9 Selfies Taken Moments Before Death

Proof that the self indulgent act of selfie taking can be fatal.

By RobynHitchcock

Published 9 years ago

Proof that the self indulgent act of selfie taking can be fatal.

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Xenia Ignatyeva took a selfie from a bridge 28 feet off the ground to impress her friends. The 17-year-old Russian girl lost her balance and fell on a cable, which tragically electrocuted her.

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In December of 2012 Mexican pop star Jenni Rivera and her entourage took this selfie right before taking off on a private jet which sadly crashed and left no survivors.

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On April 26, 2014 Courtney Sanford posted this picture of her reacting to the Pharrel Williams song 'Happy' while driving through North Carolina seconds later she crashed into a truck and the accident proved to be fatal.
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This is a selfie snapped by a famous Puerto Rican reggaetn musician Jadiel, uploaded to Instagram moments before he had a fatal motorcycle crash in New York in May, 2014.

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Gary Slok and his mother took this selfie minutes before taking off from Amsterdam on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in July, 2014.
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21-year old Oscar Otero Aguilar lost his life when he tried to take a selfie with a gun for his Facebook page in July of 2014. The Mexican gun enthusiast accidentally shot himself in the head and didn't survive.
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A 13-year-old girl named Karen Hernndez wanted to snap a selfie on the banks of the El Tunal river in Durango, Mexico. Unfortunately she fell into the river and drowned firefighters recovered her body in July.

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In March 2014 a 21-year-old man died in Jan, Spain by electrocution when he climbed to the top of a movie train to take a selfie.
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These two women wanted to take a selfie while singing karaoke in their car . . . The Iranian girls stopped watching the road to record this video and crashed into another car. They survived and took another selfie on the way to the hospital.
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A Polish couple on vacation in Portugal tried to take a selfie on the edge of a cliff on August 10, 2014 . . . they both fell to their death.

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Xenia Ignatyeva took a selfie from a bridge 28 feet off the ground to impress her friends. The 17-year-old Russian girl lost her balance and fell on a cable, which tragically electrocuted her.