Road casualty, dead barn owl on road in winter, Scotland, UK, Europe

Electrocution burn banding to wing of male black flying-fox (Pteropus alecto) on a power line fatality, Hopkins Creek, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Euthanased female grey headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) with self mutilation injuries, Midginbil, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

Unviable damage to right wing of grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) following barbed wire entanglement, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

pollution: guillemot in oil slick. sands of forvie nnr, aberdeenshire, scotland

Unviable damage to right wing of grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) following barbed wire entanglement, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, Pacific

A sign warning motorcyclists of dangerous riding at Devils Bridge in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Love Parade 2010, spray chalk outline of a person killed in a stampede, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Love Parade 2010, spray chalk outlines of two people killed in a stampede, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Robert Capa memorial stone, Memorial des Reporters, memorial for fallen journalists and photographers in action, opened 2006, Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe

Collision of two cars and a motorcycle, one person was killed, B327 federal highway near Waldesch, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

Australian outback roadside memorial shrines, North Western Australia, Australia

Monument on the historic waterfront of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

At the memorial to Tom Simpson, first doping fatality at the Tour de France, Mont Ventoux, Provence, France

Wayside cross, Iquique, Region de Tarapaca, Chile, South America

Memorial des Reporters, memorial for fallen journalists and photographers in action, opened 2006, Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe

A sign for recently renamed U.S. Highway 666 stands alongside the road south of Cortez, Colo. Citizen and Native American groups petitioned the federal government to change the number of the road for fear the devilish connection contributed to accident and fatality rates on the highway.