This is a list of notable people who have been killed in road accidents. This list does not include those who were killed competing on closed road events whether in motorsport or in competitive cycling events.

n.b: Passengers of a vehicle are indicated in italics on the "mode of transport field".

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Notability	Mode of transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details	Source
	1975	2007	Japanese	Motorcycle racer	Scooter	Yamaha XP 500 TMAX Yamaha TMAX The Yamaha XP 500 TMAX is a scooter manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company. It was introduced in Europe in 2001 with the second generation TMAX being released in 2008. The second generation TMAX was also released into the USA market for the 2009 model year....	Kawasaki, Kanagawa Kawasaki, Kanagawa is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama. It is the 9th most populated city in Japan and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area.... , Japan	Collision with a lorry, who made an illegal u-turn in front of him, when he was riding his motorcycle.
	1930	1989	British	Mathematician	Car
	1915	1958	Nigerian	Politician	Car
	1986	2009	American	Baseball pitcher	Car	Mitsubishi Eclipse Mitsubishi Eclipse The Mitsubishi Eclipse was a coupe that was in production since 1989 for left hand drive traffic markets. According to Mitsubishi, the car was named after an 18th century English racehorse which won 26 races, and has also been sold as the Eagle Talon and the Plymouth Laser captive imports through...	Fullerton, California Fullerton, California Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 135,161.It was founded in 1887 by George and Edward Amerige and named for George H. Fullerton, who secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...	A drunk driver ran a red light in his Toyota Sienna Toyota Sienna The Toyota Sienna is a family minivan currently manufactured by Toyota at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana in Princeton, Indiana, United States for the North American market. It replaced the first-generation Previa van in 1997 with a more conventional front wheel drive layout and shares a heavily...  minivan and hit the car in which Adenhart was a passenger, driving it into a light pole. Of the three other people in the car, the driver and one passenger died, and the other passenger survived an internal decapitation Internal decapitation Internal decapitation, atlanto-occipital dislocation, or orthopedic decapitation describes the rare medical condition in which the skull separates from the spinal column during severe head injury... . The drunk driver escaped on foot, but was quickly apprehended; he has since been convicted of three counts of second-degree murder.
	1954	1988	American	Professional wrestler	Car			Two other passengers in the vehicle he was riding — professional wrestlers Pat Kelly (Victor Arko) and Dave McKigney — died in the same accident, caused when the driver, Mike Kelly (William Arko), struck a moose on a highway near Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador Lewisporte, Newfoundland and Labrador Lewisporte is a town in central Newfoundland Island, Canada, with a population of 3,312. It is situated in a bay close to the mouth of the Exploits River. Lewisporte has an excellent port and related facilities that serve the many communities along Notre Dame Bay. Gander and its international... , Canada. It then spun into a tree at over 80 km/h.
	1921	2000	American	Actor, songwriter, author	Car		Encino, California	Died from a heart attack that was found to have resulted from a condition known as pericardial effusion Pericardial effusion Pericardial effusion is an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pericardial cavity. Because of the limited amount of space in the pericardial cavity, fluid accumulation will lead to an increased intrapericardial pressure and this can negatively affect heart function... . The accident caused a blood vessel in his chest to leak blood into the sac surrounding his heart. His death occurred several hours after the accident, from which he suffered no immediately apparent injuries.
	1946	1971	American	Guitarist	Motorcycle	Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson , often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression...	Macon, Georgia Macon, Georgia Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...	Allman lost control of his motorcycle when he tried to avoid an oncoming truck that unexpectedly stopped in the middle of an intersection while turning left in front of him. He was thrown from the motorcycle, which landed on him and skidded with him under it, resulting in fatal internal injuries.
	1938	1980	Russian	Writer	Car		Near Guadalajara, Spain Guadalajara, Spain Guadalajara is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain, and in the natural region of La Alcarria. It is the capital of the province of Guadalajara. It is located roughly 60 km northeast of Madrid on the Henares River, and has a population of 83,789...	Amalrik swerved out of his lane on a wet road and hit an oncoming truck. A piece of metal, most likely from the steering column, embedded in his throat, instantly killing him. His wife and the two other passengers in his car suffered only minor injuries.
	1966	1992		American football player	Stationary		Thibodaux, Louisiana Thibodaux, Louisiana Thibodaux is a small city in and the parish seat of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 14,431 at the 2000 census. Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux...	Andolsek was working in the front yard of his home when a semi-trailer truck Semi-trailer truck A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or articulated truck or articulated lorry, is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine , and a semi-trailer A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated truck...  ran off the highway and hit him.
	1916	1963		Country music singer	Car		Madison, Tennessee Madison, Tennessee Madison, Tennessee is a neighborhood in northeast Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. It is incorporated as part of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County....	Died in crash en route to funeral for Patsy Cline Patsy Cline Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s... .
	1967	2006	American	adult movie actress	Car
	1920	1966	Mexican	bullfighter	Car
	1955	1981	Canadian	ice hockey player	Car
	1943	1971	Bulgarian	footballer	Car
	1959	1994		son and heir of president of Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....	Car
Astrid of Sweden Astrid of Sweden Astrid of Sweden was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold III.-Early life:Princess Astrid of Sweden was born in Stockholm on 17 November 1905...	1905	1935		Queen of the Belgians	Automobile
	1926	1979	Irish	motorcycle racer	motorcycle
	1936	2000	French	actress	Automobile
	1970	2003	Estonian	cyclist	Bicycle

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Occupation	Mode of transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Christian Bakkerud Christian Bakkerud Christian Bakkerud was a Danish racing driver, who competed in the 2007 and 2008 GP2 Series seasons, albeit hindered by a recurrent back injury...	1984	2011	Danish	Retired racing driver	Car	Audi RS6 Audi RS6 The Audi RS6 quattro, commonly referred to as the RS6, is the highest performing version, and top-of-the-line specification of the Audi A6, positioned above the Audi S6...	Putney Heath near Wimbledon Common	Investigations ongoing
Harry Bamford Harry Bamford Henry Charles "Harry" Bamford was a professional footballer, who played for Bristol Rovers for his entire professional career...	1920	1958	England	Footballer	Motorcycle		Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...	Collided with a car
Maurice Banach Maurice Banach Maurice "Mucki" Banach was a German footballer.-Biography:Banach was the son of a German seaman and an American GI, and rose to become one of the most hopeful talents in 1980s German football....	1967	1991	German	Footballer	Car
Ian Bannen Ian Bannen Ian Bannen was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.-Early life and career:Bannen was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, the son of Clare and John James Bannen, a lawyer. Bannen served in the British Army after attending St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and Ratcliffe College,...	1928	1999	Scottish	Actor	Car
Gerhard Barkhorn Gerhard Barkhorn Lieutenant-General Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn , was the second most successful fighter ace of all time after fellow Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann...	1919	1983	German	World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace	Car
Roland Barthes Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...	1915	1980	French	Philosopher	Pedestrian
Jeff Batters Jeff Batters Jeffrey William Batters was a professional ice hockey defenceman who played 16 games in the National Hockey League in two seasons with the St. Louis Blues, from 1993 until 1995. Also played for the Kansas City Blades in the IHL.Batters died in the summer of 1996 from injuries sustained in a car...	1970	1996	American	Ice hockey player	Car
Chris Bell Chris Bell (musician) Christopher Branford "Chris" Bell was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s...	1951	1978	American	Big Star musician	Car	Triumph TR7 Triumph TR7 The Triumph TR7 is a sports car manufactured from September 1974 to October 1981 by the Triumph Motor Company in the United Kingdom. It was initially produced at the Speke, Liverpool factory, moving to Canley, Coventry in 1978 and then finally to the Rover plant in Solihull in 1980...
Brad Beckman Brad Beckman Bradley Scott Beckman was an American football tight end in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1988 NFL Draft. Beckman was killed in an...	1964	1989		American football player	Car
Lamont Bentley Lamont Bentley Lamont Bentley was an American actor and rapper. He was known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on Moesha and the series' spin-off The Parkers.-Career:...	1973	2005	American	Actor	Car
Liz Birt	1956	2005	American	Corporate, tax and health care attorney and lobbyist.	Automobile
J. Stuart Blackton J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...	1875	1941	American	Film producer
Bill Boaks Bill Boaks Lieutenant Commander William George Boaks DSC was a British Royal Navy officer who became an eccentric political campaigner for road safety. He died at the age of 81 as a result of a road traffic accident...	1904	1986	British	Political campaigner for road safety	Bus			Whilst exiting a bus
Marc Bolan Marc Bolan Marc Bolan was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist...	1947	1977	British	T.Rex musician	Automobile	Mini Mini The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...		Driver was girlfriend Gloria Jones Gloria Jones Gloria Richetta Jones is an American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She recorded the 1964 northern soul song, "Tainted Love", later a hit for the British synth-pop duo, Soft Cell. She was the girlfriend of glam rock artist Marc Bolan of the band T...
D. Boon D. Boon d. Boon born Dennes Dale Boon, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Active between 1978, when he joined The Reactionaries, and 1985, when he was killed in a van accident, Boon was best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the Californian punk rock trio Minutemen.-Youth:Dennes Boon...	1958	1985	American	The Minutemen musician	Van			Was sleeping on the van when it crashed
Luc Bourdon Luc Bourdon Luc Bourdon was a Canadian professional Ice Hockey Defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose, from 2006 until 2008...	1987	2008	Canadian	Ice hockey player	Motorcycle	Suzuki GSX-R1000 Suzuki GSX-R1000 The GSX-R1000 is a sport bike from Suzuki's GSX-R series of motorcycles. It was introduced in 2001 to replace the GSX-R1100 and is powered by a liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.-2001:...	Lamèque, New Brunswick Lamèque, New Brunswick Lamèque is a Canadian town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.A Francophone community, it is situated on Lamèque Island, off the northeastern tip of the Acadian Peninsula...
Peter "Possum" Bourne	1956	2003	New Zealand	Rally driver	Car	Subaru Forester Subaru Forester The Subaru Forester is an all-wheel drive crossover wagon manufactured since 1997 by Fuji Heavy Industries and sold under the Subaru brand...	Race to the Sky Race to the Sky The Silverstone Race to the Sky is an annual automobile and motorcycle hillclimb to the summit of a mountain. The race has been held every year since 1998 on two days over the Easter weekend...  track, Cardrona Cardrona, New Zealand Cardrona is the name of a locality, skifield and beer in New Zealand. Established as a gold rush township in the 1860s on the banks of the small river of the same name, it is known for its distinctive hotel of gold rush vintage which is on the opposite side of the river to the original township of... , New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...	During course inspection, Bourne collided head on with a competitor's Jeep Cherokee Jeep Cherokee (XJ) The Jeep Cherokee is a unibody compact SUV. It shared the name of the original full-size SJ model, but without a body-on-frame chassis, it set the stage for the modern SUV. Its innovative appearance and sales popularity spawned important imitators as other automakers began to notice that this...  who was later charged for dangerous driving
Dennis Brain Dennis Brain Dennis Brain was a British virtuoso horn player and was largely credited for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public...	1921	1957	British	Horn virtuoso	Car	Triumph TR2 Triumph TR2 The Triumph TR2 is a sports car which was produced by the Standard Motor Company in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1955, during which time 8,636 cars were produced....
Jaime Bravo Jaime Bravo Jaime Bravo was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. Bravo was known for death defying style and numerous relationships with women and Hollywood starlets.-Early life:...	1932	1970	Mexican	Matador	Automobile
Nino Bravo Nino Bravo Luis Manuel Ferri Llopis , better known by his stage name Nino Bravo, was a Spanish pop singer.-Early life:...	1944	1973	Spanish	Singer and songwriter	Car	BMW 2800 BMW New Six The BMW New Six is a line of six-cylinder luxury cars produced by the German automaker BMW from 1968 to 1977. The series was introduced as a response to the Mercedes-Benz-dominated large luxury car class and was very important in establishing BMW's reputation as a maker of sporting, luxury sedans....	Villarrubio Villarrubio Villarrubio is a municipality located in the province of Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 254 inhabitants.... , Cuenca
Gianni Brera Gianni Brera Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.-Biography:Brera was born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia, the son of Carlo, a tailor, and Marietta Ghisoni...	1919	1992	Italian	sports journalist and novelist	Car
Michel Brière Michel Briere Michel Edouard Brière was an NHL hockey player whose life and career was cut short due to an automobile accident in 1970.-Playing career:...	1949	1971	Canadian	NHL player	Car	Mercury Cougar	Quebec Route 117 Quebec route 117 Route 117 is a provincial highway within the Canadian province of Quebec, running between Montreal and the Quebec/Ontario border where it continues as Highway 66 east of Kearns, Ontario... , Val-d'Or	Crashed his car on May 15, 1970 and was ejected, suffering major head trauma. Died 11 months after the accident without regaining consciousness.
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...	1940	1975	German	Poet
Gladys Brockwell Gladys Brockwell Gladys Brockwell was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.-Early life:Born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a chorus girl who put her on stage at a very early age. By the time she reached her middle teens, she was already a veteran and...	1893	1929	American	Actress	Automobile
Herb Brooks Herb Brooks Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr. was an American ice hockey player and coach. He notably coached the United States' men's hockey team to a 4-3 upset of the heavily favored Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980...	1937	2003	American	Ice hockey coach, most notably of the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team Miracle on Ice The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22... .	Car		Interstate 35 Interstate 35 Interstate 35 is a north–south Interstate Highway in the central United States. I-35 stretches from Laredo, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border to Duluth, Minnesota, at Minnesota Highway 61 and 26th Avenue East. Many interstates used to have splits or spurs indicated with suffixed letters , but I-35...  in Washington County, Minnesota Washington County, Minnesota Washington County is a county established in 1849 in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, the population was 238,136. Its county seat is Stillwater.-History:...	Believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel. Was not wearing a seat belt.
Clifford Brown Clifford Brown Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings...	1930	1956		Jazz musician	Automobile
Jerome Brown	1965	1992	American	American football player	Car	Chevrolet Corvette ZR1	Brooksville, Florida Brooksville, Florida Brooksville is an incorporated city in Hernando County, Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Hernando County. It is a suburban city included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...	Lost control of his car at high speed and hit a power pole. His nephew, a passenger in the car, was also killed.
Jean Bugatti Jean Bugatti Jean Bugatti was an French/Italian automotive designer and test engineer.Born Gianoberto Maria Carlo Bugatti in Cologne, Germany, he was the eldest son of Ettore Bugatti. Soon after his birth the family moved to the village of Dorlisheim near Molsheim in Alsace where his father built the new...	1909	1939	French	Automotive designer	Car	Bugatti Type 57S Tank
Brandon Burlsworth Brandon burlsworth Brandon Vaughn Burlsworth was an offensive lineman for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team from 1996-1998...	1976	1999		American football player	Car
Cliff Burton Cliff Burton Clifford Lee "Cliff" Burton was an American musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the American heavy metal band Metallica....	1962	1986	American	Metallica Metallica Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...  bass guitarist	Tour bus		European route E4 European route E4 European route E 4 passes from north to south through Sweden from the border with Finland, total length . The Finnish part lies entirely within Tornio in northern Finland, and is actually only long...  in Ljungby Municipality Ljungby Municipality Ljungby Municipality is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden, where the town Ljungby is seat.In 1971 the City of Ljungby was amalgamated with the rural municipalities surrounding it, thus creating the present municipality. In 1974 a minor adjustment of the boundaries took place... , Sweden	Thrown out of window and crushed after the bus skidded off the road and landed on its side.

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(1970–2000), Cuban baseball player

• Albert Camus
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• Alexis Cohen
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• Eric Campbell
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• Cornelius Cardew
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• Cecilia (Spanish singer)
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   (1948–1976), real name Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, Spanish singer-songwriter
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• Chang Yu-sheng
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• Harry Chapin
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• Ernest Chausson
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• Steve Chiasson
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• Dugald Christie
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• Prince Christopher of Yugoslavia, (1960–1994)
• Bob Clark
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• Spencer Clark (1987–2006), NASCAR driver
• Eddie Cochran
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• Ludo Coeck
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• Brian Cole, (1979 c.–2001), American baseball player
• Bonar Colleano
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• Billy Collins
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• Rob Collins
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• Coluche
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• Amie Comeaux
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• Jim Connors
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• Pete Conrad
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   (1930–1999), American lunar astronaut (motorcycle accident)
• Dallas Cook
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• Gottfried von Cramm
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• Seymour Cray
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• Kenneth Craik
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• Tonya Crews (1938–1966), American model and Playboy Playmate (car)
• Bob Cryer
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• Alan Crosland
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• Laurie Cunningham
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• Pierre Curie
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  , run over by a horse-drawn vehicle
• Greg Curnoe
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Name	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Vitaly Daraselia Vitaly Daraselia Vitaly Kuhinović Daraselia was a Georgian football player.Born to a Georgian father and Abkhaz mother, Daraselia played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi and Soviet Union national team...	1957	1982	Soviet footballer
Betty Jack Davis Betty Jack Davis Betty Jack Davis was an American country music singer who was one half of the duet The Davis Sisters with Skeeter Davis, who was not related.-Biography:...	1932	1953	Country music singer; one half of The Davis Sisters The Davis Sisters (country) The Davis Sisters were an American country music duo consisting of two unrelated singers, Skeeter Davis and Betty Jack Davis. One of the original female country groups, they are best known for their 1953 No...	Car			Skeeter Davis Skeeter Davis Mary Frances Penick , better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Records. In the late '50s, she became a solo...  (no relation), the other half of The Davis Sisters, was seriously injured in the same crash. She recovered and went on to a successful recording career.
Jimmy Davis	1983	2003	Manchester United Manchester United F.C. Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...  footballer
James Dean James Dean James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...	1931	1955	American actor	Car	Porsche 550 Porsche 550 The Porsche 550 was a sports car produced by Porsche from 1953-1956.Inspired by the Porsche 356 which was created by Ferry Porsche, and some spyder prototypes built and raced by Walter Glöckler starting in 1951, the factory decided to build a car designed for use in auto racing. The model Porsche...  Spyder	near Cholame, California Cholame, California Cholame, California is an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. It sits within a mile of the San Andreas Rift Zone fault line at an elevation of 1,157 feet above sea level and is located at . Cholame is reached via State Route 41, just southwest of the junction of...
Mike Darr Mike Darr Michael Curtis Darr was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the San Diego Padres . His father, Mike Sr., pitched for the expansion Toronto Blue Jays in 1977. Brother Ryan played in the Detroit organization for many years before ending his baseball career...	1976	2002	American baseball player	Car		Peoria, Arizona Peoria, Arizona Peoria is a city in Maricopa and Yavapai counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. Located primarily in Maricopa County, it is a major suburb of Phoenix. According to 2010 Census Bureau releases, the population of the city is 154,065. Peoria is currently the sixth largest city in Arizona for land...
Roger Delgado Roger Delgado Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto was an English actor, best known for his role as the first Master in Doctor Who....	1918	1973	British actor	Car		Republic of Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	Died on location in Turkey while shooting the (never-completed) movie Bell of Tibet. Two Turkish film technicians were killed in the same crash.
Kazimierz Deyna Kazimierz Deyna Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish footballer, who played as an offensive midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation.-Early life:...	1947	1989	Polish footballer	Car	BMW BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...	San Diego, California San Diego, California San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...	1961	1997	member of British royal family	Car	1994 Mercedes-Benz S280 W140 Mercedes-Benz W140 The Mercedes-Benz W140 was a series of flagship vehicles manufactured by the German automotive company Mercedes-Benz. The car premiered at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1991, with the first examples rolling off the production line on August 6, 1991. Short and long wheelbase sedans were offered...	Pont de l'Alma Pont de l'Alma Pont de l'Alma is an arch bridge in Paris, crossing the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army on September 20, 1854....  road tunnel, Paris, France	Diana's companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the car, Henri Paul Henri Paul Henri Paul was the Deputy Head of Security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris. He was the driver at the time of the car accident at the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris that killed him along with Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was the sole survivor of... , were killed in the same crash; Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones survived. Further reading: Death of Diana, Princess of Wales Death of Diana, Princess of Wales On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's...

• Mike Dickin
  Mike Dickin
  Mike Dickin , was a late-night host on the British radio station talkSPORT. Dickin used to present the 1am to 6am slot at weekends on Talk Radio UK from 1995 to 2001. He returned filling in for James Whale during James' battle with kidney cancer...
  
   (1943–2006) British Radio DJ
• Lou DiMuro
  Lou DiMuro
  Louis John DiMuro was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1963 until his death.-Career:...
  
   (1932–1982), baseball umpire
• Bridget Driscoll
  Bridget Driscoll
  Bridget Driscoll was the first pedestrian victim of an automobile accident in the United Kingdom. As she and her teenage daughter May crossed the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London, she was struck by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used to...
  
   (1852–1896), one of the earliest recorded road accident victims
• Alfred Dobbs
  Alfred Dobbs
  Alfred James Dobbs was a British Labour Party politician and trade unionist. He is most notable for being the Member of Parliament who served the shortest term, since the Second World War — just one day....
  
   (1882–1945), British politician
• Ian Stuart Donaldson
  Ian Stuart Donaldson
  Ian Stuart Donaldson was a British Neo-Nazi singer, musician and songwriter, most known as the frontman of Skrewdriver, a British punk rock band that later became a white power rock band...
  
  , (1957–1993), controversial British pop star
• Françoise Dorléac
  Françoise Dorléac
  Françoise Dorléac was a French actress. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve, and was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort...
  
   (1942–1967) French film actress
• Piero Drogo
  Piero Drogo
  Piero Drogo was a racing driver and coachbuilder from Italy. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, debuting on September 4, 1960. He scored no championship points. He moved on to form a carrozzeria in Modena to service the thriving sports car industry there...
  
  , (1926–1973), racing driver and coachbuilder, Bologna, Ferrari 250 California (crashed into a broken down truck in a tunnel, both were unlit)
• Alexander Dubček
  Alexander Dubcek
  Alexander Dubček , also known as Dikita, was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia , famous for his attempt to reform the communist regime during the Prague Spring...
  
   (1921–1992), Slovak politician
• Gus Dudgeon
  Gus Dudgeon
  Angus Boyd Dudgeon , most commonly known as Gus Dudgeon was an English record producer, most notable for production of many of Elton John's recordings.-Early career:...
  
   (1942–2002), British record producer
• Fred Duesenberg
  Fred Duesenberg
  Frederick Samuel Duesenberg was a German-born American automobile pioneer designer, manufacturer and sportsman.-Life:...
  
   (1876–1932), American automobile pioneer designer and manufacturer
• Isadora Duncan
  Isadora Duncan
  Isadora Duncan was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and only later in her life...
  
   (1878–1929), American dancer
• Ryan Dunn
  Ryan Dunn
  Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American reality television personality and daredevil best known for being a member of the Jackass and Viva La Bam crew. He hosted Homewrecker and Proving Ground...
  
   (1977–2011), American reality television personality and daredevil
• Al Dvorin
  Al Dvorin
  Albert Dvorin was an American bandleader and talent agent who coined the phrase "Elvis has left the building."...
  
   (1923–2004), Elvis Presley concert announcer

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Name	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Edem Ephraim London Boys London Boys were a British/German dance pop duo composed of Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller...	1959	1995	singer and one half of London Boys London Boys London Boys were a British/German dance pop duo composed of Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller...	Car		Austrian Alpine Eastern Alps Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of the Splügen Pass in eastern Switzerland. North of the Splügen Pass, the Posterior Rhine forms the border, and south of the pass, the Liro river and Lake Como form the boundary line.-Geography:The...	Whilst another car attempted to overtake himself, the other half of the duo, Dennis Fuller and Edem's wife, plus a friend on a dangerous section, a drunk driver collided with them head on, killing all occupants.

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Name	Nationality	Birth	Death	Notability	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
	Norwegian	1974	2003	Athlete (javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon... )	Car		European route E6 European route E6 European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia...  near Moss, Norway Moss, Norway is a coastal city and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...	Collided with a truck/lorry.
align="left"|	Austrian	1957	1998	Rock musician	SUV	Mitsubishi Montero Mitsubishi Pajero The Mitsubishi Pajero is a sport utility vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors. It was named after Leopardus pajeros, the Pampas Cat which is native to the Patagonia plateau region of southern Argentina. However, since pajero is an offensive term for "wanker" in Spanish, alternative names have...	Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...	Collided with a bus.
	Egyptian	1957	1997	companion of Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...	Car	1994 Mercedes-Benz S280 W140 Mercedes-Benz W140 The Mercedes-Benz W140 was a series of flagship vehicles manufactured by the German automotive company Mercedes-Benz. The car premiered at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1991, with the first examples rolling off the production line on August 6, 1991. Short and long wheelbase sedans were offered...	Pont de l'Alma Pont de l'Alma Pont de l'Alma is an arch bridge in Paris, crossing the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army on September 20, 1854....  road tunnel, Paris, France	Fayed was traveling with Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...  at the time of the accident. Both were killed in this crash along with the driver of the car, Henri Paul Henri Paul Henri Paul was the Deputy Head of Security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris. He was the driver at the time of the car accident at the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris that killed him along with Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was the sole survivor of... ; Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones survived. Further reading: Death of Diana, Princess of Wales Death of Diana, Princess of Wales On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's...
	Italy	1906	1966	Inaugural Formula One world champion	Car	Lotus Cortina Lotus Cortina The Lotus-Cortina is a high-performance car, which was produced in the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1970 by the Ford in collaboration with Lotus Cars. The original version, which was based on the Ford Cortina Mark 1, was promoted by Ford as the "Consul Cortina developed by Lotus", with "Consul"...	Chambéry Chambéry Chambéry is a city in the department of Savoie, located in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France.It is the capital of the department and has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made the city his seat of power.-Geography:Chambéry... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
	German	1964	1993	Record Producer, DJ	Car	Mercedes-Benz 500SL Mercedes-Benz R129 The Mercedes-Benz R129 automobiles were produced from 1989 through 2002. They were sold under the SL-Class model names. The R129 replaced the R107 SL-Class in 1989 and was in its turn replaced by the R230 in 2003 .-Models:-Model history:...	Landesstraße Landesstraße Landesstraßen are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are roads that cross the boundary of a rural or urban district...  3097, Near Messel Messel Messel is a municipality in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse near Frankfurt am Main in Germany.The village is first mentioned, as Masilla, in the Lorsch codex.Messel was the property of the lords of Groschlag from ca. 1400 to 1799... , Hessen, Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Fenslau, best known for his involvement in Culture Beat Culture Beat Culture Beat is a German Eurodance project formed in 1989 by Torsten Fenslau. The act has gone through a number of line-up changes over the years; they achieved the most success whilst fronted by singer Tania Evans and rapper Jay Supreme. Their 1993 single "Mr. Vain" was a No... , lost control of his car, causing it to roll several times before coming to rest in a field. Fenslau, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the vehicle, dying in hospital a short time later.
	1937	1966	American	musician and writer			,
	1926	1958	New Zealand	classical pianist			,
	1955	1984	Spanish	road racing cyclist			,
	1936	1964	American	American football player			Rensselaer, Indiana Rensselaer, Indiana -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 5,294 people, 2,158 households, and 1,404 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,824.8 people per square mile . There were 2,296 housing units at an average density of 791.4 per square mile...
			Panamanian	footballer			,
	1975	2001	English	footballer			,
	1920	2008	Canadian	RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force The history of the Royal Canadian Air Force begins in 1920, when the air force was created as the Canadian Air Force . In 1924 the CAF was renamed the Royal Canadian Air Force and granted royal sanction by King George V. The RCAF existed as an independent service until 1968...  fighter pilot			Tillsonburg, Ontario Ontario Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
	1952	2000	American	racing driver
	1959	1995		singer and one half of London Boys London Boys London Boys were a British/German dance pop duo composed of Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller...			,

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Notability	Mode of transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
	1940	1984	American	land speed record holder	Motorcycle		Long Beach, California Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...	Collision with truck
	1950	1981	Italiano	singer-songwriter
	1935	1964	American	football player
	1948	1980	Argentinian	boxer
	1983	2001	Italian	footballer
	1910	1993		winemaker
	1953	1977	Canadian	ice hockey player
		2010	Italy	Businessman, owner of Wilier Triestina Wilier Triestina Wilier Triestina is an Italian manufacturer of racing bicycles, founded in 1906 by Pietro Dal Molin in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. They are now based in Rossano Veneto, Italy....	Bicycle		San Zenone degli Ezzelini San Zenone degli Ezzelini San Zenone degli Ezzelini is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 50 km northwest of Venice and about 35 km northwest of Treviso....	head-on collision with car
	1852	1926	Spanish	Architect	Pedestrian		Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...	Struck by a tram Tram A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...  and died from his injuries three days later.
	1929	1982		American football Hall of Famer
	1992	2010	Austrian	Fashion model	Car	Volkswagen Golf Volkswagen Golf The Volkswagen Golf is a small family car manufactured by Volkswagen since 1974 and marketed worldwide across six generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada , and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico .The...	Austria	Struck into a tree at 150 km/h over the permitted 100 km/h
Ghazi of Iraq Ghazi of Iraq Ghazi bin Faisal was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920...	1912	1939		King of Iraq 1933–1939
align="left"|	1954	1992	Spanish	footballer
Princess Grace of Monaco Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...	1929	1982	American	actress/Monegasque Royalty	Car	Rover P6 Rover P6 The first P6 used a 2.0 L engine designed specifically for the P6. Although it was announced towards the end of 1963, the car had been in "pilot production" since the beginning of the year, therefore deliveries were able to begin immediately. Original output was in the order of . At the...
	1967	1995		American football player
	1913	1969		exiled President of Togo Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...
	1919	2003		Physiologist

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• Paul Hackman
  Paul Hackman
  Paul Wayne Hackman was a Canadian guitarist who performed with the rock band Helix from 1976 until his death in a road accident...
  
   (1953–1992), Canadian musician
• Jörg Haider
  Jörg Haider
  Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions, the long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria , a breakaway party from the FPÖ.Haider was controversial within Austria and abroad for comments...
  
   (1950–2008), Austrian politician, Governor
  Landeshauptmann
  Landeshauptmann is a former German gubernatorial title equivalent to that of a governor of a province or a state....
  
   of Carinthia
  Carinthia (state)
  Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...
  
  
• Mike Hailwood
  Mike Hailwood
  Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood, MBE, GM was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer regarded by many as one of the greatest racers of all time. He was known as "Mike The Bike" because of his natural riding ability...
  
   (1940–1981), British motorcycle racer (Rover SD1
  Rover SD1
  Rover SD1 is both the code name and eventual production name given to a series of large executive cars made by British Leyland or BL through its Specialist, Rover Triumph and Austin Rover divisions from 1976 until 1986....
  
  )
• Veikko Hakulinen
  Veikko Hakulinen
  Veikko Johannes Hakulinen was a Finnish forestry technician and cross country skier, triple champion in both the olympics and world championship competition in cross country skiing...
  
   (1925–2003), Finnish skier
• David Halberstam
  David Halberstam
  David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and historian, known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.-Early life and education:Halberstam...
  
  , (1934–2007), American Pulitzer prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winning journalist
• Josh Hancock
  Josh Hancock
  Joshua Morgan Hancock was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi, he lived in St. Louis during the off-season...
  
   (1978–2007), baseball player
• Mary Hansen
  Mary Hansen
  Mary Hansen was a guitarist and singer with Stereolab.Born in Maryborough north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, Hansen moved to London in the late 1980s and became a backing singer with the Essex-based indie band, The Wolfhounds.She met Stereolab founder Tim Gane when the Wolfhounds played...
  
   (1966–2002), Australian-born vocalist with Stereolab
  Stereolab
  Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
  
  
• Ron Hansen, (1960–1993), American jockey,
• Sajjadul Hasan
  Sajjadul Hasan
  Mohammad Sajjadul Hasan was a Bangladeshi first-class cricketer.Nicknamed 'Setu', he was an opening or top-order batsman for Khulna Division...
  
   (1978–2007), Bangladeshi cricketer
• Ahmed Hassanein
  Ahmed Hassanein
  Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, KCVO, MBE or Aḥmad Moḥammad Makhlūf Ḥasanēn al-Būlākī was an Oxford-educated Egyptian courtier, diplomat, Olympic athlete in fencing, photographer, writer, politician, explorer and tutor to King Farouk.Ahmed Hassanein was one of the most influential figures in Egyptian...
  
   (1889–1946), Egyptian political advisor, writer, and sportsman
• Mike Hawthorn
  Mike Hawthorn
  John Michael Hawthorn was a racing driver, born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex.-Racing career:...
  
   (1929–1959), British racing driver (Jaguar Mark 1
  Jaguar Mark 1
  The Jaguar Mark 1 was a saloon car produced by Jaguar between 1955 and 1959. Referred to in contemporary company documentation as the Jaguar 2.4-litre and Jaguar 3.4-litre, the word "Saloon" was often added. The designation "Mark 1" was included retrospectively upon its replacement by the Mark 2...
  
  )
• Michael Hedges
  Michael Hedges
  Michael Alden Hedges was an American composer, Acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter.-Background:...
  
   (1953–1997), American musician
• Conrad Hendricks
  Conrad Hendricks
  Conrad Hendricks was a South African football player last playing as goalkeeper for Moroka Swallows....
  
   (1979–2006), South African footballer
• Chris Henry (1983–2009), American Footballer
• Bob Herbert
  Bob Herbert (manager)
  Robert “Bob” Herbert was an English talent manager. He was the original manager of the Spice Girls.-Early life:...
  
   (1942–1999), British talent manager, car (MG F)
• Ivan Hlinka
  Ivan Hlinka
  Ivan Hlinka was a Czech professional ice hockey player and coach. He was one of the most important figures in Czech ice hockey.-Playing career:...
  
   (1950–2004), Czech Ice hockey player
• Heinz Hofer (1943–1977), racing team manager and mechanic, Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer
  Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer
  A Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer is one of a series of cars produced by Ferrari in Italy between 1973 and 1984. They used a mid-mounted flat-12 engine, replacing the FR layout Daytona, and were succeeded in the Ferrari stable by the Testarossa. It was designed by Leonardo Fioravanti.Production of the...
  
  
• Marty Hogan
  Marty Hogan
  Martin Francis Hogan , nicknamed "The Indianapolis Ringer", was an Anglo-American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Browns . After leaving the National League, Hogan moved on to the minor league Indianapolis Hoosiers...
  
   (1869–1923), baseball player
• Patrick Hogan
  Patrick Hogan (Cumann na nGaedheal)
  Patrick Hogan was a Irish politician.He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1921 general election as a Sinn Féin candidate for the Galway constituency...
  
   (1891–1936), Irish politician
• Ben Hollioake
  Ben Hollioake
  Benjamin Caine Hollioake was an all rounder for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and moved to England as a boy, along with his older brother Adam...
  
   (1977–2002), English cricketer
• Johnny Horton
  Johnny Horton
  John Gale "Johnny" Horton was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s...
  
   (1925–1960), American musician
• Tim Horton
  Tim Horton
  Myles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. He was also a businessman and a co-founder of Tim Hortons. He died in an...
  
    (1930–1974), Canadian Ice hockey player
• Dean Horrix
  Dean Horrix
  Dean Horrix , was an English footballer.He joined Millwall as a striker and made 65 league appearances plus 7 as substitute, scoring 19 goals. He was sold to Gillingham in 1983 and joined Reading later the same year. He formed a successful striking partnership with Trevor Senior and was very...
  
  , (1961–1990), English footballer
• Peter Houseman
  Peter Houseman
  Peter Houseman was an English footballer.-Chelsea:Born in Battersea, Houseman signed professional terms with Chelsea in 1963, having played for the Chelsea Juniors...
  
  , (1945–1977), English footballer
• Beatrice Hsu
  Beatrice Hsu
  -Career:Hsu was a well-known actress from Taiwan and had been acting for about 5 years. She started her career as a model, but her charm and beauty were quickly noticed by television producers. She started acting while in university, and gradually gaining her fame and popularity. She was not only...
  
   (1978–2007), Taiwanese actress, car (passenger) (Mini Cooper
  MINI (BMW)
  Mini is a British automotive marque owned by BMW which specialises in small cars.Mini originated as a specific vehicle, a small car originally known as the Morris Mini-Minor and the Austin Seven, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and developed into a brand encompassing a range of...
  
  )
• John Hugenholtz
  John Hugenholtz
  Johannes Bernhardus Theodorus "Hans" Hugenholtz, in English-speaking countries a.k.a. John Hugenholtz was a Dutch designer of race tracks and cars....
  
   (1914–1995), race circuit designer

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Name	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Comment
Ben Ineson	1990	2009	Downhill racer Downhill cycling Downhill biking is a gravity-assisted time trial mountain biking event. Riders race against the clock, usually starting at intervals of 30 seconds , on courses which typically take two to five minutes to complete. Riders come from all around the world. Riders are timed with equipment similar to...	Car (passenger)	Car that he and Tom Rodgers were traveling in left the road and struck a tree at Mearbeck.
Vernon Isley	1942	1955	singer and original member of The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...	Bicycle	His bicycle was struck by a car near his home in Cincinnati.

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Name	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Details
James Jabara James Jabara James "Jabby" Jabara was the first American jet ace in history. Born in Oklahoma, he lived in Kansas where he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Riley after graduating high school. Jabara attended four flying schools in Texas before he received his pilot's wings and was commissioned as a ...	1923	1966	Korean War ace pilot	Car
Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a role which now holds the title of US Poet Laureate.-Life:Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee...	1914	1965	American poet	Pedestrian
Paul Jarrico Paul Jarrico Paul Jarrico was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.-Early years:...	1915	1997	American screenwriter	Car
Claudia Jennings Claudia Jennings Claudia Jennings was an American model and actress. Jennings was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in November 1969 and later Playmate of the Year 1970...	1949	1979	American model and Playboy Playmate	Volkswagen Beetle Volkswagen Beetle The Volkswagen Type 1, widely known as the Volkswagen Beetle or Volkswagen Bug, is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003...
Jack Johnson Jack Johnson (boxer) John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...	1878	1946	American boxer	Car
James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...	1871	1938	lawyer and civil rights advocate, on level crossing	Car
Ray Jones	1988	2007	English footballer	Car (passenger)
Junkyard Dog Junkyard Dog Sylvester Ritter was an American professional wrestler and professional football player, best known for his work in Mid-South Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as The Junkyard Dog...	1952	1998	professional wrestler	Car	Real name: Sylvester Ritter

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• Yutaka Kanai (1959–1990), Japanese athlete
• Kemistry
  Kemistry
  Valerie Olukemi A "Kemi" Olusanya , commonly known by her stage name Kemistry, was a leading English drum and bass DJ of the early 1990s who also produced a number of records on the Metalheadz label, which she co-founded with other artists including Goldie, whom she had introduced to the drum and...
  
   (1963/4–1999), English DJ
• Valeri Kharlamov (1948–1981), Russian ice hockey player
• Terrence Kiel
  Terrence Kiel
  Terrence Dewayne Kiel was an American safety in the National Football League. He played his entire career for the San Diego Chargers after being drafted by them in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M.-Early years:Kiel was born in Lufkin, Texas...
  
   (1980–2008), American football player
• Witold Kiełtyka (1984–2007), Polish death metal drummer
• Ken Kifer
  Ken Kifer
  Ken Kifer was a writer, bicyclist and webmaster. His is still a source of information on bicycling and especially bicycle touring...
  
   (1945–2003) writer, bicyclist and webmaster
• Sam Kinison
  Sam Kinison
  Samuel Burl "Sam" Kinison was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was known for his intense, harsh and politically incorrect genre humor...
  
   (1953–1992), American comedian
• Andy Kirby
  Andy Kirby
  Andy Kirby , is a former stockcar driver, most notably in NASCAR. Kirby did not initially begin with NASCAR, where his career would end. Instead, Kirby quickly earned his reputation as a motorcycle racer in the Southeastern United States...
  
   (1961–2002), NASCAR racing driver
• Hugo Koblet
  Hugo Koblet
  Hugo Koblet was a Swiss champion cyclist. He won the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia as well as competing in six-day and pursuit races on the track. He won 70 races as a professional...
  
   (1925–1964), Swiss cycling champion
• Mary Jo Kopechne
  Mary Jo Kopechne
  Mary Jo Kopechne was an American teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts on July 18, 1969, while a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Edward M...
  
   (1940–1969), passenger of Senator Ted Kennedy
  Ted Kennedy
  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
  
  
• Lou Kolls
  Lou Kolls
  Louis Charles "Lou" Kolls was a professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1933 to 1940. Kolls umpired in the 1936 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and in the 1938 World Series. In his career, he umpired 1195 Major League games...
  
   (1896–1941), Baseball umpire
• Nikola Kotkov
  Nikola Kotkov
  Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....
  
  , (1938–1971), Bulgarian footballer
• Ernie Kovacs
  Ernie Kovacs
  Ernie Kovacs was a Hungarian American comedian and actor.Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident...
  
   (1919–1962), American entertainer
• Philip Taylor Kramer
  Philip Taylor Kramer
  Philip Taylor Kramer was a bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly during the 1970s. After this he obtained a night school degree in aerospace engineering, worked on the MX missile guidance system for a contractor of the US Department of Defense and later in the computer industry on...
  
   (1952–c.1995), American musician with Iron Butterfly
  Iron Butterfly
  Iron Butterfly is a US psychedelic rock band best known for the 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".Their heyday was the late 1960s, but the band has been reincarnated with various members. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the 31st best-selling album in the world, selling more than 25 million copies.-History:The...
  
  
• Marek Krejčí
  Marek Krejcí
  Marek Krejčí was a Slovak footballer who played as a striker.- Career :Born in Bratislava, he started his career with local club Inter Bratislava, moving to Spartak Trnava in November 2000...
  
   (1980–2007), Slovak footballer
• Richard Kröll (1968–1996), Austrian alpine skier
• Juscelino Kubitschek (1902–1976), Former Brazilian president
• Evgeny Kucherevsky
  Evgeny Kucherevsky
  Yevhen Mefodiyovych Kucherevskyi was a Ukrainian football coach. He is most famous for his spells managing Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, which, under his helm, won the Soviet Championship in 1988, took 2nd place twice in 1987 and 1989, as well as the USSR Cup in 1989...
  
   (1941–2006), Ukrainian football manager
• Janusz Kulig
  Janusz Kulig
  Janusz Kulig was a Polish rally driver. He started his career behind the wheel of a Polski Fiat 126p and during his early years in rally he also drove Toyota Corolla, Opel Kadett and Renault Clio. He became one of the top drivers while driving Renault Megane Maxi...
  
   (1969–2004), Polish rally
• Kenneth Jones
  Kenneth Jones
  Kenneth Jones , was the son of Helen Myrl Carter and of Glenn Jones. He is best remembered for a song he wrote called "Sing A Traveling Song" which appeared on Johnny Cash's albums Hello, I'm Johnny Cash and Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden. Kenneth was Cash's nephew-in-law...
  
  (1952–1969), songwriter
• Atsushi Kuroi
  Atsushi Kuroi
  was a Japanese professional drifting driver who competed in the D1 Grand Prix series for with . He died on 2 February 2010 during the evening due to a motorcycle accident....
  
  (1969–2010), Japanese drifting driver

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• Nicolae Labiş
  Nicolae Labis
  Nicolae Labiș was a Romanian poet.-Early life:His father, Eugen, was the son of a forest brigade soldier and himself fought in World War II; he became a schoolteacher in 1931. His mother Ana-Profira, the daughter of a peasant killed in the Battle of Mărășești, was also a schoolteacher...
  
   (1935–1956), Romanian poet
• Scott LaFaro
  Scott LaFaro
  Rocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz bassist, perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio.-Biography:...
  
   (1936–1961), American jazz musician
• Martin Lamble
  Martin Lamble
  Martin Francis Lamble was the drummer for British electric folk band, Fairport Convention, from just after their formation in 1967, until his death in the Fairport Convention van crash in 1969...
  
   (1949–1969), British rock drummer
• Mark Langford (1964–2007), Controversial British company director of The Accident Group
  The Accident Group
  The Accident Group was a Manchester based personal injury claims management company that went into administration in May 2003. The firm gained notoriety for informing its 2,400 workers of their redundancy by text message, which, according to BBC reports, led to the firm's offices being emptied of...
  
  .
• T. E. Lawrence
  T. E. Lawrence
  Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
  
   (1888–1935), British army officer
• Iry LeJeune
  Iry LeJeune
  Iry LeJeune was one of the best selling and most popular Cajun musicians in the mid to late 1940s into the early 1950s....
  
   (1928–1955), American Cajun accordionist
• Julia Lennon
  Julia Lennon
  Julia Lennon was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith , she handed over the care of her son to her sister...
  
   (1914–1958), mother of John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
  
• Charles Lewis, Jr.
  Charles Lewis, Jr.
  Charles Lewis, Jr. was an American businessman, promoter and entertainer. Known by his nickname "Mask", Lewis founded the TapouT clothing line in 1997, which eventually became a multi-million dollar clothing company....
  
   (1963–2009), American businessman, promoter and entertainer
• Jim Liberman
  Jim Liberman
  Russell James "Jim" Liberman was an United States drag racer from Pennsylvania, known as "Jungle Jim". He was named #17 on the list of the Top 50 NHRA drivers. Liberman was known for driving backwards at 100 mph after doing his burnout.Liberman was known as a flamboyant showman who toured the...
  
   (1945–1977), American drag racing driver
• Pelle Lindbergh
  Pelle Lindbergh
  Per-Eric Göran "Pelle" Lindbergh was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played parts of five seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers.-Playing career:...
  
   (1959–1985), Swedish ice hockey goaltender
• Desmond Llewelyn
  Desmond Llewelyn
  Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor, famous for playing Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.-Early life:...
  
   (1914–1999), British actor (Q
  Q (James Bond)
  Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. Q , like M, is a job title rather than a name. He is the head of Q Branch , the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service...
  
   in the James Bond
  James Bond
  James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
  
   movies)
• Linda Lovelace
  Linda Lovelace
  Linda Susan Boreman , better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance of deep throat fellatio in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat...
  
   (1949–2002), American actress
• Lisa Lopes
  Lisa Lopes
  Lisa Nicole Lopes better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper, singer, dancer, actress, television host, and songwriter...
  
  , (1971–2002), American singer with the R&B trio TLC
• Juan López Mella, (1965–1995), Spanish motorcycle racer

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Occupation (or claim to notability)	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Shawn Mackay Shawn Mackay Shawn Mackay was an Australian rugby union player with the Canberra based Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. He was the son of former Eastern Suburbs rugby league player John Mackay.-Career:...	1982	2009	Australia	Rugby union player	Pedestrian		Durban Durban Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism... , South Africa	Died of complications a week after the accident.
Aristide Maillol Aristide Maillol Aristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.-Biography:...	1861	1944	French	artist	car
Sigisfredo Mair Sigisfredo Mair Siegfried Mair, April 18, 1939 - May 15, 1977) was a South Tyrolean luger who competed from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. He was born in Toblach...	1939	1977	Italian	luger	car
Stephen Malcolm Stephen Malcolm Stephen Malcolm was a Jamaican international football player. His position was defensive midfielder or defender.During his club career he played for Seba United....	1970	2001	Jamaica	footballer	car
Barry Mannakee Barry Mannakee Barry Albert Mannakee was a police officer with the Royal Protection Squad and was assigned as a bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales in 1985...		1987	British	bodyguard and alleged lover of Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...	Motorcycle
César Manrique César Manrique César Manrique was an artist and an architect.-Biography:Manrique grew up in the area of San Ginés lagoon. At age 23, he participated in his first exhibition in Arrecife. He attended the University of La Laguna. In 1945, Manrique attended the art school San Fernando in Madrid for five years...	1919	1992	Spanish	architect	car
Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...	1933	1967	American	actress	car (passenger)	1966 Buick Electra Buick Electra The Buick Electra was a full-size premium automobile built by the Buick division of General Motors. The Electra name was used by Buick between 1959 and 1990.- 1959–1960 :...	U.S. Highway 90 U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 90 is an east–west United States highway. Despite the "0" in its route number, U.S. 90 never was a full coast-to-coast route; it has always ended at Van Horn, Texas. A short-lived northward extension to U.S...	En route to New Orleans, the car crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer Semi-trailer truck A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or articulated truck or articulated lorry, is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine , and a semi-trailer A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated truck...  that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger Insecticide An insecticide is a pesticide used against insects. They include ovicides and larvicides used against the eggs and larvae of insects respectively. Insecticides are used in agriculture, medicine, industry and the household. The use of insecticides is believed to be one of the major factors behind... . The automobile struck the rear of the semi tractor and underrode it., killing its front seat occupants Mansfield, her boyfriend Sam Brody and her driver instantly; Her three children including Mariska Mariska Hargitay Mariska Hargitay is an American actress, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe.The daughter of actress... , who sat at the rear of the car survived with minor injuries.
Lesley Manyathela Lesley Manyathela Lesley Phuti "Slow Poison" Manyathela was a South African football player for Orlando Pirates and South Africa.- Career :...	1981	2003	South Africa	footballer	car
Joey Marella Joey Marella Joey Marella was a professional wrestling referee for the World Wrestling Federation and the son of former wrestler and then WWF announcer Gorilla Monsoon from Willingboro Township, New Jersey....	1964	1994	American	World Wrestling Federation World Wrestling Entertainment World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...  referee	car
Johnny Mauro Johnny Mauro Johnny Mauro was an American racecar driver. He was born in Denver Colorado on October 25, 1910. John loved baseball and cars. He and his family owned several car dealerships, leading him to being the only Ferrari importer in Denver for many years...	1910	2003	United States	Racing driver			Interstate 70 Interstate 70 Interstate 70 is an Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from Interstate 15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to a Park and Ride near Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first Interstate Highway project in the United States. I-70 approximately traces the path of U.S. Route 40 east of the Rocky... , near Denver	Head-on collision
Michelle Monkhouse Michelle Monkhouse Michelle Kathleen Monkhouse was a Canadian fashion model active from late 2000s to early 2010s before dying in a road accident at the age of 19.-Biography:...	1991	2011	Canada	Fashion model	Horse		Markham, Ontario Markham, Ontario Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...	"Michelle Monkhouse", 27 June 2011, The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

• Gonzalo Márquez
  Gonzalo Márquez
  Gonzalo Enrique Márquez Moya was a professional baseball first baseman. A left-handed batter, he played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics and Chicago Cubs...
  
   (1946–1984), Major league baseball player
• Billy Martin
  Billy Martin
  Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr. was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times...
  
   (1929–1989), American baseball player and manager
• Fernando Martín Espina
  Fernando Martín Espina
  Fernando Martín Espina is considered one of the best Spanish basketball players ever....
  
   (1962–1989), Spanish basketball player, first Spaniard to play in the NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
  , inductee of the FIBA Hall of Fame
  FIBA Hall of Fame
  FIBA Hall of Fame honors basketball players, coaches and administrators who have contributed to international competitive basketball. It was established by FIBA in 1991. It includes the "Samaranch Library", the biggest basketball library in the world that, as of 2007, has over 10,000 basketball...
  
  
• Pyotr Masherov
  Pyotr Masherov
  Pyotr Mironovich Masherov , - October 4, 1980) was the first secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a communist leader of Soviet Belarus.- Overview :...
  
   (1918–1980), Soviet leader
• Sergei Maslov (1939–1982), Russian mathematician
• Lebo Mathosa
  Lebo Mathosa
  Lebo Mathosa was a popular South African kwaito singer.Mathosa started her career with the popular South African band Boom Shaka in 1994 at the age of 15, after she caught the eye of music producer Don Laka at a club in Johannesburg. She was one of the few successful female kwaito artists in an...
  
   (1977–2006), South African singer
• Jason Mayélé
  Jason Mayélé
  Jason Nono Mayélé was a footballer from Democratic Republic of the Congo.- Career :Mayélé played as a striker or winger and was a member of the Chievo team that qualified for Europe in their first Serie A season which he was signed in October. He had represented his country at the African Cup of...
  
  , (1976–2002), Congolese footballer
• Lucien Mazan (1882–1917), Argentinian cyclist
• Andy McVann
  The Farm (band)
  The Farm were a British band from Liverpool, popular through the early 1990s. Their album Spartacus reached the top position on the UK Albums Chart when it was released in March, 1991.-History:They formed in early 1983....
  
   (1965–1986), British musician of The Farm
• Vittorio Mero
  Vittorio Mero
  Vittorio Mero was an Italian football player.-Career:Born at Vercelli, he started his career with an amateur team, Belvedere, in 1990-1991, and made his debut at the professional level at the age of 17 for A.S. Casale Calcio. The following year Mero signed for Parma F.C., playing with the...
  
  , (1974–2002), Italian footballer
• Gionata Mingozzi
  Gionata Mingozzi
  Gionata Mingozzi was an Italian footballer. He last played for Treviso in Serie B.-Career:Mingozzi started his career at Ravenna. He followed the team promoted from Eccellenza to Serie C2 within 2 years...
  
  , (1984–2008), Italian footballer
• Solomon Mikhoels
  Solomon Mikhoels
  Solomon Mikhoels ; was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the Second World War...
  
   (1890–1948), Russian actor and Jewish activist
• Darren Millane
  Darren Millane
  Darren "Pants" Millane was an Australian rules football player in the VFL/AFL for the Collingwood Football Club between 1984 and 1991.-AFL career:...
  
  , (1965–1991), Australian rules football
• Fred Mills
  Fred Mills (musician)
  Fred Mills was University of Georgia music professor from 1996–2009, and a 1992 Grammy nominee who made more than 40 records as a trumpeter with the Canadian Brass quintet from 1972-1996....
  
  , (1935–2009), Canadian trumpeter and music professor
• Margaret Mitchell
  Margaret Mitchell
  Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her epic American Civil War era novel, Gone with the Wind, which was the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.-Family:Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta,...
  
   (1900–1949), American author of Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind
  The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free...
  
  
• Tom Mix
  Tom Mix
  Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features...
  
   (1880–1940), American actor
• Carlos Monzón
  Carlos Monzón
  Carlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....
  
   (1942–1995), Argentinian boxer
• Bob Moose
  Bob Moose
  Robert Ralph Moose Jr. was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1967 to 1976. Moose spent his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His best season came in 1969 when he posted a 14-3 won-loss record and a 2.91 Earned Run Average working equally as a starter and reliever...
  
   (1947–1976), American baseball player
• Russell Mockridge
  Russell Mockridge
  Russell Mockridge was a racing cyclist from Geelong, Victoria, Australia. He died during a race, in collision with a bus....
  
  , Australian racing cyclist, (1928–1958). Died during a race, in collision with a bus.
• Saúl Morales
  Saúl Morales
  Saúl Morales Corral was a Spanish racing cyclist, who was born in Madrid.Morales became a professional in 1999, at the Fuenlabrada team. That year his fellow team member Manuel Sanromá died during the Volta a Catalunya. Three years earlier, José Antonio Espinosa another Fuenlabrada member, died...
  
   (1973–2000), Spanish cyclist
• Rob Moroso
  Rob Moroso
  Rob Moroso was a NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series in 1989, was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award...
  
   (1968–1990), NASCAR Winston Cup Driver
• Mike Mosley
  Mike Mosley
  Mike Mosley , was an American racecar driver.Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Mosley died in an off-road vehicle accident near Riverside, California. His young son, Michael, was also riding in the van Mosley was driving, but was uninjured. He was a driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series...
  
   (1946–1984), IndyCar
  Champ Car
  Champ Car was the name for a class and specification of open wheel cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades, primarily for use in the Indianapolis 500 auto race...
  
   driver
• Lucille Mulhall
  Lucille Mulhall
  Lucille Mulhall was a well known cowgirl and Wild West performer. She was raised on her family's Mulhall Ranch in Oklahoma Territory, near what is now Mulhall, Oklahoma...
  
   (1885–1940), cowgirl and Wild West performer (car)
• Rich Mullins
  Rich Mullins
  Richard Wayne "Rich" Mullins was an American Contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter born in Richmond, Indiana. He had two sisters and two brothers....
  
   (1955–1997), Christian Music
  Christian music
  Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world....
  
   artist
• F.W. Murnau  (1888–1931), Film director of Nosferatu
• Sir John Murray
  John Murray (oceanographer)
  Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS was a pioneering Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist.-Early life:...
  
   (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist
• Mike Muuss
  Mike Muuss
  Michael John Muuss was the author of the freeware network tool Ping.A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen...
  
   (1958–2000), American computer programmer (creator of Ping
  Ping
  Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer...
  
  )
• Maharajapuram Santhanam
  Maharajapuram Santhanam
  Sangeetha Kalanidhi Maharajapuram Santhanam , was one of the great Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. He was born in Sirunangur, a village in the state of Tamil Nadu. He followed the footsteps of his father Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer who was also a Carnatic singer.- Profile :Besides...
  
   (1928–1992), Guru
  Guru
  A guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others . Other forms of manifestation of this principle can include parents, school teachers, non-human objects and even one's own intellectual discipline, if the...
  
   and exponent of Indian Classical Music
  Indian classical music
  The origins of Indian classical music can be found in the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition. Indian classical music has also been significantly influenced by, or syncretised with, Indian folk music and Persian music. The Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, describes music...
  
  

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Name	Nationality	Death	Birth	Notability	Mode of transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details	Source
	Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...	1950	2005	blues Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...  and metal Heavy metal music Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States... /rock musician	Motorcycle	Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson , often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression...	route 5, km 71, Luján Luján, Buenos Aires Luján is a city in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, located 68 kilometres north west of the city of Buenos Aires. The city was founded in 1755 and has a population of 94,000 .... , Buenos Aires province Buenos Aires Province The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...
	Japan	1944	2010	chief test driver Test driver In motor sports it is common to have one or more test drivers that work with the mechanics to help develop the vehicle by testing new systems on the track.-NASCAR:...  and chief test engineer Test Engineer A hardware test engineer is a professional who determines how to create a process that would test a particular product in manufacturing, quality assurance or related area like RMA department, in order to assure that the product meets applicable specifications...  of Toyota Toyota Motor Corporation , , , commonly known simply as Toyota and abbreviated as TMC, is a multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2010, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 317,734 people worldwide, and was the world's largest automobile manufacturer by production.The company was founded by...	Car	Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition	Boos, Mayen-Koblenz Boos, Mayen-Koblenz Boos is a municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany....	Veered onto the path of a prototype BMW 3 Series, also on a testing exercise, frontally. All three occupants involved wore helmets.
	Austria	1966	1991	Alpine skier Alpine skiing Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...	Car		Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
	United States	1966	1989	American football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...  player	Car		Suwanee, Georgia Suwanee, Georgia As of 2010 Suwanee had a population of 15,355. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 67.4% white, 10.8% black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 18.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.3% reporting some other race and 2.3% reporting two or more races...	Veered off down an embankment into a tree eight miles from his team's training complex.

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Name	Nationality	Birth	Death	Notability	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details	Source
John O'Quinn John O'Quinn John Maurice O'Quinn was a Texas trial lawyer and founding partner of The O'Quinn Law Firm . His firm made its business handling plaintiff's litigation, including representing clients suing breast implant manufacturers, medical facilities, and tobacco companies...	American	1941	2009	Lawyer	Automobile	Chevrolet Suburban Chevrolet Suburban Chevrolet offered a station wagon body, built on the 1/2 ton truck frame. This model was specifically built for National Guard units and Civilian Conservation Corps units. Much of the body was constructed from wood, and could seat up to eight occupants....	Houston, Texas Houston, Texas Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ... , United States	O'Quinn was driving twice the 40 mph speed limit in the rain at 8 a.m. where his Suburban slammed into a tree, killing another occupant, whom neither wore seat belt.
Berry Oakley Berry Oakley Raymond Berry Oakley III , was an American bassist and one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band.-Biography:...	American	1948	1972	bass guitarist	Motorcycle		Macon, Georgia Macon, Georgia Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...
Metin Oktay Metin Oktay Metin Oktay nicknamed the Uncrowned King by Galatasaray fans, was a legendary Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goalscorers in Turkey....	Turkish	1936	1991	footballer	Automobile		Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... , Turkey
Mel Ott Mel Ott Melvin Thomas Ott , nicknamed "Master Melvin", was a Major League Baseball right fielder. He played his entire career for the New York Giants . Ott was born in Gretna, Louisiana. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...	American	1909	1958	Baseball Hall of Famer	Automobile		New Orleans
Willem van Otterloo Willem van Otterloo Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.-Biography:Van Otterloo was born in Winterswijk, Gelderland, in the Netherlands, the son of William Frederik van Otterloo, a railway inspector, and his wife Anna Catharina Enderlé...	Dutch	1907	1978	Conductor	Automobile		St Kilda East, Victoria St Kilda East, Victoria St Kilda East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. It is located within the Local Government Areas of the City of Glen Eira and the City of Port Phillip. At the 2006 Census, it had a population of 12,188.St Kilda East is one... , Australia

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Name	Nationality	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Carlos Paião Carlos Paião Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião was a very popular singer and song-writer in Portugal.He represented Portugal at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Playback....	Portugal	1957	1988	Singer-songwriter	Automobile	Van
Fran Papasedero Fran Papasedero Fran Papasedero was an Arena football player and coach. Papasedero coached the Arena Football League's Orlando Predators in the 2002 and 2003 seasons, having been appointed to replace Jay Gruden who wanted to resume his playing career at quarterback for the Predators. He had a 19-11 record and was...	United States	1969	2003	Arena football player/coach	Automobile	Lexus Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has...  sedan	Orlando, Florida	Car lost control and rolled four times; ejected due to not wearing seat belt.
Michelle Parma	United States	1975	2002	Actress	Automobile	Jeep
Simon Patterson Simon Patterson (footballer) Simon Patterson was an English footballer. He was born in Harrow, London, and signed for Watford on leaving Nower Hill High School in 1999....	England	1982	2006	Footballer	Automobile	BMW 328i BMW E90 The saloon model was the first model sold of the 5th generation BMW 3 series. Debuting in the US in 2006, the E90 came in two trims, the 325i/xi and 330i/xi models...
George S. Patton George S. Patton George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...	United States	1885	1945	General	Automobile	1939 Cadillac Series 75	Near Mannheim Mannheim Mannheim is a city in southwestern Germany. With about 315,000 inhabitants, Mannheim is the second-largest city in the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, following the capital city of Stuttgart.... , Germany	Died from complications 12 days after accident.
Alan J. Pakula Alan J. Pakula Alan Jay Pakula was an American film director, writer and producer noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre.-Career:...	United States	1928	1998	Film producer	Automobile	1995 Volvo
Mike Parkes Mike Parkes Michael Johnson Parkes was an English racing driver.He participated in 7 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 18, 1959. He achieved two podiums, and scored a total of 14 championship points. He also secured one pole position...	UK	1931	1977	Auto racer
Henri Paul Henri Paul Henri Paul was the Deputy Head of Security at the Hôtel Ritz Paris. He was the driver at the time of the car accident at the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris that killed him along with Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997. Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones was the sole survivor of...	France	1956	1997	Chauffeur	Automobile	Mercedes-Benz S280 Mercedes-Benz W140 The Mercedes-Benz W140 was a series of flagship vehicles manufactured by the German automotive company Mercedes-Benz. The car premiered at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1991, with the first examples rolling off the production line on August 6, 1991. Short and long wheelbase sedans were offered...	Pont de l'Alma Pont de l'Alma Pont de l'Alma is an arch bridge in Paris, crossing the Seine. It was named to commemorate the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War, in which the Franco-British alliance achieved victory over the Russian army on September 20, 1854....  tunnel, Paris	See also Death of Diana, Princess of Wales Death of Diana, Princess of Wales On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the Mercedes-Benz W140, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's... .
David Penhaligon David Penhaligon David Charles Penhaligon was a British politician from Cornwall who was a Liberal Member of Parliament from October 1974 until his death...	British	1944	1986	Politician	Automobile	Rover SD1 Rover SD1 Rover SD1 is both the code name and eventual production name given to a series of large executive cars made by British Leyland or BL through its Specialist, Rover Triumph and Austin Rover divisions from 1976 until 1986....	Truck Fork, Probus, Cornwall
Dražen Petrović Dražen Petrovic Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989...	Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...	1964	1993	Basketball player	Automobile	Volkswagen Golf Volkswagen Golf The Volkswagen Golf is a small family car manufactured by Volkswagen since 1974 and marketed worldwide across six generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada , and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico .The...	Bundesautobahn 9 near Denkendorf, Bavaria Denkendorf, Bavaria Denkendorf is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.... , Germany	On a cloudy and rainy afternoon, the driver of a northbound semi-trailer truck swerved to avoid a collision with a car in his lane. The truck broke through the median, blocking all three southbound lanes. Seconds later, the car in which Petrović was a passenger hit the truck. The sleeping Petrović, who was not wearing a seat belt, died on impact. His girlfriend, who was driving, and another passenger in the car suffered grave injuries, but survived.
Bobby Phills Bobby Phills Bobby Ray Phills II was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers and Charlotte Hornets....	United States	1969	2000	Basketball player	Automobile	1997 Porsche 993 Porsche 993 The Porsche 993 is the company's internal name for the version of the Porsche 911 model manufactured and sold between late 1993 and early 1998, replacing the 964...  Cabriolet	Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...
Mark Philo Mark Philo Mark William Philo was an English professional footballer. He was born in Bracknell, Berkshire and spent his whole professional career at Wycombe Wanderers. He died on 14 January 2006 in a road traffic collision.- Career :...	English	1984	2006	footballer	car	Vauxhall Astra Vauxhall Astra Astra is a model name which has been used by Vauxhall, the British subsidiary of General Motors , on their small family car ranges since 1979. Astras are technically essentially identical with similar vehicles offered by GM's German subsidiary Opel in most other European countries...
Andrea Pininfarina Andrea Pininfarina Andrea Pininfarina was an Italian engineer and manager, former CEO of the Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina, founded by his grandfather Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930 and still controlled by the family...	Italian	1957	2008	engineer and manager, CEO of Pininfarina Pininfarina Pininfarina S.p.A. is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder in Cambiano, Italy.Founded as Società anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in 1930 by automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina, Pininfarina has been employed by a wide variety of high-end automobile manufacturers,...	scooter	Vespa Vespa Vespa is an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian.The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A...  GT60
Ja'far Pishevari			1947	founder and chairman of short-lived Azerbaijan People's Government Azerbaijan People's Government The Azerbaijan People's Government was a short-lived, Soviet-backed client state in northern Iran. Established in Iranian Azerbaijan, the APG's capital was the city of Tabriz...	car
Vasek Polak	American	1914	1997	racing team owner	car	1997 Porsche 993 Turbo S		Died later from injuries sustained in an accident in a German autobahn
Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...	American	1912	1956	artist	car	1950 Oldsmobile 88 Oldsmobile 88 The Oldsmobile 88 was a full-size car sold by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors and produced from 1949 until 1999. From 1950 to 1974 the 88 was the division's top-selling line, particularly the entry-level models such as the 88 and Dynamic 88...  convertible
Jim Pomeroy Jim Pomeroy Jim Pomeroy was a professional motocross racer. In 1973, he became the first American rider to win a FIM world championship motocross race when he rode a Bultaco Pursang to victory in the 1973 250cc Spanish motocross Grand Prix...	American	1952	2006	Motocrosser	car	Jeep	Yakima, Washington	Single vehicle, rollover accident
Cozy Powell Cozy Powell Colin Flooks , better known as Cozy Powell, was an English rock drummer who made his name with many major rock bands.-Early history:...	British	1947	1998	drummer with Whitesnake Whitesnake Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...	car	Saab 9000 Saab 9000 The Saab 9000 is an automobile that was produced by the Swedish company Saab from 1984 to 1997. The 9000 was replaced by the 9-5 in the late 1997....		Powell's blood-alcohol reading shown that he was over the legal limit at the time of crash, also he was not wearing a seatbelt, and was talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone whilst driving Mobile phones and driving safety Mobile phone use while driving is common, but dangerous. Due to the number of accidents that are related to cell phone use while driving, some jurisdictions have made the use of a cell phone while driving illegal. Others have enacted laws to ban handheld mobile phone use, but allow use of a... .
Richie Powell Richie Powell Richie Powell was an American bebop jazz pianist.Powell was born into a musical family in New York City, and was the younger brother of Bud Powell...		1931	1956	jazz musician	Automobile
Steve Prefontaine Steve Prefontaine Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine was an American middle and long-distance runner. Prefontaine once held the American record in the seven distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters...	American	1951	1975	athlete	car	MG MGB MG MGB The MGB is a sports car launched by MG Cars in May 1962 to replace the MGA. Introduced as a four-cylinder roadster, a coupé with 2+2 seating was added in 1965...	Eugene, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Eugene is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.As of the 2010 U.S...	Car swerved, hit a rock wall, and flipped, trapping him underneath. A witness saw him alive beneath the car, but could not move the vehicle. By the time the witness returned with help, Prefontaine had died.
Rajesh Pilot Rajesh Pilot Rajesh Pilot was an Indian politician and a minister in the Government of India. He belonged to the Indian National Congress party and represented the Dausa constituency in Lok Sabha....	Indian		2000	Indian Minister and politician from Congress party	car
Audie Pitre Audie Pitre Audie Thomas Pitre was an accomplished bass guitarist. He also added back-up vocals in Acid Bath and formed another band known as Shrüm . Pitre formed Shrüm with the idea to have two bass players, himself and Joseph J...		1970	1996	Bassist of music group Acid Bath Acid Bath Acid Bath was a seminal American sludge metal band from Houma, Louisiana that was active from 1991 to 1997. Acid Bath combined doom metal roots with influences from black metal, death metal, gothic rock, blues, folk, and country...	car
Buford Pusser Buford Pusser Buford Hayse Pusser was the Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee , from 1964 to 1970. Pusser is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices on the Mississippi-Tennessee state-line. His story has directly inspired several books, songs, movies and at...		1937	1974	Sheriff Sheriff A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....  of McNairy County, Tennessee	car	Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Corvette The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car by the Chevrolet division of General Motors that has been produced in six generations. The first model, a convertible, was designed by Harley Earl and introduced at the GM Motorama in 1953 as a concept show car. Myron Scott is credited for naming the car after...
Toše Proeski Toše Proeski Todor Toše Proeski was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and all around Eastern Europe, and locally he was considered a top act of the Macedonian music scene...	Macedonian	1981	2007	pop star	Automobile	Volkswagen Touareg Volkswagen Touareg The Volkswagen Touareg is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by German automaker Volkswagen since 2002. The vehicle was named after the Tuareg people, a Berber-speaking group in North Africa...

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Eric Qin Eric Qin Eric Lee Chin, also known as Eric Qin , was an American composer of experimental music. While studying at the Mannes College of Music in New York City in the early 1990s, Qin founded the Rough Assemblage composers' collective, along with Mark De Gli Antoni and Norman Yamada.Born and raised in New...	1967	1993	United States	experimental music composer	Bicycle		Upper West Side Upper West Side The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street... , Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
Valérie Quennessen Valerie Quennessen Valérie Quennessen was a French film actress.Quennessen was born in Paris and dedicated much of her childhood to pursuing her dream of becoming an acrobat. She quickly reached a level of competence and received an award for her expertise at the age of ten...	1957	1989	French	Actress	Car

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Dottie Rambo Dottie Rambo Dottie Rambo was an American gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy and multiple Dove Award-winning artist. Rambo, along with husband Buck and daughter Reba, formed the award-winning southern Gospel group, The Rambos...	1934	2008	United States	Gospel Singer and Songwriter	Tour Bus		Mount Vernon, Missouri
Manjural Islam Rana Manjural Islam Rana Manjural Islam Rana , also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, Rana was a slow left arm orthodox bowler...	1984	2007	Bangladeshi	cricketer	Motorcycle
Joe Ranft Joe Ranft Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor who worked for Pixar and Disney. His brother, Jerome Ranft, is a sculptor who also worked on several Pixar movies....	1960	2005	United States	animator	Car		California State Route 1 California State Route 1 State Route 1 , more often called Highway 1, is a state highway that runs along much of the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. It is famous for running along some of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, leading to its designation as an All-American Road.Highway 1 does not run... , Mendocino County, California Mendocino County, California Mendocino County is a county located on the north coast of the U.S. state of California, north of the greater San Francisco Bay Area and west of the Central Valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 87,841, up from 86,265 at the 2000 census...
Razzle	1960	1984	United Kingdom	Hanoi Rocks Hanoi Rocks Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 after the death of their drummer, Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley...  drummer	Automobile	De Tomaso Pantera De Tomaso Pantera The Pantera was a sports car produced by the De Tomaso car company of Italy from 1971 to 1991, the last one being delivered to a customer in 1992.The word "Pantera" is Italian for "Panther".-History:...		Car was driven by its owner, Vince Neil Vince Neil Vincent Neil Wharton is an American vocalist and musician, best known as the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.-Early life:Neil was born in Hollywood, California to Odie and Shirley Wharton...  who crashed whilst driving intoxicated as well was speeding
Clay Regazzoni Clay Regazzoni Gianclaudio Giuseppe "Clay" Regazzoni was a Swiss racing car driver. He competed in Formula One races from 1970 to 1980, winning five Grands Prix. His first win was the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in his debut season, driving for Ferrari. He remained with the Italian team until...	1939	2006	Swiss	Retired racing driver	Car	Chrysler Voyager Chrysler Voyager The Chrysler Voyager or Chrysler Grand Voyager is a minivan sold by the Chrysler division of American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Group LLC...	A1 Autostrada, near Parma Parma Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
Don Rich Don Rich Donald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of the Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens.-Biography:Donald Eugene Ulrich was...	1941	1974	United States	Country music singer; member of Buck Owens Buck Owens Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos... ' Buckaroos	Motorcycle		Near Bakersfield, California Bakersfield, California Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....	Struck a guardrail after losing control of his motorcycle on Highway 99 California State Route 99 California State Route 99 , commonly known as Highway 99 or, simply, as 99 , is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California, stretching almost the entire length of the Central Valley...  north of Bakersfield, while traveling to Morro Bay Morro Bay, California Morro Bay is a waterfront city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,234, down from 10,350 at the 2000 census.- History :...  for a family vacation.
Kenny Robinson	1969	1999	United States	Major league baseball pitcher	Car		Tucson, Arizona Tucson, Arizona Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
Tom Rodgers	1987	2009	British	Downhill racer Downhill cycling Downhill biking is a gravity-assisted time trial mountain biking event. Riders race against the clock, usually starting at intervals of 30 seconds , on courses which typically take two to five minutes to complete. Riders come from all around the world. Riders are timed with equipment similar to...	Car	Peugeot 306 Peugeot 306 The Peugeot 306 is a small family car built by the French car manufacturer Peugeot from 1993 to 2002 replacing the 309. Peugeot gave the 306 many updates and aesthetic changes to keep up the competition but it was replaced by the 307 in 2001. Cabriolet and estate versions continued until 2002...	Mearbeck	Car that he and Ben Ineson was travelled in left the road and struck into a tree
Joe Rollino Joe Rollino Joseph "Joe" Rollino was a decorated World War II veteran, weightlifter, and strongman. The son of Italian immigrants, Rollino dubbed himself the world's strongest man in the 1920s, moving with his back during the prime of his career.-Early life and career:Rollino was born and raised in Coney...	1905	2010	United States	Strongman Strongman (strength athlete) In the 19th century, the term strongman referred to an exhibitor of strength or circus performers of similar ilk who displayed feats of strength such as the bent press , supporting large amounts of...	Pedestrian	n/a	Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York	Crossing street 40 ft (12.2 m) from nearest crosswalk.
Jean Rondeau Jean Rondeau Jean Rondeau was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.-Early career:Rondeau drove briefly in Formula Renault before moving to saloon cars...	1946	1985	France	racing driver and race car builder	Car		Champagné	Attempted to drive through a closed level crossing to follow a police car and was struck by a train
Darrell Russell	1976	2005	United States	American footballer	Car	Pontiac Grand Prix Pontiac Grand Prix Picking up where the Pontiac Ventura model left off, the Grand Prix first appeared in the Pontiac line for 1962. It was essentially a standard Pontiac Catalina coupe with minimal outside chrome trim and a sportier interior...  (2004)	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...	Car was driven by former teammate Michael Bastianelli, who was also killed
Porfirio Rubirosa Porfirio Rubirosa Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo. He made his mark as an international playboy, for his jet setting lifestyle, and his legendary prowess with women...	1909	1965	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...	Dominican diplomat	Car	Ferrari	Paris, France	Crashed into a tree whilst driving intoxicated
Frank Ryan	1960	2010	American	Plastic surgeon Plastic surgery Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand...	Car	1995 Jeep Wrangler Jeep Wrangler The Jeep Wrangler is a subcompact four-wheel drive sport utility vehicle and an off-road vehicle manufactured by American automaker Chrysler, under its Jeep marque – and now in its fourth generation. It is a successor to the famous World War II 'Jeep' vehicle by way of the Willys civilian...	California State Route 1 California State Route 1 State Route 1 , more often called Highway 1, is a state highway that runs along much of the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. It is famous for running along some of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, leading to its designation as an All-American Road.Highway 1 does not run... , Malibu, California	Car drove off the cliff, his passenger Jill the dog was thrown out of the vehicle but survived with some minor injuries. Accident is likely to have been caused by "tweeting" whilst driving Texting while driving Texting while driving is the act of composing, sending, reading text messages, email, or making other similar use of the web on a mobile phone while operating a motor vehicle. The practice has been viewed by many people and authorities as dangerous. It has also been ruled as the cause of some motor...

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Name	Nationality	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Silvester Sabolčki Silvester Sabolčki Silvester Sabolčki was a Croatian footballer who played as a winger....	Croatian	1979	2003	footballer	Car	Audi A3 Audi A3 The Audi A3 is a small family car produced by the German automaker Audi since 1996. Two generations of A3 exist, both based on the Volkswagen Group A platform, which they share with several other models such as the Audi TT, Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Caddy and Volkswagen Touran as well as SEAT...	Varaždin Varaždin Varaždin is a city in north Croatia, north of Zagreb on the highway A4. The total population is 47,055, with 38,746 on of the city settlement itself . The centre of Varaždin county is located near the Drava river, at... , Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...	The vehicle, driven by Sabolčki, was torn apart upon hitting two light poles and traffic signs at high speed. Sabolčki and two other passengers in the vehicle were ejected from it and killed instantly.
Stephane Sallaz	French	1975	1999	racing driver	Car
Salvador Sánchez Salvador Sánchez Salvador Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de México. Many of his contemporaries as well as boxing writers believe that, had it not been for his premature death, Sanchez could have gone on to become the greatest Featherweight boxer of all time...	Mexican	1959	1982	boxer
Richard Sanders Richard Sanders (wrestler) Richard Sanders was an Olympic wrestler from the United States. He won a silver medal in both the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, the flyweight division, and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in Germany in the bantamweight division. Both medals were won in freestyle wrestling...	American	1945	1972	amateur wrestler
Jessica Savitch Jessica Savitch Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television broadcaster and news reporter, host of PBS' Frontline and New York weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News during the short-lived Roger Mudd/Tom Brokaw era....	American	1947	1983	journalist
Josef Schnitzer Schnitzer Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport is a motorsport team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. From the early days of its establishment, the team has operated an automobile racing squad for BMW, and has remarkable results in touring car and sports car racing scenes.... .	German	1939	1978	racing driver and founder of Schnitzer Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport Schnitzer Motorsport is a motorsport team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. From the early days of its establishment, the team has operated an automobile racing squad for BMW, and has remarkable results in touring car and sports car racing scenes....	Car
Henry Schultz Henry Schultz Henry Schultz was an American economist and statistician, one of the founders of econometrics.-Life:Henry Schultz was born on September 4, 1893 in a Polish family in Szarkowszczyzna, the Russian Empire...	American	1893	1938	economist
Gaetano Scirea Gaetano Scirea Gaetano Scirea was an Italian football player who is considered one of the greatest defenders of all-time.Scirea is one of only five players in European football history to have won all international trophies for football clubs recognized by UEFA and FIFA...	Italian	1953	1989	footballer
Malik Sealy Malik Sealy Malik Sealy was an American professional basketball player, active from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident at the age of 30...	American	1970	2000	basketball player
W. G. Sebald W. G. Sebald W. G. Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature...	German	1944	2001	writer and academic
Mihail Sebastian Mihail Sebastian -Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...	Jewish Romanian	1907	1945	writer
Donald Sellers Donald Sellers Donald Ray Sellers was an American football player, playing professionally at wide receiver for the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe....	American	1974	2001	football player
Mike Sharperson Mike Sharperson Michael Tyrone Sharperson was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Toronto Blue Jays , Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves . Sharperson batted and threw right-handed...		1961	1996	Baseball player
Alexis Gewertz Shepard Alexis Gewertz Shepard Alexis Gewertz Shepard was a folk singer-songwriter. She led the Alexis Shepard Band, also including John Rapoza, Jerry O'Hare, and Mike Aiello. She was hit by a truck and died while riding her bicycle in Cambridge, Massachusetts...		1969	1998	folk singer-songwriter
Larisa Shepitko Larisa Shepitko -Early Life:She went to the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow as a student of Alexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovzhenko's for 18 months until he died in 1956. Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize winning diploma film Heat, made when she was 22 years old...	Soviet Russia	1938	1979	film director
Alexander Fu Sheng Alexander Fu Sheng Alexander Fu Sheng was a major Hong Kong martial arts film star in the 1970s.-Biography:...	Hong Kong	1954	1983	martial arts actor
Gene Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker , American geologist, was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science....	American	1928	1997	(astro)geologist and astronomer	Car		Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	Head-on collision on the Tanami Road near Alice Springs.
Karen Silkwood Karen Silkwood Karen Gay Silkwood was an American labor union activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood's job was making plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods...	American	1946	1974	labor activist
Wayne Simmons Wayne Simmons (American football) Wayne General Simmons was an American football linebacker in the National Football League.Simmons, an integral part of Clemson's #1 ranked defense in 1990, was drafted by the Green Bay Packers with the 15th pick of the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft. Simmons played for Green Bay for four and a...	American	1969	2002	American football player
Peter Slaghuis Peter Slaghuis Peter Slaghuis was a Dutch DJ, producer and remixer, whose work was mostly released under the name Hithouse ....	Nederland	1961	1991	DJ Disc jockey A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys... , producer Record producer A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...  and remix Remix A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song .... er	Car
Bessie Smith Bessie Smith Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s...	American	1894	1937	blues singer
Darren Smith	Australian	1965	1992	cyclist	Cycling	bike	Gold Coast Gold Coast, Queensland Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...  road	Just months after competing at the Barcelona Olympics Gold Coaster Smith was killed in a road accident while training. The coastal training route along the Gold Coast Oceanway Gold Coast Oceanway The Gold Coast Oceanway is a foreshoreway along beaches in Gold Coast, Queensland. The Gold Coast Oceanway is a shared use pedestrian and cyclist pathway on the Gold Coast, connecting the Point Danger lighthouse on the New South Wales and Queensland border to the Gold Coast Seaway...  and various cycling events have been named in his honour.
Horace Smith-Dorrien Horace Smith-Dorrien General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC was a British soldier and commander of the British II Corps and Second Army of the BEF during World War I.-Early life and career:...	British	1858	1930	soldier
Ronnie Smith	British		2003	motorcycle racer and journalist	Scooter
Dan Snyder Dan Snyder Daniel Snyder was a professional Canadian ice hockey player. He played as a centre in the National Hockey League for the Atlanta Thrashers...	Canadian	1978	2003	ice hockey player
Bahattin Sofuoğlu Bahattin Sofuoglu Bahattin Sofuoğlu, , was a successful motorcycle racer for the Turkish Honda team.As the son of a motorcycle dealer, he started racing in 1997 at the age of nineteen...	Croatian	1978	2002	motorcycle racer
François Sterchele François Sterchele François Sterchele was a Belgian footballer who played for Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006-07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on May 8, 2008.-Club career:...	Belgian	1982	2008	soccer player
Lynn Strait Lynn Strait James Lynn Strait was the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Snot. He died in a car accident on December 11, 1998 at the age of 30.-Biography:...	American	1968	1998	vocalist with Snot
Italo Svevo Italo Svevo Aron Ettore Schmitz , better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer and businessman, author of novels, plays, and short stories.- Biography :...	Italian	1861	1928	writer

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• Koki Takahashi (1987–2011), Japanese motorcycle racer
• Tomoyuki Taniguchi (1961–1990), Japanese athlete
• Otilino Tenorio
  Otilino Tenorio
  Otilino Tenorio was an Ecuadorian footballer.-Biography:Tenorio was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His nickname was 'Spiderman', because when he scored a goal in a football match he would cover his head with a Spider-Man mask as he celebrated.He joined Emelec of Guayaquil when he was eleven, and went...
  
   (1980–2005), Ecuadorian footballer
• Derrick Thomas
  Derrick Thomas
  Derrick Vincent Thomas , nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League . He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted fourth overall in the 1989 NFL Draft...
  
   (1967–2000), American football player
• Thuy Trang
  Thuy Trang
  Thuy Trang was a Vietnamese American actress. She was best known for her role as Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series.-Early life:...
  
   (1973–2001), American actress
• Stacey Toran
  Stacey Toran
  Stacey Toran was an American football defensive back. He played for the Los Angeles Raiders for five seasons. He was killed in an automobile accident. A native of Indianapolis and a graduate of Broad Ripple High School, Toran was a member of the Broad Ripple 1980 IHSAA Boys' Basketball State...
  
   (1961–1989), American football player
• Judy Tyler
  Judy Tyler
  Judy Tyler was an American actress.-Early life and career:Born Judith Mae Hess in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she came from a show business family and was encouraged to study dance and acting...
  
   (1932–1957), American actress
• Nicola Trussardi
  Nicola Trussardi
  Nicola Trussardi was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur.-Career:Trussardi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy....
  
   (1942–1999), Italian Fashion Designer
• Viktor Tsoy (1962–1990), Russian Poet and Rock-musician

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Name	Nationality	Birth	Death	Occupation	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
José Uribe Jose Uribe José Altagracia González Uribe was a Dominican Major League Baseball shortstop from until . Most of his ten-year career was spent with the San Francisco Giants...	Dominican	1959	2006	Former Major League baseball player	Car		Juan Baron, Palenque Sabana Grande de Palenque Sabana Grande de Palenque is a municipality of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic.-History:It was elevated to the category of municipal district of the San Cristóbal municipality on January 1, 1945 and to the category of municipality in 1997 by the Dominican... , Dominican Republic Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
Joe Unser	American	1896	1929	Indycar driver, 1st Gen. member of the Unser racing family	Car	FWD Coleman Special	US-85 highway, Littleton, Colorado Littleton, Colorado Littleton is a Home Rule Municipality contained in Arapahoe, Douglas, and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Littleton is a suburb of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County and the 20th most populous city in the state of...	Killed whilst testing for the Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis 500 The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...
Javier Urruticoechea Javier Urruticoechea Francisco Javier González Urruticoechea , aka Urruti, was a Spanish footballer who played as a goalkeeper....	Spanish	1952	2001	Football goalkeeper	Car	Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG...	B-20 or Ronda de Dalt, Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... , Spain	impacted central barrier between exits 14 and 15

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Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Notability	Mode of transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details	Source
Vivian Vachon Vivian Vachon Vivian Vachon was a female professional wrestler. She was the sister of wrestlers Maurice and Paul Vachon. She was also the aunt of wrestler Luna Vachon...	Canadian	1951	1991	professional wrestler	Car		near Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... , Quebec Quebec Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....	Her daughter, a passenger in Vachon's vehicle, also died in the crash
Dickie Valentine Dickie Valentine Dickie Valentine was an English pop singer in the 1950s.-Early life:Valentine was born Richard Maxwell , though Valentine was known as Richard Bryce as his mother later married Bryce and gave her young son the same name. He was born in Marylebone, London...	British	1929	1971	Singer	Car	Hillman Avenger Hillman Avenger The Hillman Avenger was a rear-wheel drive small family car originally manufactured under the Hillman marque by the Rootes Group from 1970–1976, and made by Chrysler Europe from 1976–1981 as the Chrysler Avenger and finally the Talbot Avenger...	Glangrwyney, near Crickhowell Crickhowell Crickhowell is a small town in Powys, Mid Wales.-Location:The name Crickhowell is taken from that of the nearby Iron Age hill fort of Crug Hywel above the town, the Welsh language name being anglicised by map-makers and local English-speaking people... , Wales
	American	1957	2011	Adult actress	Car		U.S. Route 83 U.S. Route 83 U.S. Route 83 is one of the longest north–south U.S. Highways in the United States, at . Only four other north–south routes are longer: U.S. Routes 1, 41, 59 and 87. The highway's northern terminus is north of Westhope, North Dakota, at the Canadian border, where it continues as... , Leakey, Texas Leakey, Texas Leakey is a city in and the county seat of Real County, Texas, United States. The population was 387 at the 2000 census. A U.S. Census Bureau estimate of July 1, 2008, placed the population at 359....	Rear-end collision Rear-end collision A rear-end collision is a traffic accident wherein a vehicle crashes into the vehicle in front of it, usually caused by tailgating or panic stops...  into a pickup truck Pickup truck A pickup truck is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area .-Definition:... , did not wear seatbelt at time of accident due that her large breast made it too small to fit her
Ivo Van Damme Ivo Van Damme Ivo Van Damme was a Belgian middle distance runner.Van Damme was born in Dendermonde. He played football until he was 16, but then switched to athletics...	Belgian	1954	1976	middle distance runner (athletics)	Car		Marseille Marseille Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of... , France
Michael Ventris Michael Ventris Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE was an English architect and classical scholar who, along with John Chadwick, was responsible for the decipherment of Linear B.Ventris was educated in Switzerland and at Stowe School...	British	1922	1956	the decipherer of Linear B Linear B Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek. It pre-dated the Greek alphabet by several centuries and seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean civilization...	Car

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Name	Nationality	Birth	Death	Notability	Mode of Transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details
Billy Walker Billy Walker (musician) William Marvin Walker , better known as Billy Walker, was an American country music singer and guitarist best-known for his 1962 hit, " Charlie's Shoes"...	American	1929	2006	country singer	tour van		Interstate 65 Interstate 65 Interstate 65 is a major Interstate Highway in the United States. The southern terminus is located at an intersection with Interstate 10 in Mobile, Alabama, and its northern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 90 , U.S. Route 12, and U.S... , Fort Deposit, Alabama Fort Deposit, Alabama Fort Deposit is a town in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 1,270. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area....	Three passengers in Walker's vehicle — his wife, Bettie, and two members of his band — were also killed. A fourth passenger survived with serious injuries.
Wang Donglei Wang Donglei Wang Donglei was a Chinese footballer. He played for Nanjing Yoyo in Chinese Jia League....	China	1985	2008	footballer	car		Nanjing Nanjing ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions... , Jiangsu Jiangsu ' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...
Chris von Wangenheim Chris von Wangenheim Christoph von Wangenheim was a top professional fashion photographer of the late 1960s through early 1980s.-Biography:Christoph was born in Brieg near Breslau, Germany Christoph von Wangenheim (21 February 1942 – 9 March 1981) was a top professional fashion photographer of the late 1960s...	Germany	1942	1981	fashion photographer	car
Mary Ward Mary Ward (scientist) Mary Ward was an Irish amateur scientist who was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. As the event occurred in 1869, she is the world's first known motor vehicle accident victim...	Ireland	1827	1869	Scientist				possibly the world's earliest road accident fatality
John L. Wasserman John l. Wasserman John L. Wasserman was an entertainment critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1964 until the time of his death in 1979...	American	1938	1979	columnist
Dottie West Dottie West Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...	American	1932	1991	Country singer	Car		Briley Parkway, Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...	A neighbor who drove her to the Grand Ole Opry Grand Ole Opry The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...  after her car stalled lost control at an exit. West believed she was not seriously hurt, but was actually gravely injured; she died from her injuries five days later.
Nathanael West Nathanael West Nathanael West was a US author, screenwriter and satirist.- Early life :...	American	1903	1940	writer
Bluey Wilkinson Bluey Wilkinson Arther George "Bluey" Wilkinson was an international speedway rider. Wilkinson was Speedway World Champion in 1938 after narrowly missing out on winning the inaugural Championship in 1936.-Early life:Wilkinson was nicknamed "Bluey" because of his red hair...	Australia	1911	1940	motorcycle speedway rider	motorcycle
Whayne Wilson Whayne Wilson Whayne Wilson Harris was a Costa Rican professional footballer.-Club career:...	Costa Rica	1975	2005	footballer
Carol Willis	American	1949	1971	Playboy Playmate	Car
Bob Wollek Bob Wollek Bob Wollek , nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He was killed on March 16, 2001 at age 57 in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle back to his accommodation after the day's practice sessions for the following day's race, the 12 Hours of...	French	1943	2001	race car driver	bicycle		U.S. Route 98, Florida U.S. Route 98 in Florida U.S. Route 98 is an east-west United States highway that runs from western Mississippi to southern Florida. It was established in 1933 as a route between Pensacola, Florida and Apalachicola, Florida, and has since been extended eastward across the Florida Peninsula and westward into Mississippi...	Collision with a van driven by an elderly driver
Freda Wright-Sorce Freda Wright-Sorce Freda Wright-Sorce was the wife of Don Geronimo, half of the duo of the Don and Mike Show, a syndicated radio program in the United States...		1955	2005	radio personality
Rolf Wütherich Rolf Wütherich Rudolf Karl Wütherich was a German mechanic and race car driver. The former skydiver was a personal friend of James Dean and became famous for being in the car with the actor in his fatal car crash on September 30, 1955. Wütherich, himself badly injured, received hate mail from Dean fans who...	German	1927	1981	James Dean James Dean James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark... 's passenger during his fatal crash	car	Honda Civic Honda Civic The Honda Civic is a line of subcompact and subsequently compact cars made and manufactured by Honda. The Civic, along with the Accord and Prelude, comprised Honda's vehicles sold in North America until the 1990s, when the model lineup was expanded...	Kupferzell Kupferzell Kupferzell is a town in the district of Hohenlohe in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The largest neighbouring towns are Künzelsau and Schwäbisch Hall . The town is named after the Kupfer river that flows through it....	Was DUI Driving under the influence Driving under the influence is the act of driving a motor vehicle with blood levels of alcohol in excess of a legal limit...  when he fatally crashed.
N.C. Wyeth	American	1882	1945	artist and illustrator

X, Y, Z

Name	Birth	Death	Nationality	Notability	Mode of transport	Vehicle	Accident location	Details	Source
	1981	1999		Country Musume Country musume is an all-female Japanese pop group within Hello! Project.- History :Country Musume was formed in 1999 and was billed as "Country Girls from Hokkaidō". The initial group consisted of members and Hokkaidō natives Rinne Toda, Azusa Kobayashi, and Hiromi Yanagihara....  singer
	1968	1991	Soviet	footballer
	1941	1997		Nintendo Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....  executive
	1977	2005		ice hockey player
	1926	1983		American football player
	1977	2004	Moroccan	footballer
	1958	1983	Russian	alpine skier
	1847	1878	Russian	mathematician

See also

• List of deaths by motorcycle accidents
• List of racing drivers who died in racing crashes
• List of professional cyclists who died during a race