9 Selfies Taken Moments Before Death

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

By RobynHitchcock

Published 10 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.