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  • Woman dies after hijab gets caught in go-kart axle

    04/08/2010 4:30:36 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 30 replies · 1,046+ views
    perthnow.com.au ^ | April 8, 2010
    A WOMAN died when the Islamic head dress she was wearing was caught in the axle of a go-kart she was driving yesterday. The 26-year-old Muslim had been enjoying a day out with family at the Port Stephen's Go-Kart track in New South Wales when her hijab became caught up at high speed. Paramedics said the Sydney woman suffered severe neck injuries and went into cardiac arrest after the hijab's material tightened rapidly around her throat. Shocked onlookers freed her from the kart and paramedics managed to revive her before she was airlifted to Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital in a...
  • Muslim woman strangled by her burkha in freak go-kart accident

    04/08/2010 11:01:44 AM PDT · by 10Ring · 85 replies · 2,130+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | April 8, 2010 | Richard Shears
    A young Muslim woman had died after her burkha became snagged in a go-kart. The 24-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, died a terrifying death today when a fluttering part of her burkha became caught in the wheels of a go-kart she was driving near the town of Port Stephens, north of Sydney. The Muslim clothing the woman was wearing flew back as she sped around the track and part of it became entangled in the go-kart's wheels. She was strangled in a second and crashed the vehicle.
  • (14 Sep 1927) Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, tonight met a tragic death at Nice on the Riviera

    01/19/2006 3:49:26 AM PST · by montreal · 20 replies · 686+ views
    <p>PARIS, FRANCE — Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, tonight met a tragic death at Nice on the Riviera.</p> <p>According to dispatches from Nice Miss Duncan was hurled in an extraordinary manner from an open automobile in which she was riding and instantly killed by the force of her fall to the stone pavement.</p>