List of road accidents
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List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those that have a large death toll
, occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other historical significance. For crashes that killed famous people, refer to List of people who died in road accidents. The prevalence of bus accidents in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency.
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's second steam-powered
vehicle is said to have crashed into a wall during a test run, in what would have been the first automobile accident. However, it is disputed that this ever happened. According to Georges Ageon the earliest mention of this occurrence dates from 1801 and it does not feature in contemporary accounts.
, Mary Ward
was thrown from the car and fell under the wheels as it rounded a bend. This is believed the first recorded automobile death. The car was built by her cousins, the sons of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
. 17 August 1896 UK – Bridget Driscoll
is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car accident, and the first pedestrian victim of an automobile accident in the United Kingdom. As she 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 give demonstration rides. 25 February 1899 UK – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer are thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex
, London, and killed. Sewell's death is the first fatality of a driver recorded. 13 September 1899 – Henry H. Bliss is the first person killed by a car in the United States.
is killed in a car accident in Küssnacht am Rigi, near Lake Lucerne
, Schwyz
, Switzerland
.
bus crashes into a lorry and catches fire near Cheltenham
, Gloucestershire
, killing 9 airmen and injuring 13.
lorry crashes into a house at Burley in Wharfedale
, Yorkshire
, killing 19 soldiers. October UK – A United States Army
bus collides with a lorry near Marlborough, Wiltshire, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 21.
, Yorkshire, killing 9 people.
, near Glasgow
, Scotland
, killing 8 people and injuring 12.
Kyūshū Sanko regular route bus plunges into pond 40 feet below at , Kumamoto, Kyūshū
, Japan, killing 22 people and injuring 18. UK (Scotland) May – A bus and a tram
collide in Glasgow
, killing 7 people and injuring 43. November 7 Japan – A regular route bus plunges 240 feet into the Mononobe river, Mirabu, eastern Kōchi Prefecture
, Shikoku
, Japan, killing 33 people; another 24 are injured.
, Urakawa, Hokkaidō
, northwestern Shizuoka Prefecture
, killing 24. December 4 UK – Gillingham bus disaster
, Gillingham, Kent
, England.
During evening in a badly-lit area, a bus hits a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps, aged between ten and thirteen years. 24 cadets were killed and 18 injured; at the time it was the greatest loss of life of any road accident in British history. The crash was later ruled accidental.
, near Valkenburg aan de Geul
. The uncontrollable vehicle hits a pedestrian, then a monument and a building. 12 people are killed instantly, 7 (including the pedestrian) die in hospital. 12 November, island of Reunion – The brakes of a bus fail on the downhill slope of Plateau-Caillou, in Saint-Paul
. 27 people are killed, 23 instantly.
hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River
. The driver and 26 children die in what remained the worst school bus accident in U.S. history, until the Yuba City bus disaster of 1976.
killing 45 people, the worst bus accident in German history.
, Ōtsu, Shiga
, Japan, killing 30 people and injuring another 18.
leaves the road and hits a pole, killing 15 people. This is considered the worst road accident in New Zealand history. – April 7 Kenya – A bus returning from an African church meeting plunges into the Tiva River, Mitaboni, Machakos
, Kenya
, killing at least 72 people. – June 10 USA – An open truck carrying 49 Boy Scouts and leaders stalls while climbing a hill enroute to Hole in the Rock (road)
, Utah
, loses its brakes, and plunges into Carcass Wash, killing 13 people.
-Ayacucho
regular route bus plunges 300 feet into a ravine of the Mantaro River
, Peru
, killing 31 people. January 10 Mexico – A bus carrying Zona Centro soccer players and their families plunges 450 feet into a ravine on the outskirts of Dolores Hidalgo
, Guanajuato
, Mexico
, killing 19 people and injuring 22. February 3 Mexico – A regular route bus plunges 300 feet off a cliff along the Mexico
-Ciudad Juárez
expressway on the outskirts of Zacatecas
, Mexico
, killing 25 people and injuring 40. February 10 Egypt – A truck carrying 66 people plunged into a canal on the outskirts of al-Ayyat, Egypt
, killing 36 people. The truck driver is arrested on suspicion of driving without a license. February 18 Italy – A Naples-Salerno
regular route bus plunges 50 feet into a ravine on the Naples-Pompeii
expressway near Mount Vesuvius
, Italy, killing 17 people and injuring 60. November 1 Egypt – A crowded trolley bus plunges into the Nile
on the outskirts of Dokki
, Giza, Egypt
, killing 74 people. December 6 Togo – Two trucks carrying United Nation Peace Keeping Force workers collide at Sotouboua
, Togo
. Togo
lese authorities claim 125 people are killed.
children from vacation plunges off a West German
autobahn bridge and crashes on its roof. 33 people are killed, including 27 children and the bus driver who fell asleep behind the wheel. Only 4 people survive. October 7 Canada – Dorion level crossing accident
: 19 people are killed when a schoolbus is hit by a CN train in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec
.
, killing 14 people. December 15 USA – Silver Bridge
collapses under heavy traffic in Point Pleasant, West Virginia
, killing 46 people.
, a passenger train hits a low-loader transporter and derails killing 11 and injuring 45 in Hixon, Staffordshire
, England. August 18 Japan – Due to intense rain, two charter buses crash into the Hida River
on national highway route 41 in Gero
, Gifu Prefecture
, Japan, killing 104 people.
, Quezon
, Philippines
, plunges into a ravine and bursts into flames. 40 people are killed and another 32 are injured. June 21 Syria – An overcrowded vehicle carrying 35 workers crashes at Mahradah, Al-Amam, killing 25 people. July 18 USA – The Chappaquiddick incident. Although only one person (Mary Jo Kopechne
) was killed when a car drove off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island
, Massachusetts, the crash was notable because the driver was US Senator
Ted Kennedy
, and a political scandal
resulted. August 2 Brazil – A bus falls from Almas Bridge, 30 meters high, near Belo Horizonte
, killing 30 people, the second serious accident in the same place, in less than two years.
– A regular route bus plunges off a mountain cliff on the outskirts of Myongju, Gyeongsangnam-do
, killing 15 people and injuring 20. November 22 Argentina
– A bus plunges into a creek on the outskirts of Reconquista
, Santa Fe Province
, killing 56 people.
– A crowded bus plunges off a 30 feet (9.1 m) cliff, crashing into a reservoir on the outskirts of Kapyong, northeastern Gyeonggi-do
, killing 75 people. 10 May Mexico – Two local buses collide head-on on the Pinotepa National Highway, Florencio Villarveal, Guerrero
, Mexico
, killing 30 people; another 30 are injured. September 5 South Korea
– A Masan
-Jinhae
regular route bus carrying 30 passengers fell 50-yards from a mountain road on the outskirts of Jinhae, Gyeongsangnam-do
, killing 17 people and injuring 16. September 17 Spain – A bus carrying Canadian tourists collided head-on with a truck on the outskirts of Valdepeñas
, Ciudad Real
, Spain, killing 17 people. November 5 South Korea
– A local bus plunged from a 900 feet-high mountain slope at Yeongdo-gu, Busan
, killing 26 people and injuring 30. November 8 Thailand
– A local bus collided head on with atruck on the outskirts of Korat
, Nakhon Ratchasima
, killing 27 people and injuring 20. December 18 Egypt
– A trailer truck carrying local workers plunged into an irrigation canal on the outskirts of Aswan
, killing 50 people.
-Manila
Laguna transit bus collided with a truck, and plunged off the road at Barrio Calamba, Lagana, Philippines, in an incident caused by exceed speed, killing 13 people; another 41 are injured. February 18 Egypt – A crowded bus carrying 90 students overturns and plunges into an irrigation canal at Banha
, Kfar Saad, Egypt
, killing 77 people. March 22 USA – In Congers, New York
on Gilchrest Road, five Nyack High School students are killed and 44 injured when a train hits a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident caused New York State to require school vehicles to stop at all railroad crossings. 25 August Netherlands – In a sudden dense fog on highway A16
near Prinsenbeek
, many cars and trucks collide. 13 lives are lost in the crash and subsequent fires. After this accident, a fog warning system was installed along the route. Nevertheless, almost 20 years later a similar accident happened. September 23 Japan – According to the National Police Agency
of Japan and Japanese Fuji Television
, an Akakura-Togakushi
regular route bus carrying 82 passengers plunged into a ravine at Shinano, Nagano
, Japan. The NPA reports that this road is single lane. 15 people are killed, and another 67 are injured.
players and fans skidded on an acute curve and plunged into the Chimbarongo River, on the outskirts of San Fernando
, Colchagua Province
, Chile
. The bus was returning from a Chilean soccer league second division match; 35 people were killed in the crash. June 22 Brazil – A bus skidded on an acute curve on highway BR-040
and plunged into the Paraibuna River
, killing 25 people. July 18 France – A bus carrying Belgian
tourists plunges into a ravine in Vizille
, France, killing 43 people. October 13 India – A regular route bus plunged off a bridge on the outskirts of Hazaribagh
, Bihar
, India, killing 74 [people. November 10 Thailand – A truck carrying 60 workers plunged off a steep road on the outskirts of Doi Inthanon
, Chiang Mai
, Thailand
, killing 40 people and injuring 20.
, Brazil
, killing 69 people. September 8 Argentina – A bus returning from religious pilgrimage ran off a road and plunged 750 feet into a canyon on the outskirts of La Vina, Santa Fe Province
, Argentina
, killing 32 people.
, Japan, killing 24 people. March 1 Kenya – An explosion in a Nairobi
-Mombasa
regular route bus in downtown Nairobi, Kenya
, was blamed on Kenyan People Liberation Front, a terrorist group. 26 people killed, another 60 injured. April 2 France – A bus carrying French pilgrims plunged 120 feet into the Ramache River along the highway A58, Vizille
, Rhône-Alpes
, France, killing 28 people, and injuring 17. April 20 Italy – At least 27 vehicles crashed within 15 minutes on the Naples
-Caserta
expressway Autostrada del Sole on the outskirts of Naples, Italy, killing 11 people and injuring 53. 27 May UK – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash
, England: a bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge near Grassington
, North Yorkshire
killing 32 people, and injuring 14. June 15 Austria – A bus carrying elderly tourists plunged 120 feet into a ravine on the outskirts of Villach
, Carinthia
, Austria, killing 21 people and injuring 23. July 29 Mexico – A bus carrying religious pilgrims plunged 200 feet down the side of mountain before coming to rest. The crash was at Chalma, Veracruz
, Mexico
, killing 18 people and injuring 30. 13 September – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Costa Rica
, killing 48 people.
, Guatemala
, killing 38 people; another 14 are injured. May 21 USA – A bus carrying the Yuba City High School
a cappella
choir falls off Interstate route 680
in California
, killing 28 students and a teacher. August 22 Brazil – Former president Juscelino Kubitchek is killed when his car lost control and crashes against a truck on the Dutra Highway. His driver is also killed. October 31 Indonesia – A tourist bus head-on collides with a mini bus at outskirt of Bogor
, West Java
, Indonesia
, in an incident caused when the tourist bus has brake failure, killing 34 people and injuring 25. November 14 Brazil – A bus carrying municipal election candidate and supporters has plunged into river near ferry terminal at Manaus
-Itacoatiara expressway, Uruara
, Pará
, Brazil
, killing 38 people. November 15 – A bus swept by flash flood in Tsoaing River, Thaba Pechela, Mafeteng
, Lesotho
, killing at least 90 people. November 21 France – A mentally school bus returning from Edward Seguin Children Medical Center's meeting, plunged into the River Rhone
, outskirt of Lyon
, France, at least 14 people killed.
, Nile Delta
, Egypt
, killing 19 people. June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight people and injuring 18. July 7 Pakistan. A bus carrying 44 cadets of Pakistan Military Academy, on an excursion, skidded off the road plunging into a 1000 ft deep ravine, near Nathiagali, killing 16 cadets including a Saudi cadet. 28 Cadets were injured seriously along with their Platoon Commander Major Shujjat (a war Hero); they were rescued by cadets of the Pakistan Airforce and civilians including the famous actress Neelo. August 11 Japan – According to the Japanese National Police Agency and NHK
television, a charter bus plunged 120 feet into a ravine at Nagatoro bridge, Kofu
, Yamanashi Prefecture
, Japan, killing 11 people; another 39 are injured.
, Thailand
, killing 25 people; another 86 are injured. January 3 Colombia – A Villavicencio
-Bogotá
regular route bus plunged 130 feet off a cliff on the outskirts of Quetame
, Oriente, Colombia
, killing 30 people; another 16 are injured. January 22 Poland – A truck with steel elements collided with crowded bus of PKS (Polish Road Transport) - killed 15 people and seriously injured 14. March 9 Brazil – A Brasília
-São Paulo regular route bus collided with a gasoline tank truck on the Faria Lima expressway near Barretos
in the state of São Paulo
, Brazil
. The bus driver swerved and lost control, and the vehicle burst into flames, killing 19. Another five are injured. July 11 Spain – Los Alfaques Disaster
: in Sant Carles de la Ràpita
, a tank truck
containing 45 m³ of liquefied propylene leaves the road and veers into the Los Alfaques camping site after colliding with a building. The resulting fire ball
is more than 100 meters in diameter and kills at least 215 people (some sources speak of 216 or even 270), and injures 200 people. 4 August Canada – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman, Quebec
, Canada killing 40 people. Only seven people survive. November 15 Poland – Two buses of PKS (Polish Road Transport) with miners going to work plunged into the river Jezioro Żywieckie near Żywiec, killing 27 miners, one woman and two drivers.
-İzmir
regular route bus carrying 50 passengers aboard failed to navigate a curve and plunged into the Marica River near Sofia
, Bulgaria
, killing 25 people. February 18 Costa Rica – A 40-passenger bus and an 18 passenger bus collided head-on at San Isidro, Heredia Province
, Costa Rica
, killing 16 people, with 39 injured. 3 March – 23 people are burned to death when city bus 62 catches fire in Minsk
, Belarus
after driving into a pool of gasoline spilled from a fuel truck. 5 March India – A bus slammed into a banyan tree, after attempting to overtake a truck on the outskirts of Krishnanagar, West Bengal
, India. 32 people are killed and 42 injured. 9 May USA – 35 people are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida
, after a cargo ship
collided with a bridge pier
, knocking down over 1200 ft. of the bridge. June 5 USA – A tour bus rolls off the highway near Jasper, Arkansas
, killing 22 people and injuring 19. June 10 Ireland; A bus crashes and overturns outside Limerick, Republic of Ireland killing two People and injuring dozens more. June 25 India – A bus carrying 100 passengers lost control and plunged into the Rahand Nullah River, Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh
, India, killing 58 people. June 29 Pakistan – According to the Associated Press of Pakistan
, a bus carrying more than 100 women and children plunges into a canal in Upper Jhelam, near Mirpur, Kashmir of Pakistan
, and at least 90 people drown as a result. June 29 Romania – a bus carrying 83 people went off a bridge and overturned into a deep marsh near Huţani, a village in Vlădeni
commune
, Botoşani County
, killing 48 people and injuring 35. July 4 Philippines – Two passenger buses collided head-on on National Highway Route 1, Camalig
, Albay
, Philippines
, killing 13 people and injuring 28. November 11 Egypt – A bus collided with two trucks, then plunged into an irrigation canal near Beni Suef
, Egypt
, killing 30 people and injuring at least 30. November 25 India – A Gwalior-Delhi
Delhi Transport bus tumbled into the Chambal River
, Dholpur
, Rajasthan
, India, killing 40 people and injuring 30.
, Venezuela
, killing 36 people and injuring 31. April 9 Nicaragua –; An Nicaraguan Army's jeep and head-on collided with a regular route bus at outskirt of Estelí
, Nicaragua
, killing twenty people and injuring forty. April 14 India – A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims swerved to the left of the road, and navigating a turn with brakes failed, caught fire at Srisailam
, Andhra Pradesh
, India, killing 61 people. July 7 India – A bus skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge at outskirt of Kawanpui, Mizoram
, India, killing 32 people and injuring 19. June 14 Pakistan – A bus plunged 300-feet into a ravine at Kohat Pass
, Kohat
, Pakistan
, killing 23 people and injuring 25. August 12 India – An Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation regular route bus plunged into a 450-feet deep ravine along a mountain road in Pithorgarh, Uttar Pradesh
, India, killing 43 people. September 9 Brazil – A truck rammed a bus on an acute curve and forced it over a 330-foot cliff near Santos, state of São Paulo
, Brazil
, killing 29 people and injuring 14. September 29 Spain – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Toledo
province, Spain, kills at least 25 people. October 14 India – A public bus plunged into foothills at outskirt of Simla
, Himachal Pradesh
, India, killing 40 people and injuring 45.
, Isa Khan
, Bangladesh
, killing at least 28 people; another 40 are injured. 31 January Chile – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile
, killing 14 people and injuring 70. March 27 Mexico – A Toluca
-Mexico City
Passenger bus head-on collided with a trailer truck at outskirt of Mexico City, in an incident caused by condition of rain with narrow road, at least twenty-eight people dead and injuring 32. 1 August France – Two buses carrying children collide with cars and burst into flames in Beaune
, France, killing 53 people, including 44 children. Worst highway crash in France. September 9 – An express train collided with a bus at outskirt of Szekesfehervar
, Fejér County, Hungary
, killing at least sixteen passengers. 12 September – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near Zürich
, Switzerland
, killing 39 people. The barriers were not closed, because the operator pressed a wrong button. Only two passengers survive the crash. 13 September Monaco – Grace, Princess of Monaco
drove her Rover P6 off of a serpentine roadway and down a mountainside, perhaps after suffering a stroke. She died the next day. 3 November – Hundreds are allegedly killed in the Salang tunnel fire
in central Afghanistan, after a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as great as 2,000 dead. November 25 India – An overloaded truck spun out of control and flipped over near Kaitanol, Karnataka, India, killing at least 18 people and injuring 14. December 26 – A passenger bus plunged into a river at Brahmanbari, Bangladesh, at least forty-five people dead and eighty injured.
crashed into a mainline toll booth on the Connecticut Turnpike
in Stratford, Connecticut
, after brake failure, killing six people and injuring four.
February 11 – A Salonica-Athens
express bus head-on collided with a truck at outskirt of Amfikleia
, Phthiotis
, Greece, in an incident caused by both vehicles exceeding the speed limit, killing seventeen people and injuring ten. February 13 – A passenger bus head on collided with a truck, when driver trying to pass a car at outskirt of Şanlıurfa
, Turkey
, killing twenty people and injuring ten. March 2 – A charter bus plunged off mountainous highway into Mantaro River
, Jauja
, Junín Region
, Peru
, killing thirty people. November 1 – A bus collides with a motorcycle
and hits a second bus 370 miles northeast of Bangkok
, Thailand
, killing 21 people and injuring 40. December 4 – A regular route bus crashed into a utility pole and caught fire on the outskirts of Bogotá
, Colombia
, in an incident caused by technical problems and excessive speed, killing 21 people. Another five people are injured.
-Nangai regular route bus plunged 14 feet into a canal and sank at the Sarsa Bridge on the outskirts of Rapar
, Punjab
of India, killing 80 people. August 1 India – A bus carrying local government employees plunged into a canal after its right front tire burst. The crash, on the outskirts of Ingraj Bazar, West Bengal
, India, killed 40 people. August 1 – A bus skidded on a wet road, lost control and plunged into the Indus River
on the Karakoram Highway, Baiji Sharif, northern Pakistan
, killing 27 people. August 26 – A bus slipped and plunged into a 13-feet deep irrigation canal near Salkot
, Nepal
, killing 25 people. September 5 – A bus carrying 50 passengers plunged into a 3300 feet (1,005.8 m) gorge near Shillong
, Meghalaya
, India, in an incident caused by the driver losing control on an acute curve with dense fog. 29 people are killed, and another 25 are injured. September 24 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh
, India, killing 42 people and injuring 15. November 25 – A bus returning from the shore of the Black Sea collided with a lorry in dense fog at northern Cankiri
, Turkey
, at least thirty people dead and injuring twenty-four. December 23 – An overcrowded passenger bus plunged off a expressway at Apaseo Grande, Guanjuato, Mexico
, at least twenty-two people dead and injuring thirty-five. December 24 – An overcrowded bus with ninety passengers skidded off a steep bank on Wapadsberg Mountain, Craddock-Graaff Region, Eastern Cape
, South Africa
, at least 42 people dead and injuring 25.
, Chungcheongbuk-do
, South Korea
, killing 38 people. January 28 – A bus carrying skiers plunges into a reservoir in Nagano
, Japan killing 25 people. March 27 – A school bus crashed through a barier and plunged into a dam killing 42 school children Westdene
, Gauteng
, South Africa
. It is known as the Westdene dam disaster
April 6 – A regular route bus suffered brake failure and plunged 20 feet at Bherughat, Madhy Pradesh, India, killing 16 people and injuring 39. April 20 – A bus plunged 500 feet down the side of road at outskirt of Hibberdene
, Natal
, South Africa
, killing 18, another injuring are 29. June 11 – A bus carrying school children on a field trip collides with a train near Moshav
Habonim
, Israel; 21 people killed, including 19 children. July 21 – A bus carrying 42 passengers returning from a Buddhist ordination ceremony collided head-on with a truck at an intersection in a suburb of Bangkok
, Thailand
, killing 26 people and injuring 16. July 21 – A bus overturned after brake failure and ran through a crowded market at Halsema expressway, Atok
, Benguet
, Philippines
, killing 28 people and injuring 70. 22 September – A school bus rolls over in Layyah
, Pakistan
, killing 30 children. 21 October UK – A coach
collides with stationary traffic due to construction work on the M6 motorway
, in Lancashire between Preston
and Lancaster
, killing 13 people. December 21 – A São Paulo
-Rio de Janeiro
Cometa Transport bus veered off the road and into Guandu River, outskirt of Piraí
, Rio state, Brazil
, killing 22 people.
, Gujarat, India, killing 49 people and injuring ten. April 26 India – A bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine where plunged off a cliff at outskirt of Kathgodam
, Uttarakhand
, India, killing 44 people. May 12 South Africa – An overcrowded bus lost control due to brake failure and flipped over near Mount Frere, Eastern Cape, Transkei
, South Africa
, killing 30 people. Another 64 people are injured. 23 May Philippines – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province
, Philippines
, killing 23 people and injuring 15. 30 May USA – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River
near Walker, Mono County, California
, killing 21 people and injuring 19. June 17 Peru – A bus carrying 40 passengers, including school children, plunged off a highway and into an irrigation ditch near Canete
, Peru
, killing 19 people and injuring 17. June 22 China – Two buses carrying Baobaoshan rural factory workers plunged 800-feet before an acute curve in the Mount Wutai area, Shanxi
, China, killing 31 people and injuring 35. July 26 UK – Lockington rail crash
: A train derails after colliding with a Ford Escort at a rail crossing in Lockington
, Yorkshire, England, killing 8 people aboard the train and one aboard the car. October 8 Taiwan – A tourist bus plunges 33-yards down a valley onto a river bank at East-West Cross Island Expressway, outskirt of Taichung
, Taiwan
, killing 39 people. October 21 – Two packed buses hit by a passenger express train at Landhi
, Karachi
, Pakistan
, both bus driver tried to reach waiting passenger train and often are involved accidents, killing 35 people and injuring 24. November 3 – A bus crashed into road side at outskirt of Murshidabad
, West Bengal
, India, killing 33 people and injuring 28.
, state of São Paulo
, Brazil
, killing fifteen people and injuring eleven. January 21 Chile – A truck and a bus collide near Temuco
, Chile
, killing 43 people. February 23 Nigeria – A bus carrying a wedding party skidded off an express way at outskirt of Nsukka
, Anambra State
, Nigeria
, killing 35 people. 29 March China – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi
, China, killing 19 people and injuring 28. May 6 Thailand – A bus carrying university students and teachers rammed into the side of a mountain near Kanchanaburi
, Sri Sawat, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 27. July 7 Germany – A tank truck carrying gasoline crash and hit ice-cream parlor at Herborn
, Lahn-Dill-Kreis
, Hesse
, Germany, killing thirty people and injuring 29. July 26 Brazil – A drunk bus driver crashes his bus against another bus, in highway BR-040
, near Belo Horizonte
, killing 69 people, the worst road accident to date in Brazil. July 30 India – A regular route bus into Yanto canal at outskirt of Dakpatthar, Uttar Pradesh
, India, killing 39 people. October 20 – A bus veered into a high-voltage power pole and caught fire after colliding with another bus at Al-Kufaytah, Nahr-an-nil, Sudan
, killing 64 people. 28 October UK – A diesel tank truck
collides with stationary traffic on the M61 motorway
near Preston
, Lancashire
, killing 12 people and injuring 6. December 11 Egypt – A bus carrying local primary school children returning from the Guiza zoo was smashed by a fast-speed train at an unmarked railroad level crossing at Ein Sham, on the outskirts Cairo
, Egypt
, killing 62 children and injuring 67. December 27 Algeria – A passenger bus and two trucks carrying illegal passengers collided near Bouandas, Sétif
, Algeria
, killing 32 people and injuring 19.
, near Jérémie
, Grand'Anse Department
, Haiti
, killing 70 people. February 15 – A bus plunged into a 170-foot ravine near Pallasca Province
, Ancash Region
, Peru
, killing 14 people. April 10 – An overcrowded regular route bus blew a front tire and plunged into an irrigation canal near Mueang Chainat
, Chainat Province
, Thailand
, killing 42 people and injuring 11. April 20 Thailand – A local bus collided with a paramilitary troop tank at Nakhon Ratchasima
, Thailand
. The resulting explosion killed 25 people and injured nine. 14 May USA – 27 people die in the Carrollton bus disaster near Carrollton, Kentucky
, after a collision with a drunk driver driving the wrong way on Interstate 71
. July 18 Brazil – A Londrina
-Campinas
regular route bus swerved to avoid three cows crossing national road 369, then struck the rear of another bus near Cornelio Procopio
, Parana
, Brazil
, killing 39 people. 12 August Iran – Two buses collide on the highway between Tehran
and Tabriz
in northern Iran
, killing 30 people and injuring 50. 15 August Norway – 16 people, including 12 children, die in the Måbødalen bus accident when a bus rams into a concrete wall in a tunnel 60 miles east of Bergen, Norway
. August 23 Austria – A Hungarian tour bus lost control and slammed into a truck at Schwadorf
near Vienna
, Austria, killing 14 people and injuring 11. 22 September India – A bus falls into a ravine near Simla
, India
. 35 people die. September 25 India – A bus plunged into Bhakra canal, smashing through the safety railing of a bridge near Jogwala, Sangrur district
, Punjab
, India, killing 67 people. October 6 – A Kafr el Sheikh-Baltim
regular-route bus was hit by a flatbed trailer on the outskirts of El-Mahalla El-Kubra
, Egypt
, killing 28 people and injuring 21. October 9 – A Guhawati-Nalburi regular-route bus skidded off a road and crashed into a flooded pond on the outskirts of Guwahati
, Assam
, India, killing 50 people. October 12 – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi
, China
, killing 43 people and injuring 40. October 21 – Three separate buses collided with a refrigerator truck and overturned at Martorell
, Catalonia
, Spain, killing 14 people and injuring 65.
. February 24 – A Bahia
-Brasília
regular route bus head-on collided with a truck carrying a load of corn at outskirt of Catalão
, Goiás
, Brazil, killing 16 people and injuring 25. February 26 – A bus plunged 330-feet into a deep valley at outskirt of Taoyuan City
, Taiwan
, killing twelve people and injuring 24. May 19 – A Lima
-Huancayo
regular route bus carrying sixty passengers slammed on brakes to avoid a pile of construction blocking bridge, and plunged 90 feet into a Mantaro River
, outskirt of Jauja
, Junín Region
, Peru
, killing 45 people. India June 7 – A bus plunged 100-feet into a ravine at outskirt of Baramulla
, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing fifty people and injuring twenty. June 24 Brazil – Two vehicles of São Paulo
-Rio Grande do Norte regular route buses tumbled down a 100-feet embankment at Outskirt of Estancia
, Sergipe
, Brazil
, killing 31 people and injuring fifty. July 16 Japan – A landslide caused by intense rain collapsed a tunnel, striking a minibus and killing 15 people at Echizen
, Fukui Prefecture
, Japan. October 8 Canada – 13 adults and children are killed and 30 are injured near Shediac, New Brunswick, when a transport truck carrying logs spilled its cargo while passing a loaded hayride. October 20 Australia – The Grafton bus crash
- A Sydney
-Brisbane
Sunliner Coaches tourist bus collided head-on with a tractor trailer truck near Grafton, New South Wales
, Australia, killing 21 people and injuring 22. 22 December Australia – 35 people are killed in the Kempsey bus crash
on the Pacific Highway
near Kempsey, New South Wales
. December 24 – A regular route bus plunged into a procession at Nag-el-Hobeiki, Luxor
, Egypt
, killing 13 people and injuring 8.
(FRU) riot police personal were killed in a collision
between FRU riot police vehicles, tanker lorry, passenger bus
and 10 cars
on the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway, Malaysia. 20 March United States – Whilst on tour, a semi trailer rammed into a tour bus
containing singer Gloria Estefan
, husband Emilio
, their son and three other passengers at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, severely injuring Gloria. Following extensive surgery, she returned to an international tour ten months after the accident. 22 April Cuba – Two buses collide in Havana
, Cuba
, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 13. June 3 France – A Shropshire
based double-decker coach
bus suffered a blowout of the front tyre on the autoroute A6
near Auxerre
when it was 20 mph in excess of the speed limit, causing the 76-seat coach to crash, killing 11 people and injuring 61 British tourists, all returning from Costa Brava
. This resulted in a legal action against Avon Rubber
, manufacturer of the tyre of the crash coach, its driver and his employer; resulting in the longest legal case in France 8 July USSR – A bus ignores a barrier at a railroad crossing and collides with a passenger train near Petrozavodsk
, Karelia
, Russia, killing 27 people (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. The bus driver is injured slightly. September 20 – A mini-van skidded on the slippery road rammed inter-city bus exceeded speed and plunged off the road, and another inter-city bus hit into disaster site with rescuers working at outskirt of Semarang
, Central Java
, Indonesia
, killing 33 people and injuring 17. September 24 – A truck carrying two unsecured 20,000-liter liquefied petroleum gas tanks overturned on New Phetchaburi Road, downtown Bangkok
, Thailand
. The explosions and resulting fires consumed 43 vehicles and many buildings in the area, killing 59 people and injuring 89. November 4 – A bus carrying former president Chun Doo-hwan
devotees hit by truck and plunged Koonchook bridge, Soyang
, Gangwon-do
, South Korea
, killing 21 people, another injuring are 21. 9 November Netherlands – Almost at the same spot and with the same cause of the August 25, 1972 accident: in sudden dense fog on highway A16 west of Breda
, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 people die and 28 are injured. November 10 USSR – A bus collided passenger train and crushed at outskirt of Sverdlovsk, Yarnal Nenets Oblast, Russia, killing 16 people, another 13 are injured. 22 November USSR – A bus ignores a red light and collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Donetsk
, Ukraine
, killing 19 people and wounding 13, though the bus driver is not injured. December 11 USA – A 99 car pile-up due to fog on Interstate 75
near Calhoun, Tennessee
results in 12 deaths and 42 injured. December 2 India – A bus carrying wedding party plunged down a ravine at outskirt of Nainital, Uttar Pradesh
, India, killing 30 people, another 20 are injured. 30 December USSR – 56 people die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway between Voronezh
and Rostov-on-Don
in southwestern Russia.
, Central Province
, Kenya
, in an incident caused by driver losing control and excessive speed, killing 47 people, another 40 are injured. January 13 – A Dapitan
-Dipolog
regular route bus plunged into a river at outskirt of Sindangan
, Zamboanga del Norte
, Philippines
, killing 25 people. 15 February – A trailer truck carrying dynamite explodes at Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga
, Thailand
killing 171 local villagers. March 13 UK – 1991 M4 Motorway crash
: 10 people die in a 45 vehicle pile up in foggy conditions on the M4 motorway near Hungerford. 31 July USA – A bus carrying about 60 Girl Scouts overturns on a desert mountain road near Highway 111, killing 7 people. 4 August Zimbabwe – A crowded bus carrying school children loses control and crashes in Troutbeck, Manicaland
, Zimbabwe
, killing 87 people, including 82 children. 7 August Austria – The brakes of a Hungarian
tourist bus fail in Styria, killing 15 people and injuring 28. November 29 USA – A dust storm on Interstate 5
near Coalinga, California
triggers a 164-vehicle pile up that leaves 17 people dead and 150 injured. 6 December Spain – A 25-vehicle pile-up crash due to dense fog on Autovía A-8
near Amorebieta-Etxano
, Basque Country
kills 17 people and injures 50. A spark sets the pile of cars afire.
, Bangladesh
, killing 25 people. April 3 – A regular route bus with eighty passengers exploded and caught fire, and passengers jumping from out of window, because of broke open a door at outskirt of Yiyang
, Hunan
, China, killing 55 people. April 12 South Africa – A bus carrying seventy school children ripped apart, after crashing into Buffalo River
bridge, Dundee
, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
, killing 33 people. April 18 Argentina – A Buenos Aires
-Mar del Plata
regular route bus smashed with three vehicles and foggy condition at outskirt of Mar del Plata, Argentina
, killing 32 people and injuring 26. 19 August – A bus falls down an embankment on the A7
highway in Spain, killing 45 and injuring 11. 6 September Germany – Near Donaueschingen
in the Black Forest
, a bus collides into a passenger car and is slit open by a crash barrier. 21 people die, 32 are injured seriously. September 27 Nepal – A truck plunged 450 feet below at outskirt of Dhankuta
, Nepal
, killing 21 people. September 27 Hungary – A minibus carrying German travellers collided with local train crossing at Agárd
, Hungary
, killing 16 people, another three are injured. October 9 Brazil – A bus carrying October Revelers entertainment group drove off a mountain road and plunged down cliff at outskirt of Sao Luis do Puruna, Parana
, Brazil
, killing 34 people.
, Argentina
, killing 55 people and injuring 70. April 30 – A passenger train hit a bus carrying children of Shergli Primary schools at unguarded railroad crossing at Phutthamonthon
, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand
, killing 36 people including 28 children. May 13 Russia – A Sogratl-Makhachkala
regular route bus plunged into 260-feet george at outskirt of Gunib
, Caucasus Mountains
area, Dagestan
, Russia, killing 25 people. May 27 Peru – A bus carrying Santiago de Chocorvos Conference business owners plunged 160-feet from road near foothill at outskirt of Ica
, Peru
, in an incident caused by mechanical failure, killing 21 people and injuring eleven. July 24 Indonesia – A Surabaya
-Pandanwangi passenger train rammed into an intercity bus an unguarded railroad crossing, and a bus dragged for eighty-yard before the train halted at Jombang
, West Java
, Indonesia
, killing fifteen people and injuring twenty. October 3 Kenya – A multipile road disaster, including a passenger bus, truck and many vehicles are crashed at Nakuru-Eldoret
road, Nakuru
, Kenya
, killing 35 people and injuring 41. 10 November – A fiery pile-up on autoroute A10
near , France leaves 15 people dead and 53 injured. 17 November UK – The M40 minibus crash
leaves 12 children dead when their minibus collides with a maintenance vehicle near Warwick
, England, causing new road security campaigns. December 27 Brazil – An overloaded Curitiba-Porto Alegre
regular route bus collided with sports car and plunged into a ravine at outskirt of Curitiba
, Parana
, Brazil
, killing 41 people, another 79 are injured.
, China, killing 45 people. January 11 South Africa – A Cape Town
-Durban
laxury bus plunged off a bridge at between Bethlehem
and Harrismith
, Orange Free State
, South Africa, killing 14 people, another 27 are injured. January 31 Vietnam – A regular route bus caught fire and plunged into 300-feet below of sea at national highway 1, Ca Pass, Khanh Hoa Province
, Vietnam
, killing 28 people, another 11 are injured. March 14 India – A bus carrying 75 passengers swerved off an iron and concrete bridge into a fast flowing river in Kadava
, Maharashtra
, India, killing 64 people. 2 May – Poland bus disaster of 1994
: 32 people die in collision between a Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej transport agency bus and a tree near Gdańsk
. May 24 India – A bus rolled down a mountainside road at outskirt of Shimla
, Himachal Pradesh
, India, killing 14 people, another 11 are injured. May 26 South Africa – A bus lost control and plunged into dam at Lothain, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa
, killing 36 people. May 26 South Africa – A minibus head-on collided a truck at outskirt of Middolburg, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa
, killing 13 people. September 1 Ecuador – A bus carrying musical band has lost control, brake failure, and plunged 600-feet down a highway embankment at outskirt of Mitad del Mundo
, Pichincha
, Ecuador
, killing 50 people. October 16 Nepal – A commuter bus plunged off a mountain road and fell 600-feet at outskirt of Amarai, Narayani
, Nepal
, killing 15 people, another 21 are injured.
city, Mexico
, killing 22 people and injuring ten. February 5 Colombia – A bus collided with a truck carrying cement near Ponedera
, Atlántico Department
, Colombia
, killing 13 people. March 12 – A truck carrying benzene rammed a bus outside Sriperumbudur
, Tamil Nadu
, India, killing 110 people.
, Mexico
, killing 23 people, another 50 are injured. January 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo – A Kinshasa-Kingasani regular route bus plunged a ravine and skidded off a main road at Kimbanseke
area, Kinshasa
, Democratic Republic of the Congo
, killing 72 people. February 10 Japan – A huge shard of rock weighing about 21,000 tons smashed through a Toyohama tunnel, national highway route 229, Yoichi
, western Hokkaidō
, Japan, crushing a Shakotan
-Otaru
regular route bus and a car, killing 20 people. 25 February Bolivia – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia
, killing at least 35 people. 28 February Spain – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen
, Spain, killing 29 people and injuring 17. March 17 Saudi Arabia – A bus carrying illegal foreigners has crushed at outskirt of 'Asir, Jizan
, Saudi Arabia
, killing 45 people. April 4 – A Seoul commuter bus plunged at Han River
, Yeouido
, Yeongdeungpo-gu
, Seoul
, South Korea
, killing 20 people, another injuring are 38. September 26 Russia – A local bus hit by passenger train at railroad crossing of near Konnoarmayskaya, Rostov
, Yaroslavl Oblast
, Russia, killing 21 people and injuring twenty. September 29 Japan – A minivan carrying construction workers crashed at national highway route 9, Muraoka, Hyōgo
, Japan, killing 10 people. November 1 Peru – A bus carrying 60 passengers has lost control and plunged off 1500-feet below of cliff at outskirt of San Mateo
, Matucana
, Peru
, killing 39 people, injuring 15.
in Cairo
, Egypt
, killing 39 people and injuring 24. January 19 India – A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab
, India, killing 29 people and injuring 12. 10 March United Kingdom – 3 people killed and 60 injured in 160 vehicle collision
on the M42 motorway
due to fog. March 24 South Korea – A Seoul
bound passenger train smashed into packed local bus, where flipped a vehicle onto railroad side at Namwon
, Jeollabuk-do
, South Korea
, killing fourteen people and injuring twenty. May 8 India – A truck carrying local wedding couples and families are plunged by lost control with overturned at Hamirpur
, Himachal Pradesh
, India, killing 70 people, another 8 are injured. August 31 France – Diana, Princess of Wales
was killed in a Paris underpass along with 2 other passengers. October 13 Canada – Les Éboulements bus accident
in Quebec
, Canada, results in 44 deaths when a bus plunges into a ravine, the worst bus accident in Canadian history. October 24 Turkey – 48 people, most of whom were university students, killed in a collision of an empty gasoline tanker truck and a passenger bus in Karapınar
on Konya
-Ereğli
motorway. The passengers were trapped in the bus when both vehicles got aflame. The accident led to wide debate on fire-safety standarts of passenger buses. October 25 South Africa – A bus smashed into a carrying gasoline tanker truck at Togela River, Port Shepstone, South Africa
. This bus carrying Inkatha Freedom Party
devotees and members. At least 33 people killed. November 6 Cuba – A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province
, Cuba
, killing at least 56 people. November 19 India – An overloaded school bus skidded of a bridge and plunged into the Yamuna
River near the outskirts of New Delhi
, India. The accident resulted in 29 deaths and injuries to around 60 passengers.
district, after the brakes of a bus failed. January 7 Kenya – A Meru
-Nairobi
Kenyan Bus Service regular route bus lost control of the vehicle and plummeted down 100-feet embankment into Nithi river, Kenya, killing 58 people, another 42 are injured. January 13 India – A bus carrying 86 students and parents back from a Murshidabad
picnic site, where skidded in fog with plundge into Bhagirathi River
at Jalangi, West Bengal
, India, in an incident caused by lost control and exceed speed, killing 65 people. April 3 Turkey – A petrol tanker truck collided with a bus of Iran
ian Muslim
s returning from Syria at outskirt of Birecik
, Şanlıurfa
, Turkey, killing 28 people, another 7 are injured. April 15 South Africa – A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
, killing 31 people, including 27 children. August 31 Morocco – A pickup truck carrying attending wedding couples and families head-on collide with another truck at El Jadida
, Assabah
, Morocco
, killing at least 20 people. September 8 Brazil – A tanker truck flips and explodes on a highway north of São Paulo
, Brazil
, setting fire to two buses and killing at least 50 people. December 23 Turkey – An Ankara
-Samsun
regular route bus head-on collided with a fuel truck and burning both vehicle at outskirt of Samsun, northern Turkey, killing 11 people and injuring ten. December 31 USA – 100 cars crashed on an ice-slicked section of Interstate-75 in central Michigan
, killing one and injuring 39.
, Jinzhou
, Liaoning
, China, killing 18 people. January 9 Georgia – A bus carrying funeral mourners ran off the road and plunged into a river below of 750 feet at outskirt of Kazbegi, Khevi
, Georgia
, killing 38 people. January 24 Austria – A bus carrying Hungarian
skiers where plunged off a hillside at outskirts of Deutschlandsberg
, Styria, Austria, killing 18 people, another 32 are injured. 15 March USA – 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois train accident. The train City of New Orleans
collides with a truck and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois
, United States, killing 11 people. &
24 March France & Italy. – 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel
fire. May 9 Nepal – A bus slipped and plunged 680-feet down slope at Kapurbot Bazar, Saiyan, Rapti
, Nepal
, killing 32 people, another 36 are injured. 9 May USA – A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610
in New Orleans, killing 22 people and injuring 24. May 29 Austria – 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel
in Austria. June 7 India – A bus carrying 119 passengers plunged into a lake near Davangere, Karnataka
, India, the accident was caused by excessive speed over bad roads, resulting in loss of control. Another contributing factor was overloading of the bus, with several travellers riding on the roof. The accident resulted in 94 deaths and another 25 were injured. July 18 India – A Kiari-Shimla
HRTC regular route bus carrying 90 passengers aboard plunged into 40-feet deep gorge at outskirt of Bagar
, Himachal Pradesh
, India, killing 18 people, another 55 are injured. July 24 Canada – A trailer truck crashes into cars slowed by roadwork
on Quebec Autoroute 20
near Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing 4 people and injuring 11. A public investigation is launched. 3 September Canada – Dense fog on Highway 401
near Windsor, Ontario
reduces visibility to less than a meter (3 ft) and causes a 87 vehicles pileup and fire that kills 8 people and injures 33. Many vehicles are fused together by the intense heat. September 14 China – A long distance regular route bus overturned and plunged into canyon at outskirt of Kaijiang
, Dazhou, Sichuan
, China, killing 46 people, another 9 are injured. September 25 – A bus went off a highway in foggy weather and crashed at outskirt of Kokstad
, KwaZulu-Natal
, South Africa
, killing 15 people, another 20 are injured. October 11 Indonesia (Java) – A Jakarta
-Bandung
Turanga express bus crashed into cliffside at outskirt of Lembah Hijau, Puncak
, West Java
, Indonesia
, killing 45 people, another 29 are injured. November 19 – A commuter bus collided with many vehicles, include truck, bus at Lagos-Kano expressway at outskirt of Ilorin
, Kwara State
, Nigeria. Aftermath, a bus caught fire on impact. This accident killed 22 people, another 16 are injured. December 30 Pakistan – A Karachi
-Rawalpindi
regular route bus overturned and caught fire at Lahore
-Islamabad
M2 expressway, outskirt of Kallar Kahar
, Punjab
of Pakistan
, in an incident caused by exceed speed, killing 48 people, another 20 are injured.
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, occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other historical significance. For crashes that killed famous people, refer to List of people who died in road accidents. The prevalence of bus accidents in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency.
- See List of road accidents 2000–2009 and List of road accidents 2010–2019
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1700s
1771 France – Nicolas-Joseph CugnotNicolas-Joseph Cugnot
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle...
's second steam-powered
Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products. Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be...
vehicle is said to have crashed into a wall during a test run, in what would have been the first automobile accident. However, it is disputed that this ever happened. According to Georges Ageon the earliest mention of this occurrence dates from 1801 and it does not feature in contemporary accounts.
1800s
August 31, 1869 UK (Ireland)– While riding as a passenger with relatives in an experimental steam carSteam car
A steam car is a light car powered by a steam engine.Steam locomotives, steam engines capable of propelling themselves along either road or rails, developed around one hundred years earlier than internal combustion engine cars although their weight restricted them to agricultural and heavy haulage...
, 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...
was thrown from the car and fell under the wheels as it rounded a bend. This is believed the first recorded automobile death. The car was built by her cousins, the sons of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Knight of the Order of St Patrick was an Irish astronomer who had several telescopes built. His 72-inch telescope "Leviathan", built 1845, was the world's largest telescope until the early 20th century.-Life:He was born in Yorkshire, England, in the city of...
. 17 August 1896 UK – 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...
is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car accident, and the first pedestrian victim of an automobile accident in the United Kingdom. As she crossed the grounds of the Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. More than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in the Palace's of exhibition space to display examples of the latest technology developed in...
in London, she was struck by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company
Anglo-French (automobile)
The Anglo-French was an English automobile manufactured by Leon l'Hollier's Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company of Birmingham from 1896 to 1897; the cars were basically Roger-Benz vehicles modified for the British market....
that was being used to give demonstration rides. 25 February 1899 UK – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer are thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
, London, and killed. Sewell's death is the first fatality of a driver recorded. 13 September 1899 – Henry H. Bliss is the first person killed by a car in the United States.
1935
August 29 Belgium – Queen Astrid of BelgiumBelgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
is killed in a car accident in Küssnacht am Rigi, near Lake Lucerne
Lake Lucerne
Lake Lucerne is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country.The lake has a complicated shape, with bends and arms reaching from the city of Lucerne into the mountains. It has a total area of 114 km² , an elevation of 434 m , and a maximum depth of 214 m . Its volume is 11.8...
, Schwyz
Schwyz
The town of is the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.The Federal Charter of 1291 or Bundesbrief, the charter that eventually led to the foundation of Switzerland, can be seen at the Bundesbriefmuseum.-History of the toponym:...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
1941
October UK – A Royal Air ForceRoyal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
bus crashes into a lorry and catches fire near Cheltenham
Cheltenham
Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, killing 9 airmen and injuring 13.
1944
June UK – A British ArmyBritish Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
lorry crashes into a house at Burley in Wharfedale
Burley in Wharfedale
Burley-in-Wharfedale, is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Menston, Burley is part of Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford . It lies on the A65, approximately fourteen miles north-west of the centre of Leeds and nine miles north of...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, killing 19 soldiers. October UK – A United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
bus collides with a lorry near Marlborough, Wiltshire, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 21.
1947
October UK – A bus crashes into a building at HolmfirthHolmfirth
Holmfirth is a small town located on the A6024 Woodhead Road in the Holme Valley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Centred upon the confluence of the Holme and Ribble rivers, Holmfirth is south of Huddersfield and from Glossop. It mostly consists of...
, Yorkshire, killing 9 people.
1948
January UK – A bus skids into a bus queue at BargeddieBargeddie
Bargeddie is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, just outside the suburban fringe of Glasgow, east of the city centre, and close to the junction of the M73 and M8 motorways. The nearest major town is Coatbridge, to the east...
, near Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, killing 8 people and injuring 12.
1950
February 11 Japan – A Takase-KumamotoKumamoto, Kumamoto
is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Greater Kumamoto has a population of 1,460,000, as of the 2000 census...
Kyūshū Sanko regular route bus plunges into pond 40 feet below at , Kumamoto, Kyūshū
Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....
, Japan, killing 22 people and injuring 18. UK (Scotland) May – A bus and 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...
collide in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, killing 7 people and injuring 43. November 7 Japan – A regular route bus plunges 240 feet into the Mononobe river, Mirabu, eastern Kōchi Prefecture
Kochi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the south coast of Shikoku. The capital is the city of Kōchi.- History :Prior to the Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as Tosa Province and was controlled by the Chosokabe clan in the Sengoku period and the Yamauchi family during the Edo period.- Geography...
, Shikoku
Shikoku
is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshū and east of the island of Kyūshū. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima...
, Japan, killing 33 people; another 24 are injured.
1951
July 15 Japan – A Shimokawai-Chubutenryu regular route bus plunges off the Harada bridge, Tenryū RiverTenryu River
The is a river arising from Lake Suwa in Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, grazing Aichi Prefecture and flowing through western Shizuoka Prefecture in central Honshū, Japan. With a length of , it is Japan's ninth longest river.-Geography:...
, Urakawa, Hokkaidō
Urakawa, Hokkaido
is a town located in Urakawa District, Hidaka, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 14,814 and a density of 21.3 persons per km². The total area is 694.24 km².-External links:* in Japanese...
, northwestern Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...
, killing 24. December 4 UK – Gillingham bus disaster
1951 Gillingham bus disaster
The 1951 Gillingham bus disaster occurred outside Chatham Dockyard, Kent on the evening of 4 December 1951. A double-decker bus ploughed into a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps, aged between ten and thirteen...
, Gillingham, Kent
Gillingham, Kent
Gillingham is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England. It is part of the ceremonial county of Kent. The town includes the settlements of Brompton, Hempstead, Rainham, Rainham Mark and Twydall....
, England.
During evening in a badly-lit area, a bus hits a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps, aged between ten and thirteen years. 24 cadets were killed and 18 injured; at the time it was the greatest loss of life of any road accident in British history. The crash was later ruled accidental.
1954
29 September Netherlands – The brakes and gear box of a Belgian tourist bus fail on the downhill slope of the CaubergCauberg
The Cauberg is a hill in Valkenburg aan de Geul, a city in the Netherlands. The length of the climb is around 1200 m, with a maximum grade of 12%.- Road Cycling :...
, near Valkenburg aan de Geul
Valkenburg aan de Geul
Valkenburg aan de Geul is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.-History:Siege and conquest were characteristic of the history of Valkenburg. Each event is withheld, followed by subsequent restorations. This most definitely holds for the castle perched atop of a hill in the middle of the...
. The uncontrollable vehicle hits a pedestrian, then a monument and a building. 12 people are killed instantly, 7 (including the pedestrian) die in hospital. 12 November, island of Reunion – The brakes of a bus fail on the downhill slope of Plateau-Caillou, in Saint-Paul
Saint-Paul, Réunion
Saint-Paul is the second-largest commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located on the extreme west side of the island of Réunion.Until 1999, near Saint Paul there was the 428 metres tall mast OMEGA Chabrier transmitter.- Transport :...
. 27 people are killed, 23 instantly.
1958
28 February USA – Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster: A school bus in Floyd County, KentuckyFloyd County, Kentucky
Floyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1800. As of 2000, the population was 42,441. Its county seat is Prestonsburg. The county is named for Colonel John Floyd .-History:...
hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River
Levisa Fork River
The Levisa Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, approximately long, in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky in the United States....
. The driver and 26 children die in what remained the worst school bus accident in U.S. history, until the Yuba City bus disaster of 1976.
1959
20 June Germany – A crowded bus collides with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen am Neckar, West GermanyWest Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
killing 45 people, the worst bus accident in German history.
1960
July 24 – A charter bus collides with a regular route bus, the charter bus plunging 270 feet into a valley along the toll road of Mount HieiMount Hiei
is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto, lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga prefectures, Japan.The temple of Enryaku-ji, the first outpost of the Japanese Tiantai sect of Buddhism, was founded atop Mount Hiei by Saichō in 788. Both Nichiren and Honen studied at the temple before...
, Ōtsu, Shiga
Otsu, Shiga
is the capital city of Shiga, Japan. The city was founded on October 1, 1898. As of October 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 338,629 with an average age of 40.7 years and a population density of 905.28 persons per km²...
, Japan, killing 30 people and injuring another 18.
1963
– February 7 – A bus in Northland Region, New ZealandNew 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...
leaves the road and hits a pole, killing 15 people. This is considered the worst road accident in New Zealand history. – April 7 Kenya – A bus returning from an African church meeting plunges into the Tiva River, Mitaboni, Machakos
Machakos
Machakos is a town in Kenya, 64 kilometres southeast of Nairobi. It is the capital of the Machakos District in Eastern Province of Kenya. Machakos Town is a major rural centre, and also a satellite town due to its proximity to Nairobi. Its population is rapidly growing and is 192,117...
, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, killing at least 72 people. – June 10 USA – An open truck carrying 49 Boy Scouts and leaders stalls while climbing a hill enroute to Hole in the Rock (road)
Hole in the Rock (road)
Hole in the Rock is a narrow and steep crevice in the western rim of Glen Canyon, in southern Utah in the western United States. Together with another canyon on the eastern side of the Colorado River, it provided a route through what would otherwise be a large area of impassible terrain.In the...
, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
, loses its brakes, and plunges into Carcass Wash, killing 13 people.
1965
January 1 Peru - A HuancayoHuancayo
Huancayo with a rock') is the capital of the Junín Region, in the central highlands of Peru. It is located in Junín Province, of which it is also capital. Situated near the Mantaro Valley at an altitude of 3,271 meters, it has a population of 377,000 and is the fifth most populous city of the...
-Ayacucho
Ayacucho
Ayacucho is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.Ayacucho is famous for its 33 churches, which represent one for each year of Jesus's life. Ayacucho has large religious celebrations, especially during the Holy Week of Easter...
regular route bus plunges 300 feet into a ravine of the Mantaro River
Mantaro River
The Mantaro River is a long river running through the central region of Peru. Its Quechua name means "great river".-Geography:The river has its source at Lake Junín at a height of 4.080 m and runs through Junín, Yauli, Jauja, Concepción and Huancayo provinces in Junín Region, then through...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing 31 people. January 10 Mexico – A bus carrying Zona Centro soccer players and their families plunges 450 feet into a ravine on the outskirts of Dolores Hidalgo
Dolores Hidalgo
Dolores Hidalgo Dolores Hidalgo Dolores Hidalgo (in full, Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional is the name of a city and the surrounding municipality in the north-central part of the Mexican state of Guanajuato....
, Guanajuato
Guanajuato
Guanajuato officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato....
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, killing 19 people and injuring 22. February 3 Mexico – A regular route bus plunges 300 feet off a cliff along the Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
-Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...
expressway on the outskirts of Zacatecas
Zacatecas
Zacatecas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is Zacatecas....
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, killing 25 people and injuring 40. February 10 Egypt – A truck carrying 66 people plunged into a canal on the outskirts of al-Ayyat, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 36 people. The truck driver is arrested on suspicion of driving without a license. February 18 Italy – A Naples-Salerno
Salerno
Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
regular route bus plunges 50 feet into a ravine on the Naples-Pompeii
Pompeii
The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning...
expressway near Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting...
, Italy, killing 17 people and injuring 60. November 1 Egypt – A crowded trolley bus plunges into the Nile
Nile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in North Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is long. It runs through the ten countries of Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt.The Nile has two major...
on the outskirts of Dokki
Dokki
El Dokki is a district of greater Giza, Egypt. Dokki is situated on the Western bank of the Nile, directly across from Downtown Cairo.Many Cairene landmarks are located in Dokki, the German school and the embassies of many countries including Russia, Somalia, France, Chad, the Czech Republic and...
, Giza, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 74 people. December 6 Togo – Two trucks carrying United Nation Peace Keeping Force workers collide at Sotouboua
Sotouboua
Sotouboua is a town located in Sotouboua Prefecture in the Centrale Region of Togo.- Accident :On 06/12/1965, two trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers, killing 125 people. This would have to be one of the worst road accidents on record....
, 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...
. 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...
lese authorities claim 125 people are killed.
1966
25 July Germany – A bus carrying BelgianBelgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
children from vacation plunges off a West German
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
autobahn bridge and crashes on its roof. 33 people are killed, including 27 children and the bus driver who fell asleep behind the wheel. Only 4 people survive. October 7 Canada – Dorion level crossing accident
Dorion level crossing accident
The Dorion level crossing accident occurred on October 7, 1966, when a school bus carrying 40 students was struck by a CN Rail freight train travelling at full speed in Dorion, Quebec, Canada .-Summary:...
: 19 people are killed when a schoolbus is hit by a CN train in Vaudreuil-Dorion, 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....
.
1967
September 13 Brazil – A bus falls from Almas Bridge, near Belo HorizonteBelo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, killing 14 people. December 15 USA – Silver Bridge
Silver Bridge
The Silver Bridge collapsed in 1967, killing 46 people. The terms Silver Bridge or Silverbridge may also refer to:* Silver Memorial Bridge, the replacement for the above bridge, opened in 1969....
collapses under heavy traffic in Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census...
, killing 46 people.
1968
January 6 UK – In the Hixon rail crashHixon rail crash
The Hixon rail crash occurred on 6 January 1968 when a low-loader transporter carrying a 120-ton electrical transformer was struck by an express train on a recently installed automatic level crossing at Hixon, Staffordshire in England.-Background:...
, a passenger train hits a low-loader transporter and derails killing 11 and injuring 45 in Hixon, Staffordshire
Hixon, Staffordshire
Hixon is a village in the borough of Stafford, Staffordshire, England. It is about 8 km east of Stafford at .Hixon was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on May 1, 1849....
, England. August 18 Japan – Due to intense rain, two charter buses crash into the Hida River
Hida River
The has its source in Mount Norikura in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It flows from the northern to the southern section of the prefecture before emptying into the Kiso River in Minokamo.-River communities:...
on national highway route 41 in Gero
Gero, Gifu
is a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The city is famous for its hot springs. The Hida River runs throughout the city.-History:The city was established on March 1, 2004 by the merger of the towns of Gero, Hagiwara, Kanayama and Osaka, and the village of Maze, all from Mashita...
, Gifu Prefecture
Gifu Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu.Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to the west through such routes as the Nakasendō...
, Japan, killing 104 people.
1969
June 6 Philippines – A regular route bus navigating a sharp descending curve on a narrow mountain road near Baler, AuroraBaler, Aurora
Baler is a 4th class municipality in the province of Aurora, Philippines. It is the provincial capital of Aurora. According to the latest census, it has a population of 34,492 people and 5.955 members per household....
, Quezon
Quezon
-History:Originally, what now forms Quezon was divided among the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Nueva Ecija. The area was first explored by Juan de Salcedo in 1571-1572, during his expedition from Laguna to Camarines provinces....
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, plunges into a ravine and bursts into flames. 40 people are killed and another 32 are injured. June 21 Syria – An overcrowded vehicle carrying 35 workers crashes at Mahradah, Al-Amam, killing 25 people. July 18 USA – The Chappaquiddick incident. Although only one person (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...
) was killed when a car drove off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island
Chappaquiddick Island
Chappaquiddick Island is a small island off the eastern end of the larger island of Martha's Vineyard and is part of the town of Edgartown, Massachusetts. The island's name became internationally recognized following the July 18, 1969 incident, for which U.S. Senator Edward M...
, Massachusetts, the crash was notable because the driver was US Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
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...
, and a political scandal
Political scandal
A political scandal is a kind of political corruption that is exposed and becomes a scandal, in which politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices...
resulted. August 2 Brazil – A bus falls from Almas Bridge, 30 meters high, near Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, killing 30 people, the second serious accident in the same place, in less than two years.
1970
September 27 South KoreaSouth Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
– A regular route bus plunges off a mountain cliff on the outskirts of Myongju, Gyeongsangnam-do
Gyeongsangnam-do
Gyeongsangnam-do is a province in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Changwon. It contains the major metropolitan center and port of Busan. Located there is UNESCO World Heritage Site Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple that houses the Tripitaka Koreana and attracts many...
, killing 15 people and injuring 20. November 22 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...
– A bus plunges into a creek on the outskirts of Reconquista
Reconquista, Santa Fe
Reconquista is a city in the north of the , from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the General Obligado Department, and it has 66,187 inhabitants according to the ....
, Santa Fe Province
Santa Fe Province
The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...
, killing 56 people.
1971
10 May South KoreaSouth Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
– A crowded bus plunges off a 30 feet (9.1 m) cliff, crashing into a reservoir on the outskirts of Kapyong, northeastern Gyeonggi-do
Gyeonggi-do
Gyeonggi-do is the most populous province in South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Suwon. Seoul—South Korea's largest city and national capital—is located in the heart of the province, but has been separately administered as a provincial-level special city since 1946...
, killing 75 people. 10 May Mexico – Two local buses collide head-on on the Pinotepa National Highway, Florencio Villarveal, Guerrero
Guerrero
Guerrero officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo....
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, killing 30 people; another 30 are injured. September 5 South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
– A Masan
Masan
Masan was a formerly a municipal city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The city was situated on Masan Bay , approximately 35 km west of Busan. It was known for its textile industry, and it was the site of Hite Brewery's production facilities.During the control of the Mongolians, the...
-Jinhae
Jinhae
Jinhae is a district in Changwon City, South Korea. This region is served by the Korean National Railroad, and is famous for its annual cherry blossom festival every spring....
regular route bus carrying 30 passengers fell 50-yards from a mountain road on the outskirts of Jinhae, Gyeongsangnam-do
Gyeongsangnam-do
Gyeongsangnam-do is a province in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Changwon. It contains the major metropolitan center and port of Busan. Located there is UNESCO World Heritage Site Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple that houses the Tripitaka Koreana and attracts many...
, killing 17 people and injuring 16. September 17 Spain – A bus carrying Canadian tourists collided head-on with a truck on the outskirts of Valdepeñas
Valdepeñas
Valdepeñas is a municipality in the province of Ciudad Real, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is also the seat of the judicial district that covers the localities of Moral de Calatrava, Santa Cruz de Mudela, Viso del Marqués, Torrenueva, Castellar de Santiago and...
, Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real
Ciudad Real is a city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with a population of c. 74,000. It is the capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It has a stop on the AVE high-speed rail line and has begun to grow as a long-distance commuter suburb of Madrid, located 115 miles to the north. A high capacity...
, Spain, killing 17 people. November 5 South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
– A local bus plunged from a 900 feet-high mountain slope at Yeongdo-gu, Busan
Busan
Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...
, killing 26 people and injuring 30. November 8 Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
– A local bus collided head on with atruck on the outskirts of Korat
Korat
Korats are a slate blue-grey shorthair domestic cat with a small to medium build and a low percentage of body fat. Their bodies are semi-cobby, and surprisingly heavy for their size. They are intelligent, playful, active cats and form strong bonds with people. Among Korats' distinguishing...
, Nakhon Ratchasima
Nakhon Ratchasima
Nakhon Ratchasima or is a city in the north-east of Thailand and gateway to Isan. It is the capital of the Nakhon Ratchasima Province and Nakhon Ratchasima district...
, killing 27 people and injuring 20. December 18 Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
– A trailer truck carrying local workers plunged into an irrigation canal on the outskirts of Aswan
Aswan
Aswan , formerly spelled Assuan, is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist centre...
, killing 50 people.
1972
February 15 Philippines – A BatangasBatangas
Batangas is a first class province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. Its capital is Batangas City and it is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east. Across the Verde Island Passages to the south is the...
-Manila
Manila
Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
Laguna transit bus collided with a truck, and plunged off the road at Barrio Calamba, Lagana, Philippines, in an incident caused by exceed speed, killing 13 people; another 41 are injured. February 18 Egypt – A crowded bus carrying 90 students overturns and plunges into an irrigation canal at Banha
Banha
Banha , also spelled Benha, is the capital of the Qalyubia Governorate in north-eastern Egypt. Egyptians call it Banha Elasal, which means "Sweet like honey"; the nomenclature originally comes from when the Prophet Muhammed sent his massage to Elmoqwqs to convert to Islam, he replied by sending him...
, Kfar Saad, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 77 people. March 22 USA – In Congers, New York
Congers, New York
Congers is a hamlet , in the Town of Clarkstown Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Valley Cottage; east of New City, across Lake DeForest, south of Haverstraw and west of the Hudson River. It lies 19 miles north of New York City's Bronx boundary...
on Gilchrest Road, five Nyack High School students are killed and 44 injured when a train hits a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident caused New York State to require school vehicles to stop at all railroad crossings. 25 August Netherlands – In a sudden dense fog on highway A16
A16 motorway (Netherlands)
The A16 motorway is a motorway in the Netherlands. It runs from the interchange Terbregseplein in the northeastern part of Rotterdam, towards the Belgian border near Breda.- Speed limit :...
near Prinsenbeek
Prinsenbeek
Prinsenbeek is a village and a former municipality in the Dutch province North Brabant. The village is situated west of the motorway A16 and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris. Prinsenbeek is a part of the municipality Breda, and it has 11,419 inhabitants . There is a train station on the line...
, many cars and trucks collide. 13 lives are lost in the crash and subsequent fires. After this accident, a fog warning system was installed along the route. Nevertheless, almost 20 years later a similar accident happened. September 23 Japan – According to the National Police Agency
National Police Agency (Japan)
The is an agency administered by the National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office in the cabinet of Japan, and is the central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system....
of Japan and Japanese Fuji Television
Fuji Television
is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
, an Akakura-Togakushi
Togakushi, Nagano
was a village located in Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.On January 1, 2005 Togakushi, along with the village of Ōoka, from Sarashina District, the town of Toyono, and the village of Kinasa, all from Kamiminochi District, was merged into the city of Nagano.As of 2003, the village had...
regular route bus carrying 82 passengers plunged into a ravine at Shinano, Nagano
Shinano, Nagano
is a town located in Kamiminochi District, Nagano, Japan.As of 2005, the town has an estimated population of 9,851 and a density of 65.99 persons per km². The total area is 149.27 km²....
, Japan. The NPA reports that this road is single lane. 15 people are killed, and another 67 are injured.
1973
January 1 Chile – A bus carrying the Condor soccer club of CuricóCuricó
Curicó , meaning "Black Waters" in Mapudungun , is the capital city of the Curicó Province, part of the Maule Region in Chile's central valley....
players and fans skidded on an acute curve and plunged into the Chimbarongo River, on the outskirts of San Fernando
San Fernando, Chile
San Fernando is the capital of the province of Colchagua, in central Chile, and the second most populated urban center of the O'Higgins Region. Located close to the Tinguiririca River in a fertile valley, San Fernando sits 1,112 feet above sea level...
, Colchagua Province
Colchagua Province
Colchagua Province is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins . Its capital is San Fernando. It is bordered on the north by Cachapoal Province, on the east by the Argentine Republic, on the south by Curicó Province, and on the west by Cardenal Caro Province.-Geography and...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
. The bus was returning from a Chilean soccer league second division match; 35 people were killed in the crash. June 22 Brazil – A bus skidded on an acute curve on highway BR-040
BR-040
BR-040 is a federal highway of Brazil. The 1178.7 kilometre road connects Brasilia to Rio de Janeiro....
and plunged into the Paraibuna River
Paraibuna River
The Paraibuna River is a river in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, and a major tributary of the Paraíba do Sul river. It flows through the important commercial and industrial city of Juiz de Fora....
, killing 25 people. July 18 France – A bus carrying Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
tourists plunges into a ravine in Vizille
Vizille
Vizille is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France.Vizille is home to the Musée de la Révolution Française de Vizille, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the French Revolution, housed since 1984 in the Château de Vizille, a Monument Historique. The library...
, France, killing 43 people. October 13 India – A regular route bus plunged off a bridge on the outskirts of Hazaribagh
Hazaribagh
Hazaribagh is a city and a municipality in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is the divisional headquarters of North Chotanagpur division. It is famous as a health resort and for Hazaribagh National Park ....
, Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, India, killing 74 [people. November 10 Thailand – A truck carrying 60 workers plunged off a steep road on the outskirts of Doi Inthanon
Doi Inthanon
Doi Inthanon ) is the highest mountain in Thailand. It is located in Mae Chaem District. The mountain was also known in the past as Doi Luang or Doi Ang Ka, meaning the crow's pond top. Near the mountain's base was a pond where many crows gathered...
, Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province , a former capital of the Kingdom of Lanna and was the tributary Kingdom of Chiang Mai from 1774 until 1939. It is...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, killing 40 people and injuring 20.
1974
28 July – A crowded bus and a truck collide near BelémBelém
Belém is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of state of Pará, in the country's north region. It is the entrance gate to the Amazon with a busy port, airport and bus/coach station...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 69 people. September 8 Argentina – A bus returning from religious pilgrimage ran off a road and plunged 750 feet into a canyon on the outskirts of La Vina, Santa Fe Province
Santa Fe Province
The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...
, 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...
, killing 32 people.
1975
January 1 Japan – A charter bus carrying 62 passengers plunged 100 feet into Aoki Lake, , NaganoNagano, Nagano
, the capital city of Nagano Prefecture, is located in the northern part of the prefecture near the confluence of the Chikuma and the Sai rivers, on the main Japanese island of Honshū.As of April 1, 2011 the city has a population of 387,146...
, Japan, killing 24 people. March 1 Kenya – An explosion in a Nairobi
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...
-Mombasa
Mombasa
Mombasa is the second-largest city in Kenya. Lying next to the Indian Ocean, it has a major port and an international airport. The city also serves as the centre of the coastal tourism industry....
regular route bus in downtown Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, was blamed on Kenyan People Liberation Front, a terrorist group. 26 people killed, another 60 injured. April 2 France – A bus carrying French pilgrims plunged 120 feet into the Ramache River along the highway A58, Vizille
Vizille
Vizille is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France.Vizille is home to the Musée de la Révolution Française de Vizille, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the French Revolution, housed since 1984 in the Château de Vizille, a Monument Historique. The library...
, Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes
Rhône-Alpes is one of the 27 regions of France, located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the Rhône River and the Alps mountain range. Its capital, Lyon, is the second-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris...
, France, killing 28 people, and injuring 17. April 20 Italy – At least 27 vehicles crashed within 15 minutes on the Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
-Caserta
Caserta
Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...
expressway Autostrada del Sole on the outskirts of Naples, Italy, killing 11 people and injuring 53. 27 May UK – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash
Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash
The Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash was a fatal traffic collision that occurred on 27 May 1975 on the B6265 road, Dibble's Bridge, below the Grimwith Reservoir east of Hebden, in the civil parish of Appletreewick in Craven, North Yorkshire, England. Thirty-one elderly passengers and the driver were...
, England: a bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge near Grassington
Grassington
Grassington is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.The town is situated in Wharfedale around from Bolton Abbey and is surrounded by limestone scenery...
, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan or shire county located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial county primarily in that region but partly in North East England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 it covers an area of , making it the largest...
killing 32 people, and injuring 14. June 15 Austria – A bus carrying elderly tourists plunged 120 feet into a ravine on the outskirts of Villach
Villach
Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:...
, 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...
, Austria, killing 21 people and injuring 23. July 29 Mexico – A bus carrying religious pilgrims plunged 200 feet down the side of mountain before coming to rest. The crash was at Chalma, Veracruz
Veracruz
Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, killing 18 people and injuring 30. 13 September – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
, killing 48 people.
1976
March 10 – A regular route bus lost control due to brake failure and plunged down a mountain side in central EscuintlaEscuintla
Escuintla is a city in south central Guatemala. It is the capital of the Escuintla Department and the administrative seat of Escuintla Municipality....
, Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
, killing 38 people; another 14 are injured. May 21 USA – A bus carrying the Yuba City High School
Yuba City High School
Yuba City High School is the oldest running high school in Yuba City, California, USA. The school was home to roughly 3,000 students before River Valley High School was opened in 2005. Their school colors are brown and gold. Their mascot is the "Honker", a nickname for Canadian...
a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
choir falls off Interstate route 680
Interstate 680 (California)
Interstate 680 is a north–south Interstate Highway in Northern California. It curves around the eastern cities of the San Francisco Bay Area from San Jose to Interstate 80 at Cordelia, bypassing cities along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay such as Oakland and Richmond while serving...
in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, killing 28 students and a teacher. August 22 Brazil – Former president Juscelino Kubitchek is killed when his car lost control and crashes against a truck on the Dutra Highway. His driver is also killed. October 31 Indonesia – A tourist bus head-on collides with a mini bus at outskirt of Bogor
Bogor
Bogor is a city on the island of Java in the West Java province of Indonesia. The city is located in the center of the Bogor Regency , 60 kilometers south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta...
, West Java
West Java
West Java , with a population of over 43 million, is the most populous and most densely populated province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, it is slightly smaller in area than densely populated Taiwan, but with nearly double the population...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, in an incident caused when the tourist bus has brake failure, killing 34 people and injuring 25. November 14 Brazil – A bus carrying municipal election candidate and supporters has plunged into river near ferry terminal at Manaus
Manaus
Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of the state of Amazonas. It is situated at the confluence of the Negro and Solimões rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, and is a popular ecotourist destination....
-Itacoatiara expressway, Uruara
Uruará
Uruará is a town and municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil.-References:...
, Pará
Pará
Pará is a state in the north of Brazil. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it also borders Guyana and Suriname, and to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Belém.Pará is the most populous state...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 38 people. November 15 – A bus swept by flash flood in Tsoaing River, Thaba Pechela, Mafeteng
Mafeteng
Mafeteng is a city in Lesotho, and the Camptown of the district of Mafeteng. It is located about 76 kilometres south of the country's capital, Maseru and has a population of approximately 61,000...
, Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...
, killing at least 90 people. November 21 France – A mentally school bus returning from Edward Seguin Children Medical Center's meeting, plunged into the River Rhone
Rhône
Rhone can refer to:* Rhone, one of the major rivers of Europe, running through Switzerland and France* Rhône Glacier, the source of the Rhone River and one of the primary contributors to Lake Geneva in the far eastern end of the canton of Valais in Switzerland...
, outskirt of Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, France, at least 14 people killed.
1977
April 3 Egypt – A crowded bus skidded off the road, and plunged into irrigation Kassed Canal where it is parallel to the road at the outskirt of TantaTanta
Tanta is a city in Egypt. It is the country's fifth largest populated area, with an estimated 429,000 inhabitants . Tanta is located north of Cairo and southeast of Alexandria...
, Nile Delta
Nile Delta
The Nile Delta is the delta formed in Northern Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers some 240 km of Mediterranean coastline—and is a rich...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 19 people. June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight people and injuring 18. July 7 Pakistan. A bus carrying 44 cadets of Pakistan Military Academy, on an excursion, skidded off the road plunging into a 1000 ft deep ravine, near Nathiagali, killing 16 cadets including a Saudi cadet. 28 Cadets were injured seriously along with their Platoon Commander Major Shujjat (a war Hero); they were rescued by cadets of the Pakistan Airforce and civilians including the famous actress Neelo. August 11 Japan – According to the Japanese National Police Agency and NHK
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
television, a charter bus plunged 120 feet into a ravine at Nagatoro bridge, Kofu
Kofu, Yamanashi
is the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan.As of May 1, 2011, the city had a estimate population of 197,540, with 85,794 households. The total area is 212.41 km².-History:Kōfu's name means "capital of Kai Province"...
, Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Kōfu.-Pre-history to the 14th century:People have been living in the Yamanashi area for about 30,000 years...
, Japan, killing 11 people; another 39 are injured.
1978
January 1 Thailand – A truck carrying many passengers collided head-on with a bus on the outskirts of Nong Bua Daeng, ChaiyaphumChaiyaphum
Chaiyaphum ) is a town in Northeastern Thailand, capital of Chaiyaphum province. As of 2006 it has a population of 37,490, and covers the full tambon Nai Mueang of Mueang Chaiyaphum district.-External links:...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, killing 25 people; another 86 are injured. January 3 Colombia – A Villavicencio
Villavicencio
Villavicencio is a city and municipality in Colombia, capital of the Department of Meta, with 361,058 inhabitants. The city is located at 4°08S, 73°40W, 75 km southeast of the Colombian capital city of Bogotá by the Guatiquía river...
-Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
regular route bus plunged 130 feet off a cliff on the outskirts of Quetame
Quetame
Quetame is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. On May 24, 2008, there was a magnitude 5.5 earthquake centered in Quetame that caused at least 8 deaths and destroyed 40% of the buildings in that village. The tremor was also felt in Bogotá and...
, Oriente, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, killing 30 people; another 16 are injured. January 22 Poland – A truck with steel elements collided with crowded bus of PKS (Polish Road Transport) - killed 15 people and seriously injured 14. March 9 Brazil – A Brasília
Brasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
-São Paulo regular route bus collided with a gasoline tank truck on the Faria Lima expressway near Barretos
Barretos
Barretos is a municipality in the northern part of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city has approximately 112,101 inhabitants and an area of 1565.6 km². Barretos belongs to the Mesoregion of Ribeirão Preto.-History:...
in the state of São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. The bus driver swerved and lost control, and the vehicle burst into flames, killing 19. Another five are injured. July 11 Spain – Los Alfaques Disaster
Los Alfaques Disaster
The Los Alfaques Disaster was a road accident and tanker explosion which occurred on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, near Tarragona, in Spain. A tanker truck loaded with 23 tons of highly flammable liquified propylene experienced a fire and subsequent BLEVE while on the N-340 highway directly in front of...
: in Sant Carles de la Ràpita
Sant Carles de la Ràpita
Sant Carles de la Ràpita is a town in the area of the Montsià in Catalonia, Spain. The town covers a portion of the south-west of the Ebre delta, including el Trabucador isthmus and la Banya peninsula, which close off a salt water lagoon known as the Port dels Alfacs. The town of Sant Carles de la...
, a tank truck
Tank truck
A tank truck or road tanker is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars which are also designed to carry liquefied loads...
containing 45 m³ of liquefied propylene leaves the road and veers into the Los Alfaques camping site after colliding with a building. The resulting fire ball
BLEVE
A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion occurs when a vessel containing a pressurized liquid above its boiling point ruptures.-Mechanism:...
is more than 100 meters in diameter and kills at least 215 people (some sources speak of 216 or even 270), and injures 200 people. 4 August Canada – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman, Quebec
Eastman, Quebec
Eastman is a municipality of 1600 people, part of the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec.-References:...
, Canada killing 40 people. Only seven people survive. November 15 Poland – Two buses of PKS (Polish Road Transport) with miners going to work plunged into the river Jezioro Żywieckie near Żywiec, killing 27 miners, one woman and two drivers.
1980
February 12 Bulgaria – An OhridOhrid
Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has...
-İzmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
regular route bus carrying 50 passengers aboard failed to navigate a curve and plunged into the Marica River near Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, killing 25 people. February 18 Costa Rica – A 40-passenger bus and an 18 passenger bus collided head-on at San Isidro, Heredia Province
Heredia Province
Heredia is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country. As a result, the province covers areas as diverse as the agriculture rich Northern plains of San Carlos as well as the more metropolitan areas like the city of Heredia located in the Central Valley...
, Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
, killing 16 people, with 39 injured. 3 March – 23 people are burned to death when city bus 62 catches fire in Minsk
Minsk
- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
after driving into a pool of gasoline spilled from a fuel truck. 5 March India – A bus slammed into a banyan tree, after attempting to overtake a truck on the outskirts of Krishnanagar, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India. 32 people are killed and 42 injured. 9 May USA – 35 people are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....
, after a cargo ship
Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...
collided with a bridge pier
Pier
A pier is a raised structure, including bridge and building supports and walkways, over water, typically supported by widely spread piles or pillars...
, knocking down over 1200 ft. of the bridge. June 5 USA – A tour bus rolls off the highway near Jasper, Arkansas
Jasper, Arkansas
Jasper is a city in Newton County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 498 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Newton County.Jasper is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
, killing 22 people and injuring 19. June 10 Ireland; A bus crashes and overturns outside Limerick, Republic of Ireland killing two People and injuring dozens more. June 25 India – A bus carrying 100 passengers lost control and plunged into the Rahand Nullah River, Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
, India, killing 58 people. June 29 Pakistan – According to the Associated Press of Pakistan
Associated Press of Pakistan
Associated Press of Pakistan is a government-operated national news agency of Pakistan. It is not associated with the Associated Press agency .-Lack of financial resources:...
, a bus carrying more than 100 women and children plunges into a canal in Upper Jhelam, near Mirpur, Kashmir of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, and at least 90 people drown as a result. June 29 Romania – a bus carrying 83 people went off a bridge and overturned into a deep marsh near Huţani, a village in Vlădeni
Vladeni, Botosani
Vlădeni is a commune in Botoşani County, Romania. It is composed of five villages: Brehuieşti, Hrişcani, Huţani, Mândreşti and Vlădeni....
commune
Commune
Commune may refer to:In society:* Commune, a human community in which resources are shared* Commune , a township or municipality* One of the Communes of France* An Italian Comune...
, Botoşani County
Botosani County
Botoșani is a county of Romania, in Moldavia, with the capital city at Botoșani.-Demographics:In 2002, it had a population of 452,834 and the population density was 91/km2.*Romanians – – the highest percentage of Romanians in Romania...
, killing 48 people and injuring 35. July 4 Philippines – Two passenger buses collided head-on on National Highway Route 1, Camalig
Camalig, Albay
Camalig is a first class municipality in the province of Albay, Philippines. At the time of the 2007 census, it had a population of 60,319 people in 11,275 households....
, Albay
Albay
Albay is a province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon. Its capital is Legazpi City and the province borders Camarines Sur to the north and Sorsogon to the south. Also to the northeast is Lagonoy Gulf....
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, killing 13 people and injuring 28. November 11 Egypt – A bus collided with two trucks, then plunged into an irrigation canal near Beni Suef
Beni Suef
- Overview :Beni Suef is an important agricultural center, which grew from a small village at the turn of the century and now hosts a population of over 200,000. It was famous for its linen manufacturing in the Middle Ages, and continues to be heavily involved in cotton-spinning and carpet-making....
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 30 people and injuring at least 30. November 25 India – A Gwalior-Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
Delhi Transport bus tumbled into the Chambal River
Chambal River
The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India, and forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system. The river flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh, running for a time through Rajasthan, then forming the boundary between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh before turning...
, Dholpur
Dholpur
Dholpur is a city in eastern-most parts of the Rajasthan state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Dholpur District and was formerly seat of the Dholpur princely state, before Independence....
, Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India, killing 40 people and injuring 30.
1981
January 3 India – A passenger bus skidded and plunged 200-feet down into a ravine at outskirt of Galhar, Indian Kashmir, killing 17 people and injuring 18. February 12 Venezuela – A crowded bus, heavy truck, a small vehicle and many vehicles collide at BarquisimetoBarquisimeto
Barquisimeto is the capital city of the State of Lara located in west central Venezuela, halfway between Caracas and Maracaibo on the Turbio River.-Overview:...
, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, killing 36 people and injuring 31. April 9 Nicaragua –; An Nicaraguan Army's jeep and head-on collided with a regular route bus at outskirt of Estelí
Estelí
Estelí, officially Villa de San Antonio de Pavia de Estelí is a city and municipality within the Estelí department. It is the third largest city in Nicaragua, an active commercial center in the north and is known as "the Diamond of the Segovias."...
, Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
, killing twenty people and injuring forty. April 14 India – A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims swerved to the left of the road, and navigating a turn with brakes failed, caught fire at Srisailam
Srisailam
Srisailam is a holy town and mandal, situated in Nallamala Hills of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located on the banks of River Krishna, about 232 km south of Hyderabad....
, Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
, India, killing 61 people. July 7 India – A bus skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge at outskirt of Kawanpui, Mizoram
Mizoram
Mizoram is one of the Seven Sister States in North Eastern India, sharing borders with the states of Tripura, Assam, Manipur and with the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Burma. Mizoram became the 23rd state of India on 20 February 1987. Its capital is Aizawl. Mizoram is located in the...
, India, killing 32 people and injuring 19. June 14 Pakistan – A bus plunged 300-feet into a ravine at Kohat Pass
Kohat Pass
Kohat Pass is a mountain pass in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, connecting Kohat with Peshawar, crossing the Khigana Mountains.As the road to the pass is steep and too narrow for large vehicles, the Kohat Tunnel was constructed and opened in June, 2003. -External links:*...
, Kohat
Kohat
Kohat is a medium sized town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 33°35'13N 71°26'29E with an altitude of 489 metres and is the capital of Kohat District. The town centres around a British-era fort, various bazaars, and a military cantonment. A British-built narrow gauge...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, killing 23 people and injuring 25. August 12 India – An Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation regular route bus plunged into a 450-feet deep ravine along a mountain road in Pithorgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, killing 43 people. September 9 Brazil – A truck rammed a bus on an acute curve and forced it over a 330-foot cliff near Santos, state of São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 29 people and injuring 14. September 29 Spain – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Toledo
Toledo (province)
Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Cáceres, and Ávila....
province, Spain, kills at least 25 people. October 14 India – A public bus plunged into foothills at outskirt of Simla
Shimla
Shimla , formerly known as Simla, is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India. A popular tourist destination, Shimla is often referred to as the "Queen of Hills," a term coined by the British...
, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, India, killing 40 people and injuring 45.
1982
January 21 Bangladesh – An overcrowded bus swerves to avoid a speeding truck and plunges nine meters off a bridge at NarayanganjNarayanganj
Narayanganj is a city in central Bangladesh. It is located in the Narayanganj District, near the capital city of Dhaka and has a population of 220,000. The city is on the bank of the Shitalakshya River. The river port of Narayanganj is one of the oldest in Bangladesh...
, Isa Khan
Isa Khan
Isa Khan is the most famous of the Baro Bhuiyans of medieval Bengal. He was the ruler of a region named Bhati. Throughout his reign he put resistance against Mughal invasion. It was only after his death, when the region went totally under Mughals.-Early life:It is estimated that he was born in 1529...
, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
, killing at least 28 people; another 40 are injured. 31 January Chile – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
, killing 14 people and injuring 70. March 27 Mexico – A Toluca
Toluca
Toluca, formally known as Toluca de Lerdo, is the state capital of Mexico State as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. It is the center of a rapidly growing urban area, now the fifth largest in Mexico. It is located west-southwest of Mexico City and only about 40 minutes by car to the...
-Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
Passenger bus head-on collided with a trailer truck at outskirt of Mexico City, in an incident caused by condition of rain with narrow road, at least twenty-eight people dead and injuring 32. 1 August France – Two buses carrying children collide with cars and burst into flames in Beaune
Beaune
Beaune is the wine capital of Burgundy in the Cote d'Or department in eastern France. It is located between Paris and Geneva.Beaune is one of the key wine centers in France and the annual wine auction of the Hospices de Beaune is the primary wine auction in France...
, France, killing 53 people, including 44 children. Worst highway crash in France. September 9 – An express train collided with a bus at outskirt of Szekesfehervar
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár is a city in central Hungary and is the 9th largest in the country. Located around southwest of Budapest. It is inhabited by 101,973 people , with 136,995 in the Székesfehérvár Subregion. The city is the centre of Fejér county and the regional centre of Central Transdanubia...
, Fejér County, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, killing at least sixteen passengers. 12 September – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, killing 39 people. The barriers were not closed, because the operator pressed a wrong button. Only two passengers survive the crash. 13 September Monaco – Grace, Princess 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...
drove her Rover P6 off of a serpentine roadway and down a mountainside, perhaps after suffering a stroke. She died the next day. 3 November – Hundreds are allegedly killed in the Salang tunnel fire
Salang tunnel fire
The Salang tunnel fire occurred on 3 November 1982 in Afghanistan's Salang tunnel during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Details are uncertain, but the incident may have been the deadliest known road accident, and one of the deadliest fires of modern times.- Overview :The Salang tunnel,...
in central Afghanistan, after a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as great as 2,000 dead. November 25 India – An overloaded truck spun out of control and flipped over near Kaitanol, Karnataka, India, killing at least 18 people and injuring 14. December 26 – A passenger bus plunged into a river at Brahmanbari, Bangladesh, at least forty-five people dead and eighty injured.
1983
January 19 USA – A semi-trailer truckSemi-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...
crashed into a mainline toll booth on the Connecticut Turnpike
Connecticut Turnpike
The Connecticut Turnpike, known now as the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike, is a freeway in Connecticut that runs from Greenwich to Killingly. It is signed as Interstate 95 from the New York state line at Greenwich to East Lyme, and then as Interstate 395 from East Lyme to Plainfield...
in Stratford, Connecticut
Stratford, Connecticut
Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. It was founded by Puritans in 1639....
, after brake failure, killing six people and injuring four.
February 11 – A Salonica-Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
express bus head-on collided with a truck at outskirt of Amfikleia
Amfikleia
Amfikleia is a town and a former municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amfikleia-Elateia, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 5,636 ....
, Phthiotis
Phthiotis
Phthiotis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is bordered by the Malian Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Evrytania in the west,...
, Greece, in an incident caused by both vehicles exceeding the speed limit, killing seventeen people and injuring ten. February 13 – A passenger bus head on collided with a truck, when driver trying to pass a car at outskirt of Şanlıurfa
Sanliurfa
Şanlıurfa, , often simply known as Urfa in daily language , in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323 inhabitants Şanlıurfa, , often simply known as Urfa in daily language (Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ Urhoy,Armenian Ուռհա Owr'ha, Arabic الرها ar-Ruhā), in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323...
, 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...
, killing twenty people and injuring ten. March 2 – A charter bus plunged off mountainous highway into Mantaro River
Mantaro River
The Mantaro River is a long river running through the central region of Peru. Its Quechua name means "great river".-Geography:The river has its source at Lake Junín at a height of 4.080 m and runs through Junín, Yauli, Jauja, Concepción and Huancayo provinces in Junín Region, then through...
, Jauja
Jauja
Jauja is a city and capital of Jauja Province in Peru. It is situated in the fertile Mantaro Valley, to the northwest of Huancayo , at an altitude of . Its population according to the 2007 census was 16,424....
, Junín Region
Junín Region
Junín is a region in the central highlands and westernmost Amazonia of Peru. Its capital is Huancayo.-Geography:The region has a very heterogeneous topography. The western cordillera located near the border with the Lima Region, has snowy and ice covered peaks. On the east, there are high glacier...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing thirty people. November 1 – A bus collides with a motorcycle
Motorcycle
A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
and hits a second bus 370 miles northeast of Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, killing 21 people and injuring 40. December 4 – A regular route bus crashed into a utility pole and caught fire on the outskirts of Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, in an incident caused by technical problems and excessive speed, killing 21 people. Another five people are injured.
1984
January 30 India – A Paonta SahibPaonta Sahib
Paonta Sahib पौंटा साहिब is a small beautiful town in the south of Sirmour district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is an important religious spot for Sikhs and a bustling industrial town...
-Nangai regular route bus plunged 14 feet into a canal and sank at the Sarsa Bridge on the outskirts of Rapar
Rapar
Rapar is a city and a municipality in Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat.-Geography:Rapar is located at . It has an average elevation of 79 metres ....
, Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
of India, killing 80 people. August 1 India – A bus carrying local government employees plunged into a canal after its right front tire burst. The crash, on the outskirts of Ingraj Bazar, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, killed 40 people. August 1 – A bus skidded on a wet road, lost control and plunged into the Indus River
Indus River
The Indus River is a major river which flows through Pakistan. It also has courses through China and India.Originating in the Tibetan plateau of western China in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in Tibet Autonomous Region, the river runs a course through the Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir and...
on the Karakoram Highway, Baiji Sharif, northern Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, killing 27 people. August 26 – A bus slipped and plunged into a 13-feet deep irrigation canal near Salkot
Salkot
Salkot is a village development committee in Surkhet District in the Bheri Zone of mid-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5027 people living in 868 individual households.-External links:*...
, Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, killing 25 people. September 5 – A bus carrying 50 passengers plunged into a 3300 feet (1,005.8 m) gorge near Shillong
Shillong
-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...
, Meghalaya
Meghalaya
Meghalaya is a state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means the Abode of Clouds in Sanskrit and other Indic languages. Meghalaya is a hilly strip in the eastern part of the country about 300 km long and 100 km wide, with a total area of about 8,700 sq mi . The...
, India, in an incident caused by the driver losing control on an acute curve with dense fog. 29 people are killed, and another 25 are injured. September 24 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, killing 42 people and injuring 15. November 25 – A bus returning from the shore of the Black Sea collided with a lorry in dense fog at northern Cankiri
Çankiri
-Agriculture:Various produce like wheat, corn, beans, apple etc. are grown in the farms, and fields that are rich of water.-Industry:Most of the industry is located near the city center and Korgun. Other towns that are in the industrial map of the city are Şabanözü, Çerkeş, Ilgaz, Kurşunlu, and...
, 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...
, at least thirty people dead and injuring twenty-four. December 23 – An overcrowded passenger bus plunged off a expressway at Apaseo Grande, Guanjuato, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, at least twenty-two people dead and injuring thirty-five. December 24 – An overcrowded bus with ninety passengers skidded off a steep bank on Wapadsberg Mountain, Craddock-Graaff Region, Eastern Cape
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, at least 42 people dead and injuring 25.
1985
January 11 – A regular route bus skidded off a covered bridge in icy conditions and plunged into a frozen river at YeongdongYeongdong County
Yeongdong County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The county should not be confused with the similarly named Yeongdong region.During the Korean War, this county was the site of the No Gun Ri incident.-Climate:-External links:*...
, Chungcheongbuk-do
Chungcheongbuk-do
Chungcheongbuk-do is a province in the centre of South Korea. It was formed in 1896 from the northeastern half of the former Chungcheong province...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, killing 38 people. January 28 – A bus carrying skiers plunges into a reservoir in Nagano
Nagano, Nagano
, the capital city of Nagano Prefecture, is located in the northern part of the prefecture near the confluence of the Chikuma and the Sai rivers, on the main Japanese island of Honshū.As of April 1, 2011 the city has a population of 387,146...
, Japan killing 25 people. March 27 – A school bus crashed through a barier and plunged into a dam killing 42 school children Westdene
Westdene
Westdene is an area of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex. It is a northern suburb of the city, west of Patcham, the A23 and the London to Brighton railway line, north of Withdean and northeast of West Blatchington. It is on the Brighton side of the historic parish boundary between...
, Gauteng
Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. It is known as the Westdene dam disaster
Westdene dam disaster
The Westdene Dam Disaster was a bus accident that took place in Westdene, near Johannesburg, South Africa, on 27 March 1985.- The accident :The driver of a double decker bus lost control and the bus crashed through barriers into the Westdene dam, about three miles from the centre of Johannesburg...
April 6 – A regular route bus suffered brake failure and plunged 20 feet at Bherughat, Madhy Pradesh, India, killing 16 people and injuring 39. April 20 – A bus plunged 500 feet down the side of road at outskirt of Hibberdene
Hibberdene, KwaZulu-Natal
Hibberdene is a small coastal town on KwaZulu-Natal south coast in South Africa. It was named after C. Maxwell-Hibberd, the former postmaster-general of Natal....
, Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, killing 18, another injuring are 29. June 11 – A bus carrying school children on a field trip collides with a train near Moshav
Moshav
Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...
Habonim
HaBonim, Israel
HaBonim is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located 5 km south of Atlit and 3 km north of Kibbutz Nahsholim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 259....
, Israel; 21 people killed, including 19 children. July 21 – A bus carrying 42 passengers returning from a Buddhist ordination ceremony collided head-on with a truck at an intersection in a suburb of Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, killing 26 people and injuring 16. July 21 – A bus overturned after brake failure and ran through a crowded market at Halsema expressway, Atok
Atok, Benguet
Atok is a 4th class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 19,253 people in 3,397 households.-Geography:Atok has a land area of 22,385 hectares or 223.85 square kilometer...
, Benguet
Benguet
Benguet is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is La Trinidad and borders, clockwise from the south, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya....
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, killing 28 people and injuring 70. 22 September – A school bus rolls over in Layyah
Layyah
Layyah, also spelt Leiah , is the capital city of the Layyah District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°58'0N 70°56'0E with an altitude of 143 metres .-Old History:...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, killing 30 children. 21 October UK – A coach
Coach (vehicle)
A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...
collides with stationary traffic due to construction work on the M6 motorway
M6 motorway
The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, Preston, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction . Here, just short of the Scottish border it becomes the A74 which continues to...
, in Lancashire between Preston
City of Preston, Lancashire
The City of Preston is a city and non-metropolitan district in Lancashire, England. It is located on the north bank of the River Ribble, and was granted city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign...
and Lancaster
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,952. Lancaster is a constituent settlement of the wider City of Lancaster, local government district which has a population of 133,914 and encompasses several outlying towns, including...
, killing 13 people. December 21 – A São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
-Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
Cometa Transport bus veered off the road and into Guandu River, outskirt of Piraí
Piraí
Piraí is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 24,021 and its area is 505 km²....
, Rio state, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 22 people.
1986
January 17 India – A crowded passenger bus plunged into 89-feet deep ravine, with navigate a sharp curve at NavsariNavsari
Navsari is a city and municipality in the Surat Metropolitan Region and also the administrative headquarters Navsari District of Gujarat, India. Navsari is also the Twin City of Surat, and only 37 km south of Surat.-Geography:...
, Gujarat, India, killing 49 people and injuring ten. April 26 India – A bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine where plunged off a cliff at outskirt of Kathgodam
Kathgodam
Kathgodam is a town in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state of India. It is part of the twin township of Haldwani-Kathgodam , and is immediately north of Haldwani.-History:...
, Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand , formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the Land of Gods due to the many holy Hindu temples and cities found throughout the state, some of which are among Hinduism's most spiritual and auspicious places of pilgrimage and worship...
, India, killing 44 people. May 12 South Africa – An overcrowded bus lost control due to brake failure and flipped over near Mount Frere, Eastern Cape, Transkei
Transkei
The Transkei , officially the Republic of Transkei , was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and nominal parliamentary democracy in the southeastern region of South Africa...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, killing 30 people. Another 64 people are injured. 23 May Philippines – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province
Antique province
Antique is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is San Jose and is located at the western portion of Panay Island, bordering Aklan, Capiz, and Iloilo to the east. Antique faces the Sulu Sea to the west....
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, killing 23 people and injuring 15. 30 May USA – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River
West Walker River
The West Walker River is a tributary of the Walker River, approximately long, in eastern California and western Nevada in the United States. It drains part of the Sierra Nevada range along the California-Nevada border in the watershed of Walker Lake in the Great Basin.It rises from snowmelt in the...
near Walker, Mono County, California
Walker, Mono County, California
Walker is a census-designated place in Mono County, California. It is located south of Coleville, at an elevation of 5403 feet . The ZIP Code is 96107, and mail to Walker should be addressed Coleville...
, killing 21 people and injuring 19. June 17 Peru – A bus carrying 40 passengers, including school children, plunged off a highway and into an irrigation ditch near Canete
San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete, commonly known simply as Cañete, is a town in Peru, which is the capital of the Cañete Province, in the Lima Region...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing 19 people and injuring 17. June 22 China – Two buses carrying Baobaoshan rural factory workers plunged 800-feet before an acute curve in the Mount Wutai area, Shanxi
Shanxi
' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
, China, killing 31 people and injuring 35. July 26 UK – Lockington rail crash
Lockington rail crash
The Lockington rail crash occurred on 26 July 1986 at Lockington, Humberside , England, when the 09:33 passenger train from Bridlington to Hull on the Yorkshire Coast Line hit a Ford Escort van on a level crossing...
: A train derails after colliding with a Ford Escort at a rail crossing in Lockington
Lockington, East Riding of Yorkshire
Lockington is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north west of Beverley town centre.The civil parish is formed by the villages of Lockington and Aike and the hamlet of Thorpe....
, Yorkshire, England, killing 8 people aboard the train and one aboard the car. October 8 Taiwan – A tourist bus plunges 33-yards down a valley onto a river bank at East-West Cross Island Expressway, outskirt of Taichung
Taichung
-Demographics:Taichung’s population was an estimated 1,040,725 in August 2006. There are slightly more females in the city than males.24.32% of residents are children, while 16.63% are young people, 52.68% are middle-age, and 6.73% are elderly....
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, killing 39 people. October 21 – Two packed buses hit by a passenger express train at Landhi
Landhi
Landhi is one of the neighbourhoods of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. There are several ethnic groups in Landhi including Muhajirs, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis, etc. Over 99% of the population is Muslims...
, Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, both bus driver tried to reach waiting passenger train and often are involved accidents, killing 35 people and injuring 24. November 3 – A bus crashed into road side at outskirt of Murshidabad
Murshidabad
Murshidabad is a city in Murshidabad district of West Bengal state in India. The city of Murshidabad is located on the southern bank of the Bhagirathi, a distributary of the Ganges River. It was the capital of undivided Bengal during the Mughal rule. Nawabs of Bengal used to rule Bengal from this...
, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, killing 33 people and injuring 28.
1987
January 4 Brazil – A bus carrying workers head-on collided with a truck carrying tomatoes at ItapetiningaItapetininga
Itapetininga is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The name comes from the Tupi languageIt is situated in the southwestern region of the state, and is known as cidade das escolas, meaning city of schools in Portuguese....
, state of São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing fifteen people and injuring eleven. January 21 Chile – A truck and a bus collide near Temuco
Temuco
Temuco is a city and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The name comes from the Mapudungun language, meaning "temu water"; "temu" is a tree used by Mapuches for medicinal purposes. The city is located 670 km south of Santiago...
, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, killing 43 people. February 23 Nigeria – A bus carrying a wedding party skidded off an express way at outskirt of Nsukka
Nsukka
Nsukka is a town and Local Government Area in South-East Nigeria in Enugu State. Other towns that share common border with Nsukka, such as Enugu Ezike, Orba and Obollo-Afor , Ede-Oballa, Uzo Uwani and Mkpologwu, now also claim the name Nsukka, hence they all collectively fall into the political...
, Anambra State
Anambra State
Anambra is a state in south-eastern Nigeria. Its name is an anglicized version of the original 'Oma Mbala', the native name of the Anambra River. The Capital and the Seat of Government is Awka. Onitsha and Nnewi are the biggest commercial and industrial cities, respectively. The state's theme is...
, Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
, killing 35 people. 29 March China – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi
Shaanxi
' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...
, China, killing 19 people and injuring 28. May 6 Thailand – A bus carrying university students and teachers rammed into the side of a mountain near Kanchanaburi
Kanchanaburi
Kanchanaburi ) is a town in the west of Thailand and the capital of Kanchanaburi province. In 2006 it had a population of 31,327...
, Sri Sawat, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 27. July 7 Germany – A tank truck carrying gasoline crash and hit ice-cream parlor at Herborn
Herborn
Herborn is a historic town on the Dill in the Lahn-Dill district of Hesse in Germany. Before World War I, it was granted its own title as Nassauisches Rothenburg. The symbol or mascot of this town is a bear. Scenic attractions include its half-timbered houses; Herborn is located on the German...
, Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Lahn-Dill-Kreis
Lahn-Dill is a Kreis in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Siegen-Wittgenstein, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen, Wetteraukreis, Hochtaunuskreis, Limburg-Weilburg, Westerwaldkreis.-History:...
, Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
, Germany, killing thirty people and injuring 29. July 26 Brazil – A drunk bus driver crashes his bus against another bus, in highway BR-040
BR-040
BR-040 is a federal highway of Brazil. The 1178.7 kilometre road connects Brasilia to Rio de Janeiro....
, near Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, killing 69 people, the worst road accident to date in Brazil. July 30 India – A regular route bus into Yanto canal at outskirt of Dakpatthar, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, killing 39 people. October 20 – A bus veered into a high-voltage power pole and caught fire after colliding with another bus at Al-Kufaytah, Nahr-an-nil, Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
, killing 64 people. 28 October UK – A diesel tank truck
Tank truck
A tank truck or road tanker is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars which are also designed to carry liquefied loads...
collides with stationary traffic on the M61 motorway
M61 motorway
The M61 motorway is a motorway in North West England. It runs from the M60 motorway northwest of Manchester and heads northwest past Bolton and Chorley to join the M6 just north of the junction between the M6 and M65 motorways to the south of Preston....
near Preston
City of Preston, Lancashire
The City of Preston is a city and non-metropolitan district in Lancashire, England. It is located on the north bank of the River Ribble, and was granted city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign...
, Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
, killing 12 people and injuring 6. December 11 Egypt – A bus carrying local primary school children returning from the Guiza zoo was smashed by a fast-speed train at an unmarked railroad level crossing at Ein Sham, on the outskirts Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 62 children and injuring 67. December 27 Algeria – A passenger bus and two trucks carrying illegal passengers collided near Bouandas, Sétif
Sétif
Sétif |Colonia]]) is a town in northeastern Algeria. It is the capital of Sétif Province and it has a population of 239,195 inhabitants as of the 1998 census. Setif is located to the east of Algiers and is the second most important Wilaya after the country's capital. It is 1,096 meters above sea...
, Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
, killing 32 people and injuring 19.
1988
February 1 Haiti – A truck carrying many hitchhikers was hit by ten-wheel flatbed truck carrying coffee. The truck overturned and plunged into the Grande-Anse RiverGrande-Anse River
The Grande-Anse River flows through western Haiti and empties into the Gulf of Gonâve at the city of Jérémie. It is one of the largest rivers in Haiti....
, near Jérémie
Jérémie
Jérémie is the capital city of the department of Grand'Anse, in Haiti, with a population of about 31,000 . It is almost isolated from the rest of the country...
, Grand'Anse Department
Grand'Anse Department
Grand'Anse is one of the ten administrative departments of Haiti. Its capital is Jérémie.-History:...
, Haiti
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
, killing 70 people. February 15 – A bus plunged into a 170-foot ravine near Pallasca Province
Pallasca Province
The Pallasca Province is one of 20 provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru.-Political division:Pallasca is divided into eleven districts, which are:...
, Ancash Region
Ancash Region
Ancash is a region in northern Peru. It is bordered by the La Libertad region on the north, the Huánuco and Pasco regions on the east, the Lima region on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is the city of Huaraz, and its largest city and port is Chimbote...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing 14 people. April 10 – An overcrowded regular route bus blew a front tire and plunged into an irrigation canal near Mueang Chainat
Amphoe Mueang Chainat
Mueang Chainat is the capital district of Chainat Province, central Thailand.-Geography:Neighboring districts are Sapphaya, Sankhaburi, Hankha, Wat Sing, Manorom of Chainat Province and Takhli of Nakhon Sawan Province.-History:In 1917 the district was renamed from Mueang to Ban Kluai...
, Chainat Province
Chainat Province
Chainat is one of the central provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Nakhon Sawan, Sing Buri, Suphan Buri and Uthai Thani.-Geography:...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, killing 42 people and injuring 11. April 20 Thailand – A local bus collided with a paramilitary troop tank at Nakhon Ratchasima
Nakhon Ratchasima
Nakhon Ratchasima or is a city in the north-east of Thailand and gateway to Isan. It is the capital of the Nakhon Ratchasima Province and Nakhon Ratchasima district...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
. The resulting explosion killed 25 people and injured nine. 14 May USA – 27 people die in the Carrollton bus disaster near Carrollton, Kentucky
Carrollton, Kentucky
Carrollton is a town in Carroll County, Kentucky, at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Kentucky River. Its population was 3,846 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Carroll County....
, after a collision with a drunk driver driving the wrong way on Interstate 71
Interstate 71
Interstate 71 is an Interstate Highway in the Great Lakes/Midwestern and Southeastern region of the United States. Its southern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 64 and Interstate 65 in Louisville, Kentucky. Its northern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 90 in Cleveland,...
. July 18 Brazil – A Londrina
Londrina
Londrina is a city located in the northern region of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and is 369 km away from the capital, Curitiba. Londrina was originally founded by British settlers. The city exerts great influence on Paraná and Brazil's south region...
-Campinas
Campinas
Campinas is a city and municipality located in the coastal interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. is the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census, consisting of 49 cities....
regular route bus swerved to avoid three cows crossing national road 369, then struck the rear of another bus near Cornelio Procopio
Cornélio Procópio
Cornélio Procópio is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
, Parana
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 39 people. 12 August Iran – Two buses collide on the highway between Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
and Tabriz
Tabriz
Tabriz is the fourth largest city and one of the historical capitals of Iran and the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. Situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters at the junction of the Quri River and Aji River, it was the second largest city in Iran until the late 1960s, one of its former...
in northern Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, killing 30 people and injuring 50. 15 August Norway – 16 people, including 12 children, die in the Måbødalen bus accident when a bus rams into a concrete wall in a tunnel 60 miles east of Bergen, Norway
Bergen
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....
. August 23 Austria – A Hungarian tour bus lost control and slammed into a truck at Schwadorf
Schwadorf
Schwadorf is an Austrian market town in the Wien-Umgebung district. It sits on the banks of the River Fischa, fifteen miles south-east of Vienna. As of July 2006, it has a population of 1,692.The town is located in a seismic area above a fault line...
near 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...
, Austria, killing 14 people and injuring 11. 22 September India – A bus falls into a ravine near Simla
Shimla
Shimla , formerly known as Simla, is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India. A popular tourist destination, Shimla is often referred to as the "Queen of Hills," a term coined by the British...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. 35 people die. September 25 India – A bus plunged into Bhakra canal, smashing through the safety railing of a bridge near Jogwala, Sangrur district
Sangrur district
Sangrur district is in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. Earlier Barnala was part of Sangrur district, but now Barnala is a separate district.-Sangrur consists of following cities:DHURIMALERKOTLA...
, Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
, India, killing 67 people. October 6 – A Kafr el Sheikh-Baltim
Baltim
Baltim or Balteem is a resort in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, in the north of Egypt....
regular-route bus was hit by a flatbed trailer on the outskirts of El-Mahalla El-Kubra
El-Mahalla El-Kubra
El-Mahalla El-Kubra is a large industrial and agricultural city in Egypt, located in the middle of the Nile Delta on the western bank of the Damietta branch. It is known for its dominant textile industry...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 28 people and injuring 21. October 9 – A Guhawati-Nalburi regular-route bus skidded off a road and crashed into a flooded pond on the outskirts of Guwahati
Guwahati
Guwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...
, Assam
Assam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
, India, killing 50 people. October 12 – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi
Shaanxi
' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...
, China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
, killing 43 people and injuring 40. October 21 – Three separate buses collided with a refrigerator truck and overturned at Martorell
Martorell
Martorell is a town near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, primarily known for its medieval Devil's bridge.It has three railway stations - one on the RENFE line from Manresa to Sant Vicenç de Calders called "Martorell", and three on the FGC line from Barcelona to Manresa called "Martorell-Vila",...
, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
, Spain, killing 14 people and injuring 65.
1989
January 17 Sri Lanka – 51 people die and 110 are injured when a bus packed with school children collides with a train at a level crossing of Ahungalle, southern Sri LankaSri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
. February 24 – A Bahia
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...
-Brasília
Brasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
regular route bus head-on collided with a truck carrying a load of corn at outskirt of Catalão
Catalão
Catalão is a small city and municipality located in the south of the state of Goiás, in Brazil. It is a large producer of grains, cattle, and phosphates and has a John Deere and Mitsubishi factory.-Demographics:*Population density: 17.85 inhab/km²...
, Goiás
Goiás
Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The name Goiás comes from the name of an indigenous community...
, Brazil, killing 16 people and injuring 25. February 26 – A bus plunged 330-feet into a deep valley at outskirt of Taoyuan City
Taoyuan City
Taoyuan City is the county seat of Taoyuan County in Taiwan, located in the northwestern part of the island. Taoyuan city is the gateway of Taiwan: with the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in vicinity, and is a 30-minute ride to the capital, Taipei....
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, killing twelve people and injuring 24. May 19 – A Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
-Huancayo
Huancayo
Huancayo with a rock') is the capital of the Junín Region, in the central highlands of Peru. It is located in Junín Province, of which it is also capital. Situated near the Mantaro Valley at an altitude of 3,271 meters, it has a population of 377,000 and is the fifth most populous city of the...
regular route bus carrying sixty passengers slammed on brakes to avoid a pile of construction blocking bridge, and plunged 90 feet into a Mantaro River
Mantaro River
The Mantaro River is a long river running through the central region of Peru. Its Quechua name means "great river".-Geography:The river has its source at Lake Junín at a height of 4.080 m and runs through Junín, Yauli, Jauja, Concepción and Huancayo provinces in Junín Region, then through...
, outskirt of Jauja
Jauja
Jauja is a city and capital of Jauja Province in Peru. It is situated in the fertile Mantaro Valley, to the northwest of Huancayo , at an altitude of . Its population according to the 2007 census was 16,424....
, Junín Region
Junín Region
Junín is a region in the central highlands and westernmost Amazonia of Peru. Its capital is Huancayo.-Geography:The region has a very heterogeneous topography. The western cordillera located near the border with the Lima Region, has snowy and ice covered peaks. On the east, there are high glacier...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing 45 people. India June 7 – A bus plunged 100-feet into a ravine at outskirt of Baramulla
Baramulla
Baramulla , known as Varahamula in antiquity, is a city in the Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir state in northern India...
, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing fifty people and injuring twenty. June 24 Brazil – Two vehicles of São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
-Rio Grande do Norte regular route buses tumbled down a 100-feet embankment at Outskirt of Estancia
Estância
Estância is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 62,218 and its area is 642 km². The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Estância....
, Sergipe
Sergipe
Sergipe , is the smallest state of the Brazilian Federation, located on the northeastern Atlantic coast of the country. It borders on two other states, Bahia to the south and west and Alagoas to the north, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 31 people and injuring fifty. July 16 Japan – A landslide caused by intense rain collapsed a tunnel, striking a minibus and killing 15 people at Echizen
Echizen, Fukui
is a city in Fukui, Japan.Echizen took its present form on October 1, 2005, when the city of Takefu and the town of Imadate merged to form the new city, although the Echizen Basin has been an important regional center for over 1,500 years. It has many former castle sites and prehistoric...
, Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Fukui.- Prehistory :The Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, on the Sugiyama River within the city limits of Katsuyama, has yielded the Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis as well as an unnamed...
, Japan. October 8 Canada – 13 adults and children are killed and 30 are injured near Shediac, New Brunswick, when a transport truck carrying logs spilled its cargo while passing a loaded hayride. October 20 Australia – The Grafton bus crash
Grafton bus crash
The Grafton bus crash killed 21 people and injured 22 on the Pacific Highway on the North Coast of New South Wales near Grafton. At some time between 3:50 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on Friday, 20 October 1989 a southbound semi-trailer truck carrying a load of tinned fruit juice veered onto the wrong side...
- A Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
-Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
Sunliner Coaches tourist bus collided head-on with a tractor trailer truck near Grafton, New South Wales
Grafton, New South Wales
The city of Grafton is the commercial hub of the Clarence River Valley. Established in 1851, Grafton features many historic buildings and tree-lined streets. Located approximately 630 kilometres north of Sydney and 340 km south of Brisbane, Grafton and the Clarence Valley can be reached...
, Australia, killing 21 people and injuring 22. 22 December Australia – 35 people are killed in the Kempsey bus crash
Kempsey bus crash
The Kempsey bus crash occurred in Australia on December 22, 1989 when two full tourist coaches, each travelling at 100km/h, collided head-on on the Pacific Highway at Clybucca Flat, 12 km north of Kempsey, New South Wales. The collision killed both drivers instantly. The impact snapped seats from...
on the Pacific Highway
Pacific Highway (Australia)
The Pacific Highway is a major transport route along part of the east coast of Australia and is part of Australia's national route 1.It is 960 km long and links Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, to Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, along the coast, via Gosford, Newcastle, Taree, Port...
near Kempsey, New South Wales
Kempsey, New South Wales
Kempsey is a town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia and is the council seat for Kempsey Shire. It is located 15 kilometres inland from the coast of the Pacific Ocean where the Pacific Highway and the North Coast railway line cross the Macleay River...
. December 24 – A regular route bus plunged into a procession at Nag-el-Hobeiki, Luxor
Luxor
Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The population numbers 487,896 , with an area of approximately . As the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open air museum", as the ruins of the temple...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 13 people and injuring 8.
1990
26 January Ireland. Eight People died and five more injured when a tree crashes onto a mini bus during the Burns Day storm. It was the worst incident of a storm that killed 97 people across Western Europe and the British Isles. 28 February Malaysia – 17 people including 11 Federal Reserve UnitFederal Reserve Unit
The Federal Reserve Unit , or better known by the abbreviation as FRU was established as a riot control forces and a special response team as well as a paramilitary that can be deployed regardless of time to engage on any emergency or public unrest that happens in Malaysia.-Role:The main role of...
(FRU) riot police personal were killed in a collision
1990 Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway Crash
The 1990 Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway Crash took place on 28 February 1990. 17 people were killed when the passenger bus collided with a tanker lorry, FRU riot police vehicles and 10 cars at kilometre 31 of the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway not far from Genting Sempah Tunnel in Gombak, Selangor. 11 FRU...
between FRU riot police vehicles, tanker lorry, passenger bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
and 10 cars
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
on the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway, Malaysia. 20 March United States – Whilst on tour, a semi trailer rammed into a tour bus
Sleeper bus
A sleeper bus is a type of specially adapted coach, often used to transport bands and their technicians and road crew between cities and shows....
containing singer Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
, husband Emilio
Emilio Estefan
Emilio Estefan, Jr. is a Cuban-American of Lebanese ancestry who is a musician and producer. Estefan's first taste of celebrity came as a member of the Miami Sound Machine, but he is also recognized as the producer of many famous singers. He is the husband of singer Gloria Estefan...
, their son and three other passengers at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, severely injuring Gloria. Following extensive surgery, she returned to an international tour ten months after the accident. 22 April Cuba – Two buses collide in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
, Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 13. June 3 France – A Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
based double-decker coach
Double-decker bus
A double-decker bus is a bus that has two storeys or 'decks'. Global usage of this type of bus is more common in outer touring than in its intra-urban transportion role. Double-decker buses are also commonly found in certain parts of Europe, Asia, and former British colonies and protectorates...
bus suffered a blowout of the front tyre on the autoroute A6
A6 autoroute (France)
The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Sun's Motorway, , is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon. The motorway starts at Paris's Porte d'Orléans and Porte d'Italie with two branches, numbered A6a and A6b respectively, that join south of Paris...
near Auxerre
Auxerre
Auxerre is a commune in the Bourgogne region in north-central France, between Paris and Dijon. It is the capital of the Yonne department.Auxerre's population today is about 45,000...
when it was 20 mph in excess of the speed limit, causing the 76-seat coach to crash, killing 11 people and injuring 61 British tourists, all returning from Costa Brava
Costa Brava
The Costa Brava is a coastal region of northeastern Catalonia, Spain, in the comarques of Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà and Selva, in the province of Girona. Costa is the Catalan and Spanish word for 'coast', and Brava means 'rugged' or 'wild'...
. This resulted in a legal action against Avon Rubber
Avon Rubber
Avon Rubber p.l.c. is a manufacturer of high technology rubber-based products for a number of manufacturing sectors. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index...
, manufacturer of the tyre of the crash coach, its driver and his employer; resulting in the longest legal case in France 8 July USSR – A bus ignores a barrier at a railroad crossing and collides with a passenger train near Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It stretches along the western shore of the Lake Onega for some . The city is served by Petrozavodsk Airport. Municipally, it is incorporated as Petrozavodsky Urban Okrug . Population:...
, Karelia
Karelia
Karelia , the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden...
, Russia, killing 27 people (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. The bus driver is injured slightly. September 20 – A mini-van skidded on the slippery road rammed inter-city bus exceeded speed and plunged off the road, and another inter-city bus hit into disaster site with rescuers working at outskirt of Semarang
Semarang
- Economy :The western part of the city is home to many industrial parks and factories. The port of Semarang is located on the north coast and it is the main shipping port for the province of Central Java. Many small manufacturers are located in Semarang, producing goods such as textiles,...
, Central Java
Central Java
Central Java is a province of Indonesia. The administrative capital is Semarang. It is one of six provinces on the island of Java.This province is the province of high Human Development in Indonesia and its Points Development Index countries is equivalent to Lebanon. The province of Central Java...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, killing 33 people and injuring 17. September 24 – A truck carrying two unsecured 20,000-liter liquefied petroleum gas tanks overturned on New Phetchaburi Road, downtown Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
. The explosions and resulting fires consumed 43 vehicles and many buildings in the area, killing 59 people and injuring 89. November 4 – A bus carrying former president Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan was a ROK Army general and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for his heavy-handed response to the Gwangju Democratization Movement, but later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung,...
devotees hit by truck and plunged Koonchook bridge, Soyang
Soyang
Soyang is a town and Village Development Committee in Ilam District in the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,197 persons living in 740 individual households.-External links:*...
, Gangwon-do
Gangwon-do (South Korea)
Gangwon-do is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon. Before the division of Korea in 1945, Gangwon and its North Korean neighbour Kangwŏn formed a single province.-History:...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, killing 21 people, another injuring are 21. 9 November Netherlands – Almost at the same spot and with the same cause of the August 25, 1972 accident: in sudden dense fog on highway A16 west of Breda
Breda
Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...
, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 people die and 28 are injured. November 10 USSR – A bus collided passenger train and crushed at outskirt of Sverdlovsk, Yarnal Nenets Oblast, Russia, killing 16 people, another 13 are injured. 22 November USSR – A bus ignores a red light and collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Donetsk
Donetsk
Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, killing 19 people and wounding 13, though the bus driver is not injured. December 11 USA – A 99 car pile-up due to fog on Interstate 75
Interstate 75
Interstate 75 is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the Great Lakes and Southeastern regions of the United States. It travels from State Road 826 and State Road 924 in Hialeah, Florida to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, at the Ontario, Canada, border...
near Calhoun, Tennessee
Calhoun, Tennessee
Calhoun is a town in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 496 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Calhoun is situated along the north bank of the Hiwassee River, which flows down from the Appalachian Mountains to the east and empties into the Chickamauga Lake impoundment of the...
results in 12 deaths and 42 injured. December 2 India – A bus carrying wedding party plunged down a ravine at outskirt of Nainital, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, killing 30 people, another 20 are injured. 30 December USSR – 56 people die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway between Voronezh
Voronezh
Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...
and Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don
-History:The mouth of the Don River has been of great commercial and cultural importance since the ancient times. It was the site of the Greek colony Tanais, of the Genoese fort Tana, and of the Turkish fortress Azak...
in southwestern Russia.
1991
January 6 Kenya – A bus slammed into a tree on a railroad crossing at outskirt of Murang'aMurang'a
Murang'a is a town in Central Province of Kenya. The town was previously called Fort Hall. It is the administrative centre of Murang'a District and is mainly inhabited by the Kikuyu community....
, Central Province
Central Province (Kenya)
Kenya's Central Province covers an area of 13,191 km² and is located to north of Nairobi and west of Mt. Kenya. The province had 4,383,743 inhabitants according to the 2009 census...
, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, in an incident caused by driver losing control and excessive speed, killing 47 people, another 40 are injured. January 13 – A Dapitan
Dapitan City
The City of Dapitan is a 4th class city in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 68,178 people in 13,560 households...
-Dipolog
Dipolog City
The City of Dipolog is a 1st class city and the capital of the province of Zamboanga del Norte on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
regular route bus plunged into a river at outskirt of Sindangan
Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte
Sindangan is a 1st class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the Dec 2010 CBMS Survey on Population and Households, it has a population of 89,546 people in 20,217 households...
, Zamboanga del Norte
Zamboanga del Norte
Zamboanga del Norte or simply known as ZANORTE is a province of the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. Its capital is Dipolog City and the province borders Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay to the south and Misamis Occidental to the east...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
, killing 25 people. 15 February – A trailer truck carrying dynamite explodes at Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga
Phang Nga
Phang Nga ) is a town in southern Thailand, capital of the Phang Nga Province. The town covers the whole tambon Thai Chang of Mueang Phang Nga district. As of 2005 it has a population of 9,559 and covers an area of 6.75 km²....
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
killing 171 local villagers. March 13 UK – 1991 M4 Motorway crash
1991 M4 Motorway crash
At 14:15 hours on Wednesday 13 March 1991 there was a major crash on the M4 Motorway in the southernmost part of Lambourn near Hungerford between the Membury Service Station and Junction 14 on the eastbound carriageway. A van driver fell asleep at the wheel and skidded into the central crash...
: 10 people die in a 45 vehicle pile up in foggy conditions on the M4 motorway near Hungerford. 31 July USA – A bus carrying about 60 Girl Scouts overturns on a desert mountain road near Highway 111, killing 7 people. 4 August Zimbabwe – A crowded bus carrying school children loses control and crashes in Troutbeck, Manicaland
Troutbeck, Manicaland
Troutbeck is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located in the Eastern Highlands on the northern border of Nyanga National Park and situated on a highland plateau at an altitude of about 2100m.-Tourism:...
, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
, killing 87 people, including 82 children. 7 August Austria – The brakes of a Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
tourist bus fail in Styria, killing 15 people and injuring 28. November 29 USA – A dust storm on Interstate 5
Interstate 5
Interstate 5 is the main Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, running largely parallel to the Pacific Ocean coastline from Canada to Mexico . It serves some of the largest cities on the U.S...
near Coalinga, California
Coalinga, California
Coalinga is a city in Fresno County, California. The population was 13,380 at the 2010 census, up from 11,668 at the 2000 census. It is the site of both Pleasant Valley State Prison and Coalinga State Hospital. Coalinga is located southwest of Fresno, at an elevation of 673 feet .-Early...
triggers a 164-vehicle pile up that leaves 17 people dead and 150 injured. 6 December Spain – A 25-vehicle pile-up crash due to dense fog on Autovía A-8
Autovía A-8
The Autovía A-8 is a highway that connects all the regions on the Northern Coast of Spain. It is known as the Autovía del Cantábrico and connects Baamonde and Bilbao, where it continues as the Autopista AP-8 to the French border...
near Amorebieta-Etxano
Amorebieta-Etxano
Amorebieta-Etxano or Zornotza are two different names for the same town and municipality located in Biscay in the Basque Country, an Autonomous Community in northern Spain. Athletic Bilbao defender Xabier Etxeita was born in Zornotza, as is Beñat Intxausti, a professional cyclist.-External links:*...
, Basque Country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....
kills 17 people and injures 50. A spark sets the pile of cars afire.
1992
March 1 Bangladesh – A regular route bus with 100 passengers vaulted into a road side creek at outskirt of Jaldhalca, Nilphamari DistrictNilphamari District
Nilphamari is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rangpur Division.-Geography: with an area of 1640.91 km², is bounded by Kuchbihar district of West Bengal on the north, Rangpur district on the south, Lalmonirhat district on the east and Panchagarh and Dinajpur districts on...
, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
, killing 25 people. April 3 – A regular route bus with eighty passengers exploded and caught fire, and passengers jumping from out of window, because of broke open a door at outskirt of Yiyang
Yiyang
Yiyang is a prefecture-level city at the Zi River in Hunan province, China. According to the 2010 Census, Yiyang has a population of 4,313,084 inhabitants residing in an area of 12,144 km². It can be said that the population of the city hasn't changed since the last census in 2000, when the data...
, Hunan
Hunan
' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...
, China, killing 55 people. April 12 South Africa – A bus carrying seventy school children ripped apart, after crashing into Buffalo River
Buffalo River (KwaZulu-Natal)
The Buffalo River is the largest tributary of the Thukela River. Its source is northeast of Volksrust, close to the Mpumalanga / KwaZulu-Natal border in South Africa. It follows a southerly route into KwaZulu-Natal past Newcastle then turns southeast past Rorke's Drift, before joining the Tugela...
bridge, Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, killing 33 people. April 18 Argentina – A Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
-Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...
regular route bus smashed with three vehicles and foggy condition at outskirt of Mar del Plata, 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...
, killing 32 people and injuring 26. 19 August – A bus falls down an embankment on the A7
Autopista AP-7
The Autopista AP-7 is a Spanish autopista . It is a toll motorway that runs along the Mediterranean coast of Spain.AP-7 has two different sections :...
highway in Spain, killing 45 and injuring 11. 6 September Germany – Near Donaueschingen
Donaueschingen
Donaueschingen is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar Kreis. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Danube ....
in the Black Forest
Black Forest
The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres ....
, a bus collides into a passenger car and is slit open by a crash barrier. 21 people die, 32 are injured seriously. September 27 Nepal – A truck plunged 450 feet below at outskirt of Dhankuta
Dhankuta
Dhankuta is a hill town of Nepal located along the geographical coordinates- 26° 59' 0" N / 87° 20' 0" E, with about 20,000 inhabitants, located in the Dhankuta District in the eastern part of Nepal. Until about 1963 Dhankuta Bazaar was the administrative headquarters for the whole of...
, Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, killing 21 people. September 27 Hungary – A minibus carrying German travellers collided with local train crossing at Agárd
Agárd
Agárd is a small village on the shores of Lake Velence in Hungary. It is a popular tourist destination amongst Hungarians....
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, killing 16 people, another three are injured. October 9 Brazil – A bus carrying October Revelers entertainment group drove off a mountain road and plunged down cliff at outskirt of Sao Luis do Puruna, Parana
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 34 people.
1993
9 January Argentina – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in Santo Tomé, CorrientesSanto Tomé, Corrientes
Santo Tomé is a city in the province of Corrientes in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 22,634 inhabitants as of the . It is the head town of the department of the same name....
, 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...
, killing 55 people and injuring 70. April 30 – A passenger train hit a bus carrying children of Shergli Primary schools at unguarded railroad crossing at Phutthamonthon
Phutthamonthon
Phutthamonthon is a Buddhist park in the Phutthamonthon district, Nakhon Pathom Province of Thailand, west of Bangkok. It is highlighted by a 15.87 m high Buddha statue, which is considered to be the highest free-standing Buddha statue of the world.The park was created in 1957 on the basis...
, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, killing 36 people including 28 children. May 13 Russia – A Sogratl-Makhachkala
Makhachkala
-Twin towns/sister cities:Makhachkala is twinned with: Sfax, Tunisia Siping, China Spokane, United States Vladikavkaz, Russia Yalova, Turkey Ndola, Zambia-See also:*...
regular route bus plunged into 260-feet george at outskirt of Gunib
Gunib
Gunib , also spelled Ghunib, is an aul in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is the administrative center of Gunibsky District. Population: 2,406 ; 2,405 ....
, Caucasus Mountains
Caucasus Mountains
The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region .The Caucasus Mountains includes:* the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and* the Lesser Caucasus Mountains....
area, Dagestan
Dagestan
The Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and the largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea...
, Russia, killing 25 people. May 27 Peru – A bus carrying Santiago de Chocorvos Conference business owners plunged 160-feet from road near foothill at outskirt of Ica
Ica (city)
The city of Ica is the capital of the Ica Region in southern Peru. While the area was long inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples, the Spanish conquistador Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera claimed its founding in 1563. As of 2005, it had an estimated population of over 219,856...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, in an incident caused by mechanical failure, killing 21 people and injuring eleven. July 24 Indonesia – A Surabaya
Surabaya
Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million , and the capital of the province of East Java...
-Pandanwangi passenger train rammed into an intercity bus an unguarded railroad crossing, and a bus dragged for eighty-yard before the train halted at Jombang
Jombang Regency
Jombang is a regency of East Java, Indonesia. Its capital is Jombang. The regency has an area of 1,159.5 km² and population of 1,163,420...
, West Java
West Java
West Java , with a population of over 43 million, is the most populous and most densely populated province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, it is slightly smaller in area than densely populated Taiwan, but with nearly double the population...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, killing fifteen people and injuring twenty. October 3 Kenya – A multipile road disaster, including a passenger bus, truck and many vehicles are crashed at Nakuru-Eldoret
Eldoret
Eldoret is a town in western Kenya and the administrative centre of Uasin Gishu District of Rift Valley Province. Lying south of the Cherangani Hills, the local elevation varies from about 2100 metres above sea level at the airport to more than 2700 metres in nearby areas...
road, Nakuru
Nakuru
Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley province, with roughly 300,000 inhabitants, and currently the fourth largest urban centre in the country, lies about 1850 m above sea level...
, Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, killing 35 people and injuring 41. 10 November – A fiery pile-up on autoroute A10
A10 autoroute (France)
The A10, also called L'Aquitaine, is an Autoroute in France, running for 549 km from the A6 south of Paris to the A630 at Bordeaux. It generally parallels the N10 Route Nationale, but deviates significantly from the older N10 between Paris and Tours and between Poitiers and Bordeaux...
near , France leaves 15 people dead and 53 injured. 17 November UK – The M40 minibus crash
M40 minibus crash
The M40 minibus crash occurred on 18 November 1993, just after midnight. It involved a minibus and a motorway maintenance vehicle. The minibus was transporting 14 children home from a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, when it veered into the back of the maintenance truck which was parked...
leaves 12 children dead when their minibus collides with a maintenance vehicle near Warwick
Warwick
Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England. The town lies upon the River Avon, south of Coventry and just west of Leamington Spa and Whitnash with which it is conjoined. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 23,350...
, England, causing new road security campaigns. December 27 Brazil – An overloaded Curitiba-Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
regular route bus collided with sports car and plunged into a ravine at outskirt of Curitiba
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
, Parana
Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, killing 41 people, another 79 are injured.
1994
January 10 China – A bus pass through guardrail, veered off Feiyun bridge river at Rui'an, ZhejiangZhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...
, China, killing 45 people. January 11 South Africa – A Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
-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...
laxury bus plunged off a bridge at between Bethlehem
Bethlehem
Bethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank of the Jordan River, near Israel and approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...
and Harrismith
Harrismith
Harrismith, named after Sir Harry Smith, is a large town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated on the N3 highway approximately midway between Johannesburg, about 300 km north-east, and Durban. The town is at the junction with the N5 highway, which continues west towards the...
, Orange Free State
Orange Free State
The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province...
, South Africa, killing 14 people, another 27 are injured. January 31 Vietnam – A regular route bus caught fire and plunged into 300-feet below of sea at national highway 1, Ca Pass, Khanh Hoa Province
Khanh Hoa Province
Khánh Hòa is a province of Vietnam, located in the South Central Coast. It has a population of 1,066,300 and spans an area of 5,197 km². Its capital is Nha Trang...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, killing 28 people, another 11 are injured. March 14 India – A bus carrying 75 passengers swerved off an iron and concrete bridge into a fast flowing river in Kadava
Kadava
Kadava was the name of a Tamil ruling dynasty who ruled parts of the Tamil country during the thirteenth and the fourteenth century CE. Kadavas were related to the Pallava dynasty and ruled from Kudalur near Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu.The Kadava kingdom was at the height of their power briefly...
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, India, killing 64 people. 2 May – Poland bus disaster of 1994
Poland bus disaster of 1994
Poland's bus disaster of 1994 was a bus crash near Gdańsk involving a commuter bus PKS that veered into a road-side tree. In the accident, 32 people died and 45 were injured.-Accident:...
: 32 people die in collision between a Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej transport agency bus and a tree near Gdańsk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
. May 24 India – A bus rolled down a mountainside road at outskirt of Shimla
Shimla
Shimla , formerly known as Simla, is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India. A popular tourist destination, Shimla is often referred to as the "Queen of Hills," a term coined by the British...
, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, India, killing 14 people, another 11 are injured. May 26 South Africa – A bus lost control and plunged into dam at Lothain, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, killing 36 people. May 26 South Africa – A minibus head-on collided a truck at outskirt of Middolburg, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, killing 13 people. September 1 Ecuador – A bus carrying musical band has lost control, brake failure, and plunged 600-feet down a highway embankment at outskirt of Mitad del Mundo
Mitad del Mundo
The Mitad del Mundo is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. It is located in the San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, north of the center of Quito....
, Pichincha
Pichincha Province
Pichincha is a province of Ecuador located in the northern sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura & Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi & Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo & Sucumbíos to the east, and Esmeraldas & Santo Domingo de los...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, killing 50 people. October 16 Nepal – A commuter bus plunged off a mountain road and fell 600-feet at outskirt of Amarai, Narayani
Narayani Zone
- Geography :Narayani contains parts of the Terai, Inner Terai, and Hill regions of Nepal, but it does not contain any of the Mountain or Himalayan region. Narayani is rich in flora and fauna...
, Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, killing 15 people, another 21 are injured.
1995
January 21 Mexico – A truck carrying religious pilgrims plunged 50 feet off a highway outside OaxacaOaxaca
Oaxaca , , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 571 municipalities; of which 418 are governed by the system of customs and traditions...
city, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, killing 22 people and injuring ten. February 5 Colombia – A bus collided with a truck carrying cement near Ponedera
Ponedera
Ponedera is a municipality and town in the Colombian department of Atlántico.-External links:...
, Atlántico Department
Atlántico Department
Atlántico is a department of Colombia, located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its south, and the Magdalena Department to its east separated by the Magdalena River...
, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, killing 13 people. March 12 – A truck carrying benzene rammed a bus outside Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur is an industrial city in Kanchipuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in proximity to Chennai. It is famous for being the birth place of Sri Ramanuja, one of the most prominent Hindu Vaishnava saints as well as the town where former Indian Prime Minister...
, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, India, killing 110 people.
1996
January 1 Mexico – 2 buses collided after one veered into the wrong lane at Highway Two line, Sonoytai, Plutarco Elías CallesPlutarco Elías Calles
Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, but he continued to be the de facto ruler from 1928–1935, a period known as the maximato...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, killing 23 people, another 50 are injured. January 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo – A Kinshasa-Kingasani regular route bus plunged a ravine and skidded off a main road at Kimbanseke
Kimbanseke
Kimbanseke is a municipality in the Tshangu district of Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is situated in the southeast of Kinshasa. Settlement in this hilled area is relatively new.- External links :*...
area, Kinshasa
Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River....
, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
, killing 72 people. February 10 Japan – A huge shard of rock weighing about 21,000 tons smashed through a Toyohama tunnel, national highway route 229, Yoichi
Yoichi, Hokkaido
is a town located in the Yoichi District, Shiribeshi, Hokkaidō, Japan.-Demographics:As of 2008, the population of Yoichi is estimated to be 21,908 with a density of 162.21 persons per km². The total area of Yoichi is 140.60 km². The climate is mild , with temperatures ranging from -6°C to...
, western Hokkaidō
Hokkaido
, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...
, Japan, crushing a Shakotan
Shakotan, Hokkaido
is a town located in Shakotan District, Shiribeshi, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2008, the town has an estimated population of 2,799 and a density of 12.37 persons per km². The total area is 238.20 km².-External links:* in Japanese...
-Otaru
Otaru, Hokkaido
is a city and port in Shiribeshi, Hokkaido, Japan, northwest of Sapporo. The city faces the Ishikari Bay, and has long served as the main port of the bay. With its many historical buildings, Otaru is a popular tourist destination...
regular route bus and a car, killing 20 people. 25 February Bolivia – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia
La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country after Santa Cruz de la Sierra...
, killing at least 35 people. 28 February Spain – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen
Bailen
Bailen may refer to:* Bailén, a town in Jaén, Spain* Battle of Bailén of 1808* General Emilio Aguinaldo, Cavite, a town in the Philippines, which was formerly known as Bailen...
, Spain, killing 29 people and injuring 17. March 17 Saudi Arabia – A bus carrying illegal foreigners has crushed at outskirt of 'Asir, Jizan
Jizan
-Ethnography:The inhabitants of Jazan, are made up of Arabs. Islam is the religion of almost the totality of the inhabitants of the city and the province.-External links:*http://www.jazan.gov.sa* *http://krwetatnt.com/vb/...
, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, killing 45 people. April 4 – A Seoul commuter bus plunged at Han River
Han River (Korea)
The Han River is a major river in South Korea and the fourth longest river on the Korean peninsula after the Amnok, Duman, and Nakdong rivers. It is formed by the confluence of the Namhan River , which originates in Mount Daedeok, and the Bukhan River , which originates on the slopes of Mount...
, Yeouido
Yeouido
Yeouido is a large island in the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. It is Seoul's main business and investment banking district. Its 8.4 square kilometers are home to some 30,988 people. The island is located in the Yeongdeungpo-gu district of Seoul, and largely corresponds to the precinct of...
, Yeongdeungpo-gu
Yeongdeungpo-gu
Yeongdeungpo-gu is an administrative district in southwest Seoul, South Korea. Although the origin of the name is uncertain, the first two syllables are thought to be from "yeongdeung" or "divine ascent", a shamanic rite. The third syllable is "po", representing water , referring to the...
, Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, killing 20 people, another injuring are 38. September 26 Russia – A local bus hit by passenger train at railroad crossing of near Konnoarmayskaya, Rostov
Rostov
Rostov is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, one of the oldest in the country and a tourist center of the Golden Ring. It is located on the shores of Lake Nero, northeast of Moscow. Population:...
, Yaroslavl Oblast
Yaroslavl Oblast
Yaroslavl Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma, and Vologda Oblasts. This geographic location affords the oblast the advantages of proximity to Moscow and St. Petersburg...
, Russia, killing 21 people and injuring twenty. September 29 Japan – A minivan carrying construction workers crashed at national highway route 9, Muraoka, Hyōgo
Muraoka, Hyogo
was a town located in Mikata District, Hyōgo, Japan.On April 1, 2005 Muraoka was merged with the town of Kasumi, from Kinosaki District, and the town of Mikata, also from Mikata District, to form the new town of Kami, in Mikata District, and no longer exists as an independent municipality...
, Japan, killing 10 people. November 1 Peru – A bus carrying 60 passengers has lost control and plunged off 1500-feet below of cliff at outskirt of San Mateo
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
, Matucana
Matucana
Matucana is a genus of cacti , containing approximately 20 species of mostly globular plants. The genus is only known from Peru, mostly along the Marañón River....
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing 39 people, injuring 15.
1997
January 14 Egypt – A crowded city bus plunges into the NileNile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in North Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is long. It runs through the ten countries of Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt.The Nile has two major...
in Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, killing 39 people and injuring 24. January 19 India – A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
, India, killing 29 people and injuring 12. 10 March United Kingdom – 3 people killed and 60 injured in 160 vehicle collision
1997 M42 motorway crash
The 1997 M42 motorway crash is a multiple vehicle collision which occurred on 10 March 1997 on the M42 motorway at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom as a result of fog...
on the M42 motorway
M42 motorway
The M42 motorway is a major road in England. The motorway runs north east from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire to just south west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, passing Redditch, Solihull, the National Exhibition Centre and Tamworth on the way. The section between the M40 and M6 road forms...
due to fog. March 24 South Korea – A Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
bound passenger train smashed into packed local bus, where flipped a vehicle onto railroad side at Namwon
Namwon
Namwon is a city in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. Namwon is about 45 minutes from the provincial capital of Jeonju, which is three hours away from Seoul....
, Jeollabuk-do
Jeollabuk-do
Jeollabuk-do is a province in the southwest of South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Jeolla province, and remained a province of Korea until the country's division in 1945, then became part of South Korea...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, killing fourteen people and injuring twenty. May 8 India – A truck carrying local wedding couples and families are plunged by lost control with overturned at Hamirpur
Hamirpur District, Himachal Pradesh
Hamirpur district is one of the 12 districts of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The headquarters of the district is in the Hamirpur town...
, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, India, killing 70 people, another 8 are injured. August 31 France – 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...
was killed in a Paris underpass along with 2 other passengers. October 13 Canada – Les Éboulements bus accident
1997 Les Éboulements bus accident
The 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, also known as the St. Joseph Bus Accident, occurred on Thanksgiving Day, October 13, 1997, in Les Éboulements , Quebec, Canada...
in 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....
, Canada, results in 44 deaths when a bus plunges into a ravine, the worst bus accident in Canadian history. October 24 Turkey – 48 people, most of whom were university students, killed in a collision of an empty gasoline tanker truck and a passenger bus in Karapınar
Karapinar
Karapınar is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 55,734 of which 35,285 live in the town of Karapınar. Volcanic Karapınar Field is located nearby....
on Konya
Konya
Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...
-Ereğli
Eregli
Ereğli is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2009 census, the population of the district is 135,008 of which 95,056 live in the town of Ereğli.-History:...
motorway. The passengers were trapped in the bus when both vehicles got aflame. The accident led to wide debate on fire-safety standarts of passenger buses. October 25 South Africa – A bus smashed into a carrying gasoline tanker truck at Togela River, Port Shepstone, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. This bus carrying Inkatha Freedom Party
Inkatha Freedom Party
The Inkatha Freedom Party is a political party in South Africa. Since its founding, it has been led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It is currently the fourth largest party in the National Assembly of South Africa.-History:...
devotees and members. At least 33 people killed. November 6 Cuba – A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province
Holguín Province
Holguín is one of the provinces of Cuba, the third most populous after Ciudad de la Habana and Santiago de Cuba. It lies in the northeast of the country. Its major cities include Holguín , Banes, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa....
, Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
, killing at least 56 people. November 19 India – An overloaded school bus skidded of a bridge and plunged into the Yamuna
Yamuna
The Yamuna is the largest tributary river of the Ganges in northern India...
River near the outskirts of New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
, India. The accident resulted in 29 deaths and injuries to around 60 passengers.
1998
January 5 Zimbabwe – 43 people were killed and more than 60 seriously injured when a bus plunged down a steep slope in NyangaNyanga, Zimbabwe
Nyanga is a town in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, located adjacent to Nyanga National Park in the Eastern Highlands about 105 km north of Mutare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 2,973....
district, after the brakes of a bus failed. January 7 Kenya – A Meru
Meru, Kenya
-Transport:The City of Meru is linked to Nairobi by a paved road, whether from the south around the east side of Mount Kenya, via Embu, or from the northwest around the west and north side of Mount Kenya, via Nanyuki and Timau....
-Nairobi
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...
Kenyan Bus Service regular route bus lost control of the vehicle and plummeted down 100-feet embankment into Nithi river, Kenya, killing 58 people, another 42 are injured. January 13 India – A bus carrying 86 students and parents back from a Murshidabad
Murshidabad
Murshidabad is a city in Murshidabad district of West Bengal state in India. The city of Murshidabad is located on the southern bank of the Bhagirathi, a distributary of the Ganges River. It was the capital of undivided Bengal during the Mughal rule. Nawabs of Bengal used to rule Bengal from this...
picnic site, where skidded in fog with plundge into Bhagirathi River
Bhagirathi River
The Bhāgīrathī is a turbulent Himalayan river in the state of Uttarakhand, India, that is the source stream of the Ganges—the major river of the Gangetic plain of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism.-Etymology:...
at Jalangi, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, in an incident caused by lost control and exceed speed, killing 65 people. April 3 Turkey – A petrol tanker truck collided with a bus of Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
s returning from Syria at outskirt of Birecik
Birecik
Birecik , also formerly known as Bir and during the Crusades as Bile, is a town and district of Şanlıurfa Province of Turkey, on the River Euphrates....
, Şanlıurfa
Sanliurfa
Şanlıurfa, , often simply known as Urfa in daily language , in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323 inhabitants Şanlıurfa, , often simply known as Urfa in daily language (Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ Urhoy,Armenian Ուռհա Owr'ha, Arabic الرها ar-Ruhā), in ancient times Edessa, is a city with 482,323...
, Turkey, killing 28 people, another 7 are injured. April 15 South Africa – A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal
Newcastle is the third largest city and urban center in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Newcastle is located in the North West corner of the province along the Ncandu River and is moderately industrial....
, killing 31 people, including 27 children. August 31 Morocco – A pickup truck carrying attending wedding couples and families head-on collide with another truck at El Jadida
El Jadida
El Jadida is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in the province of El Jadida. It has a population of 144,440...
, Assabah
Assabah
Assabah is a daily arabophone Moroccan newspaper. It is a sister publication of L'Economiste....
, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
, killing at least 20 people. September 8 Brazil – A tanker truck flips and explodes on a highway north of São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, setting fire to two buses and killing at least 50 people. December 23 Turkey – An Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
-Samsun
Samsun
Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...
regular route bus head-on collided with a fuel truck and burning both vehicle at outskirt of Samsun, northern Turkey, killing 11 people and injuring ten. December 31 USA – 100 cars crashed on an ice-slicked section of Interstate-75 in central Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, killing one and injuring 39.
1999
January 4 China – A local bus carrying 40 passengers exploded and blast ripped at outskirt of LinghaiLinghai
Linghai is a city in the west of Liaoning province, Northeast China. Lying on the west bank of the Daling River , which flows into the Liaodong Bay near the city, it is under the administration of Jinzhou City, the seat of which is ....
, Jinzhou
Jinzhou
Jinzhou , is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, China. It is a geographically strategic city located in the "Liaoxi Corridor" , which connects land transportation between North China and Northeast China. Jinzhou is China's northernmost seaport and the coastal economic center of West...
, Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...
, China, killing 18 people. January 9 Georgia – A bus carrying funeral mourners ran off the road and plunged into a river below of 750 feet at outskirt of Kazbegi, Khevi
Khevi
Khevi is a small historical-geographic area in northeastern Georgia. It is included in the modern-day Kazbegi district, Mtskheta-Mtianeti region...
, Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
, killing 38 people. January 24 Austria – A bus carrying Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
skiers where plunged off a hillside at outskirts of Deutschlandsberg
Deutschlandsberg
Deutschlandsberg is a town in Deutschlandsberg district of Styria, Austria. It covers an area of 24 km² and has a population of 7,983. It is located in southern Austria, near Slovenia and is approx. 35 km from Graz. Popular tourist attractions in that area include the Deutschlandsberg...
, Styria, Austria, killing 18 people, another 32 are injured. 15 March USA – 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois train accident. The train City of New Orleans
City of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans is a nightly passenger train operated by Amtrak which travels between Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. Before Amtrak's formation in 1971, the train was operated by the Illinois Central Railroad along the same route . The train currently operates on a 19½ hour...
collides with a truck and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois
Bourbonnais, Illinois
Bourbonnais is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,256 at the 2000 census, but it was estimated to have grown to 19,119 in 2009...
, United States, killing 11 people. &
24 March France & Italy. – 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc TunnelMont Blanc Tunnel
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a road tunnel in the Alps under the Mont Blanc mountain, linking Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France , and Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy . It is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes, particularly for Italy, which relies on the tunnel for transporting as much as...
fire. May 9 Nepal – A bus slipped and plunged 680-feet down slope at Kapurbot Bazar, Saiyan, Rapti
Rapti Zone
Rapti Anchal in the Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal. It is named after the West Rapti River which drains Rolpa, Pyuthan and part of Dang district. The remainder of Dang and part of Salyan are drained by the Babai. The remainder of Salyan and all of Rukum are drained by the Bheri.The...
, Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, killing 32 people, another 36 are injured. 9 May USA – A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610
Interstate 610 (Louisiana)
Interstate 610 is a long auxiliary route of Interstate 10 that lies entirely within the boundaries of New Orleans, Louisiana.-Route description:...
in New Orleans, killing 22 people and injuring 24. May 29 Austria – 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel
Tauern Road Tunnel
The Tauern Road Tunnel is located in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg in Austria on the Tauern Autobahn north - south connection between Germany and Italy and Slovenia. This is a toll road. Since October 2007, the toll has been 12 euros per car and journey...
in Austria. June 7 India – A bus carrying 119 passengers plunged into a lake near Davangere, Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
, India, the accident was caused by excessive speed over bad roads, resulting in loss of control. Another contributing factor was overloading of the bus, with several travellers riding on the roof. The accident resulted in 94 deaths and another 25 were injured. July 18 India – A Kiari-Shimla
Shimla
Shimla , formerly known as Simla, is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India. A popular tourist destination, Shimla is often referred to as the "Queen of Hills," a term coined by the British...
HRTC regular route bus carrying 90 passengers aboard plunged into 40-feet deep gorge at outskirt of Bagar
Bagar
Bagar is a village in Lhari County, Nagqu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.It lies at an altitude of 5,195 metres, above sea level.-External links and references:*...
, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, India, killing 18 people, another 55 are injured. July 24 Canada – A trailer truck crashes into cars slowed by roadwork
Roadwork
Roadwork is a novel by Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, which is no longer in print...
on Quebec Autoroute 20
Quebec Autoroute 20
Autoroute 20 is a major Quebec Autoroute, following the Saint Lawrence River through one of the more densely-populated parts of Canada, and is part of the Trans-Canada Highway. At , it is the longest Autoroute in Quebec...
near Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing 4 people and injuring 11. A public investigation is launched. 3 September Canada – Dense fog on Highway 401
Highway 401 (Ontario)
King's Highway 401, also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway and colloquially as the four-oh-one, is a 400-Series Highway in the Canadian province of Ontario stretching from Windsor to the Quebec border...
near Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...
reduces visibility to less than a meter (3 ft) and causes a 87 vehicles pileup and fire that kills 8 people and injures 33. Many vehicles are fused together by the intense heat. September 14 China – A long distance regular route bus overturned and plunged into canyon at outskirt of Kaijiang
Kaijiang County
Kaijiang County is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Dazhou city....
, Dazhou, Sichuan
Sichuan
' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...
, China, killing 46 people, another 9 are injured. September 25 – A bus went off a highway in foggy weather and crashed at outskirt of Kokstad
Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal
Kokstad is a town in the Sisonke District of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Kokstad is named after the Griqua chief Adam Kok III who settled here in 1863. Stad is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for city....
, KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, killing 15 people, another 20 are injured. October 11 Indonesia (Java) – A Jakarta
Jakarta
Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
-Bandung
Bandung
Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, and the country's third largest city, and 2nd largest metropolitan area in Indonesia, with a population of 7.4 million in 2007. Located 768 metres above sea level, approximately 140 km southeast of Jakarta, Bandung has cooler...
Turanga express bus crashed into cliffside at outskirt of Lembah Hijau, Puncak
Puncak
Puncak is the popular name for the area surrounding the peak of Mt.Gede-Pangrango, located in the Bogor-Cianjur-Sukabumi regencies, in the province of West Java, Indonesia....
, West Java
West Java
West Java , with a population of over 43 million, is the most populous and most densely populated province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, it is slightly smaller in area than densely populated Taiwan, but with nearly double the population...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, killing 45 people, another 29 are injured. November 19 – A commuter bus collided with many vehicles, include truck, bus at Lagos-Kano expressway at outskirt of Ilorin
Ilorin
Ilorin is one of the largest cities in Nigeria and is the capital of Kwara State. As of 2007 it had a population of 847,582.-History:Ilorin was founded by the Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, in 1450...
, Kwara State
Kwara State
Kwara State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Ilorin. The primary ethnic group of Kwara State is Yoruba, with significant Nupe, Bariba and Fulani minorities.- History :...
, Nigeria. Aftermath, a bus caught fire on impact. This accident killed 22 people, another 16 are injured. December 30 Pakistan – A Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
-Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
regular route bus overturned and caught fire at Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
-Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
M2 expressway, outskirt of Kallar Kahar
Kallar Kahar
Kallar Kahar is a union council and subdivision of Chakwal District in Punjab, Pakistan. It is a tourist destination located 25 kilometres southwest of Chakwal along the motorway. It is notable for its natural gardens, peacocks and a saltwater lake...
, Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, in an incident caused by exceed speed, killing 48 people, another 20 are injured.
See also
- AccidentAccidentAn accident or mishap is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity. It implies a generally negative outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its...
- List of bridge failures
- List of level crossing accidents
- Lists of rail accidents includes level crossingLevel crossingA level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...
accidents
External links
- Early Auto Accidents Photos of Auto Accidents from the 1920s to 1950's
- Partial list of Highway disasters
- Descansos.org :: Project to create awareness of victims of vehicular fatalities.
- A Condensed History of Vehicle Recovery in the United Kingdom.