freak accident

Example Sentences

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In a freak accident, he injured his neck when a wave caused him to flip and hit the sand in Langland Bay, Swansea.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

In a freak accident, Steve Irwin died after being pierced through the heart by a usually chill stingray while filming an underwater documentary in a lagoon off the Great Barrier Reef.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

A North Lanarkshire woman who nearly died in a freak accident in Bali has returned to the Indonesian island just seven months after the crash.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

“This is a freak accident that my family and I are trying to wrap our heads around and we also have 4 girls at home who we still need to care for,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025

I guess they would have kept on fighting till they leveled the house to the ground if it hadn’t been for a freak accident.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson