A Chinese man has driven his pick-up truck more than 200 metres on two steel cables 20 metres high.

It took Liu Suozhu of Korla city, Xinjiang, 15 minutes to drive from one hill to another on the twin tightrope wires.

"I just wanted to do something special," he told the Tianshan Network.

As a safety precaution, the four corners of the truck were attached by four thinner cables to the two main cables.

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An eight-year-old boy called 911 on his drunk-driving mom, while in the speeding car with his little sister! Thankfully, no one was hurt and police was able catch her based on the road information the boy gave the dispatcher and call tracking technology.

Here’s the recorded 911 call: Link

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Police said a local man who was legally blind died after crashing his all-terrain vehicle in Columbiana County.

The crash happened on Sunday evening just south of Lisbon. Columbiana County sheriff’s deputies said Charles Hoyle, 34, of Boardman, was socializing with friends when he made the decision that ended his life.Chief Deputy Allen Haueter said Hoyle was with two friends behind a home on Steubenville Pike Road when he asked one of his friends if he could ride his ATV.

While Hoyle was considered legally blind, he did at one point have a driver’s license, but Haueter said that license expired in 2000.The deputy said the men helped Hoyle onto the ATV anyway and warned him to go slow, but Hoyle didn't listen.

“When the men put Mr. Hoyle on there, he took off, full acceleration,” said Haueter. “And they were screaming at him to hold back and stop, and they couldn't catch up to him. Then he struck a smaller tree and he hit a larger one head-on.”

Deputies said Hoyle was thrown from the ATV and died of a head injury at the scene.Haueter also said Hoyle's friends admitted they all had been drinking prior to the accident.

“They advised they'd been drinking but they weren't at a point of no return,” said Haueter. "It shouldn't have happened. It's a tragic accident."

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• "A pedestrian hit me and went under my car."

   

• "The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intention."

   

• "I had been learning to drive with power steering. I turned the wheel to what I thought was enough and found myself in a different direction going the opposite way."

   

• "Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have."

   

• "No one was to blame for the accident, but it never would have happened if the other driver had been alert."

• "The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him."

   

• "I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car."

• "He applied brake and his car stopped, I applied brake and my car didn't stop."

   

• "The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him."

   

• "An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished."

• "I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him."

   

• "To avoid hitting the bumper of the car in front, I struck the pedestrian."

   

• "When I could not avoid a collision, I stepped on the gas and crashed into the other car."

   

• "I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way."

   

• "In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole."

   

• "As I approached the intersection, a stop sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before. I was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident."

   

• "The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end."

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