and 70 people depending on the situation. and costs $90 million. on the variants.

Neither service is planning new production orders for the V-22, which is produced by a joint venture between Bell Flight and Boeing.

The Army has contracted with Bell Flight to purchase the Osprey’s successor, the Bell V-280 Valor, a tiltrotor like the Osprey, but smaller and with a major design change: the engines remain in a fixed, horizontal position.

On the Osprey, the rotors and the entire nacelle housing the engine and propeller gearbox tilt to a vertical position when flying in helicopter mode.

The Marine Corps operates the vast majority of Ospreys, with more than 240 currently assigned to its 17 squadrons.

Its aviation mission depends on the aircraft’s return to flight, and the Marine Corps aims to keep the Osprey in its fleet through 2050, said Marine Corps Brigadier General for Aviation. General Richard Joyce.

“We can’t take our eyes off the V-22 and the years it will last,” Joyce said.

However, the Air Force, which has the second-most Ospreys in the fleet with about 50 assigned to its special operations mission, suggested Wednesday that it might consider other options.

Early concepts for the Osprey date back to the 1980s, when the Iran hostage crisis revealed the need for an airframe that could move quickly and hover or land like a helicopter, Bauernfeind said.

And it meets that need quite well, but it’s still an older platform, he said. “I think it’s time for us to start talking about the next generation of capabilities that can replace what the V-22 does.”

By Stephen M. Lepore for Dailymail.Com and Associated Press

Published: 11:46 PM EST, March 4, 2024 | Updated: 02:52 EST, March 5, 2024

By Jamie Shapiro

Published: 08:43 EST, February 28, 2024 | Updated: 11:43 EST, February 28, 2024

This is the terrifying moment a tour boat crashed into an open-air tour boat in Miami earlier this month.

Twenty-nine passengers were injured, with one taken to hospital, as a result of the ‘horrific’ February 11 crash.

New footage of the collision, which took place around Fisherman’s Channel, shows the tour ship ‘Obelix’ speeding directly over the speedboat ‘Thriller’.

A group aboard the tour boat, which takes passengers on rides at speeds of 60 miles per hour, was visiting from New York, their attorney Thomas Graham. told NBC News.

Graham said his clients suffered broken bones, one lost consciousness and another suffered a traumatic brain injury. They are now seeking unspecified monetary damages.

The US Coast Guard confirmed that the Obelix was operating illegally without a permit.

“Both boats were simply not safe in this case,” Graham told NBC.

“They failed to keep a lookout, they failed to avoid a collision, they accelerated,” he explained.

Adding: ‘You can see from this video, which our client was fortunate enough to witness, that an extremely horrific collision occurred which, if safety was observed, was completely preventable.’

“When you go out on the water as a captain, especially if you take passengers for hire, you have to maintain a safe speed, look out and avoid collisions, and that didn’t happen here on either boat.”

Officials said they were deployed to the scene several kilometers from the seaport to pull survivors from the two boats to safety.

In total, more than 30 units responded to the crisis in the early afternoon, according to officials.

That response included an air rescue and several fire boats, along with U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Wildlife Commission vessels.

The patients were then taken back to shore several kilometers away from where the crash occurred, said Horacio Rodriguez, division chief of MDFR.

“Our clients are actually from New York, they came to Miami for a fun weekend and unfortunately they had this terrible accident,” said Eric J. Mausner, who also represents the victims.

He added, “It appears the charter boat boned the Thriller boat, but the Thriller boat may have gone into the path of the charter boat,” Masuner said.

Adding: ‘We need to do more research.’

“We believe that both are liable and that both failed to follow the rules of navigation,” Graham agreed.

The cause of the crash is under investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

LUKE LITTLER was defeated by Callan Rydz in the quarter-finals of Players Championship 3.

The 17-year-old went all the way in Players Championship 1 in Wigan last week.

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But he couldn't repeat his performance today in Leicester.

Littler won in four rounds, beating Keane Barry 5-3, followed by Cameron Menzies, Kevin Doets and Dirk van Duijvenbode.

However, he came unstuck against world number 33 Rydz, falling 6-4 to the Geordie at the Mattioli Arena.

Rydz enjoyed a brilliant day at work after making an incredible comeback to beat Daryl Gurney.

The 25-year-old trailed Gurney 5-0 before winning six in a row.

Rydz continued his momentum against Littler by sprinting to a 3-1 lead.

Littler continued to fight and you could tell he was getting frustrated with his own performance.

His opponent won the match 6-4 and booked a place in the semi-finals against Gary Anderson.

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Littler will be back in action on Thursday in week four of the Premier League darts in Newcastle.

He will face Peter Wright in the quarter-finals, with both men having knocked themselves out at that stage last week in Glasgow.

The 53-year-old Wright was defeated 6-2 by Michael van Gerwen, after which the Dutchman won the entire match.

Littler, meanwhile, was eliminated 6-5 by Gerwyn Price.

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Uttar Pradesh: At least five people were burnt alive in a collision between a car and a bus on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathuraon on Monday.

Mathura: A gruesome accident took place in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh in which five people traveling in a car were burnt alive after their vehicle collided with a passenger bus on Monday. The incident took place on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura's Mahavan when the bus went out of control and crashed into a divider. The deceased persons were traveling in the Swift Dzire car, which hit the bus from behind. The collision was so violent that a fire broke out in the bus after it hit the partition wall.

Police and fire brigade arrived on the scene after inquiring about the accident.

Video from the scene of the accident shows both the bus and car were destroyed by fire as thick, black smoke billowed out.

The passengers in the bus somehow managed to escape from the vehicle but the five persons trapped inside the car were charred to death, a senior police official said. “Preliminary investigation shows that the bus lost control and hit the divider after the tire burst,” Mathura Superintendent of Police Shailesh Pandey said.

“One of the victims has been identified and we are trying to identify other passengers,” he added.

(Remark: This is a developing story and further details will be added.)