Number 9 Lauren Kaye Scott In June of 2017, an adult film
actress was arrested for hitting a man with whom she was involved in an intimate relationship.
23-year-old Lauren Kaye Scott, professionally known as Dakota Skye, was at the home of boyfriend
Robert Anderson, in Pinellas Park, Florida. They’d reportedly been seeing each other
for roughly six months even though Las Vegas marriage records indicated that, at the time,
Scott was married to agent Zachary Lecompte-Goble. After she and Anderson had had intercourse,
the former became angry that Scott wasn’t paying attention to him and wouldn’t get off her phone.
An argument ensued that culminated with the adult actress striking him in the face with
an open right hand, splitting open his bottom lip. He called the authorities and Scott was arrested,
listing the adult industry as her employer in the resulting affidavit. She was charged with
misdemeanor domestic battery and released on her own recognizance but the charges were ultimately
dropped. It’s unclear if drugs or alcohol had been involved in the incident, but Scott was known to
have struggled with severe addiction. A few years after the battery incident, on June the 8th of
2021, she called friends to say that she was going to become a Hells Angels biker because the police
and the Mafia were after her. She reportedly asked them for a place to stay on the night but everyone
refused her. The woman, who’d appeared in over 300 films and had once been among the top searches on
adult websites, was found dead the following day in a stranger’s RV on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The
cause of her passing remained undetermined as of the latest updates on the matter.
Number 8 New Jersey Woman
An unnamed New Jersey woman took a hard fall in June of 2017 as she was walking on the street in
Plainfield and got distracted by her cell phone. The 67-year-old woman approached basement doors
which had been left open for gas line repairs. The woman kept looking at her phone and didn’t turn to
avoid them. She flipped over a door and plunged head-first roughly six feet into the basement.
The woman, whose son claimed, suffered from poor eyesight, was pulled out on a stretcher
by fire crews. She was reported to have sustained serious injuries in the fall but was subsequently
pronounced as being in stable condition. Number 7 Charlotte Buesden
An inquest into the traffic collision death of an English woman proposed, in early 2022, that
she’d lost control of her vehicle while watching an episode of a reality TV show on her cell phone.
On August the 23rd of the previous year, Charlotte Buesden was travelling on a busy road in Kemsley,
Kent, in her Nissan Qashqai. At around 7:30 am, shortly after dropping her son off at school,
Buesden veered into oncoming traffic. A lorry driver, which the inquest concluded had had
no chance of avoiding the 28-year-old’s Nissan, crashed into her. Buesden succumbed to a severe
skull fracture in the aftermath. Her phone was found attached to a magnetic clip on the dashboard
and displaying an error message which indicated that the device had become disconnected from an
episode of Love Island. Dashcam footage from the lorry was of poor quality, according to
the authorities, but it did appear to show that Buesden had been looking in the direction of her
phone and then moving her arm towards where it had been mounted. It was thus suspected
that she hadn’t been paying attention while driving because she’d been watching the show.
Number 6 Sarah Fullard On June the 3rd of 2021, English woman
Sarah Fullard had finished assembling a flat-pack coffee table in the garden of her home in Hull,
East Yorkshire. A neighbor later recounted seeing Fullard at work and how she appeared to be
“excited she had managed to put it up herself”. The 42-year-old reportedly decided to celebrate
the completed project by pouring herself a few drinks. When the unnamed neighbor looked over
the fence once more, he saw her slumped over the coffee table and immediately called the emergency
services. Fullard was subsequently pronounced dead and a post-mortem found the cause to have been
“positional asphyxia”. It was determined that at some point the woman had tripped over the same
coffee table she’d previously assembled. She was knocked unconscious in the fall and ended up in
a position that rendered her unable to breathe. The examination found that Fullard had moderate
to severe alcohol intoxication but, although it was regarded as increasing the risk of a fall,
alcohol wasn’t listed as the primary factor in the accident. Additionally, Fullard’s liver
was reported as being in healthy condition, suggesting she’d never been a heavy drinker.
Number 5 Tejas Patel 24-year-old Tejas Patel died
in January of 2015, after accidentally stepping in front of a train at the Morningside station,
in Auckland, New Zealand. Patel had gotten off a passenger train while reportedly looking into his
cell phone and as another train was approaching from the opposite direction. It was below the
maximum line speed at the time while barriers and warnings were reportedly working accurately.
Seemingly unaware of his surroundings, Patel walked from the platform through an unguarded
opening and, in doing so, ended up directly in the path of the oncoming train. He was struck
and killed instantly. In the tragedy’s aftermath, Patel’s mother asked for enhanced safety measures
at the country’s rail crossings while Auckland's Indian community raised $10,000 for Patel’s father
to accompany his body back to India. A report from the Transport Accident Investigation Commission
found that the rail operators and providers had to take cell phone use into their risk assessment
when designing or implementing rail safety. Number 4 Craig Harding
60-year-old English woman Marilyn McKnight was left with life-changing injuries following a
devastating car accident that took place on Mother’s Day, 2015. She’d been travelling in
a Ford Ka with her son and daughter-in-law to visit her elderly mother. Craig Harding,
aged 44, was behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Polo and not paying attention to the road in
front because he was looking at an accident on the other side of the A19, near Hutton Henry,
County Durham. In doing so, Harding failed to notice that the cars in front had slowed down and
slammed into the back of the Ford at considerable speed, nearly toppling it on its roof.
Much like Harding, McKnight’s family wasn’t reported as being in life-threatening condition
but the woman received extensive treatment at the scene prior to being airlifted to a hospital.
McKnight became permanently blind in one eye and sustained severe spinal injuries that rendered her
unable to walk and only have minimal movement in her arms. Police subsequently released a
video of the harrowing crash in an effort to raise awareness to the dangers of being
distracted at the wheel. Harding, who admitted he’d been “momentarily distracted” was charged
with causing serious injury by dangerous driving and sentenced to 10 months in prison.
Number 3 Elena Gladkikh On a Sunday morning, in September of 2016,
married beauty consultant Elena Gladkikh and her lover were having drinks while watching
the sunrise on the roof of her Midtown Manhattan apartment building. The pair got locked out at
some point and, after exhausting all avenues for regaining access, 27-year-old Gladkikh called
her husband to let her back inside. As she waited and as her date was hiding on the roof, Gladkikh
reportedly dangled her legs over a ledge. The woman, who was reported as inebriated at the time,
then lost her footing and fell from the five-story building at 449 West 37th Street. The New York
Post reported that when Gladkikh’s husband eventually made his way to the roof he was told
that she’d fallen by the other man. Gladkikh’s body became trapped between two buildings and
the fire department had to borrow a ladder from a porter to reach her. Gladkikh, who’d only been
wearing a brassiere and underwear when rescuers found her, was subsequently pronounced dead at
Bellevue Hospital. In the immediate aftermath, the woman’s distraught husband told a media outlet
that he was scrambling to get in touch with his late spouse’s relatives in her native Russia.
Number 2 Uroko Onoja An argument within a polygamous marriage
ended in the death of a Nigerian man, in the summer of 2012. In the early hours of the morning,
Uroko Onoja returned to his home in Ugbugbu, Ogbadibo, after spending some time at a local bar.
He headed to the bedroom with only the youngest of his six wives and they became intimate.
The other women flew into a fit of collective rage because they weren’t receiving the same
type of attention. They reportedly burst into the bedroom and set upon Onoja with knives and sticks,
demanding he have intercourse with each of them as well. According to Nigeria’s Daily Post,
the man had attempted to resist the demands of his wives but was ultimately overpowered.
He was forced to perform as ordered with four of the women, in succession. However,
as the fifth was making her way to bed, Onoja stopped breathing. The businessman, described as
a philanthropist and a positive contributor to his community, couldn’t be resuscitated. His youngest
wife subsequently told the authorities that the others had fled into the forest upon realizing
their husband was unresponsive. Local media would later report that he’d been abused to death and at
least two of his wives were arrested. Number 1 Accident in Oklahoma
Six Oklahoma teenagers were killed in a car crash, on March the 22nd of 2022,
after the vehicle in which they’d been travelling was struck by a semi-truck
at a notoriously dangerous intersection, near Tishomingo. Madison Robertson was driving while
accompanied by five friends in a 2015 Chevrolet Spark, a small car only meant to seat four.
The passengers were identified as Gracie Machado, Brooklyn Triplett, Austin Holt, Addison Gratz
and Memory Wilson. Robertson approached the stop sign at an intersection locally known as the “Y”,
found at a 90-degree curve of U.S. 377 from east to south. The junction had long been criticized
by residents for how easy it was for drivers to pull into oncoming traffic, but their pleas for
changes had largely gone unanswered. In spite of the well-known dangers, reports suggested
that Robertson hadn’t paid adequate attention to the oncoming truck while also reportedly rolling
through the stop sign. 51-year-old Burneyville man Valendon Burton was driving the semi, which
was hauling rocks at the time. He plowed into the Chevrolet and the devastating impact mangled the
smaller car, ripping its doors off and throwing it roughly 300 feet from the intersection. Four of
the teens, including Robertson, died at the scene while the remaining two passed away at a local
hospital. A review by the National Transportation Safety Board found that Robertson had cannabis
in her system and that she’d also violated the law by driving on an intermediate license while
not having a fully-qualified driver aged 21 or older supervising her. Burton, who didn’t suffer
any serious injuries in the crash, hadn’t been charged in connection to it as of early May, 2022.
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