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This list of traffic collisions records serious road crashes: those that have a large death toll, occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other historical significance. For crashes that killed notable people, refer to
List of people who died in traffic collisions This list contains notable people who have been killed in traffic collisions. This list does not include those who were killed competing on closed road events whether in motorsport or in competitive cycling events. Passengers of a vehicle are i ...
. The prevalence of bus crashes in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency. This list records crashes up to the year 1999. For later crashes see: List of traffic collisions (2000–present). __NOTOC__


1700s

* 1771 – France –
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 – 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built the world's first full-size and working self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle, the "Fardier à vapeur" – effectively the world's first automobile. B ...
's second
steam-powered A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a Cylinder (locomotive), cylinder. This pus ...
vehicle is said to have crashed into a wall during a test run, in what would have been the first automobile crash. 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

* July 1834 – United Kingdom – A steam carriage constructed by
John Scott Russell John Scott Russell FRSE FRS FRSA (9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow – 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built '' Great Eastern'' in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brune ...
, which was operating a public transport service between
Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated pop ...
and Paisley, overturned after hitting an obstruction in the road. This caused a boiler explosion which killed five passengers and injured others. Russell's carriage comprised a self-propelling steam engine pulling a combined passenger and fuel tender. * August 31, 1869 – Ireland – While riding as a passenger with relatives in an experimental
steam car A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE) in which the fuel is combusted outside of the engine, unlike an internal combustion engine (ICE) in which fuel is combusted in ...
,
Mary Ward Mary Ward may refer to: Scientists and academics * Mary Ward (nurse) (1884–1972) English nurse to the boat people on the waterways * Mary Ward (scientist) (née King, 1827–1869) Irish amateur scientist, was killed by an experimental steam car ...
was thrown from the car and fell under the wheels as it rounded a bend. Mary Rose's collision may be characterized as the first fatality involving a vehicle in the form of a contemporary motorcar, in which the engine is mounted and passengers ride on the same frame. It took place in the town of Birr, which was known at that time as Parsonstown. The car was built by her cousins, the sons of
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (17 June 1800 – 31 October 1867), was an Irish astronomer, naturalist, and engineer. He was president of the Royal Society (UK), the most important association of naturalists in the world in the nineteenth ...
. * 1891 – United States –
John William Lambert John William Lambert (January 29, 1860  May 20, 1952) was an American automobile manufacturer pioneer and inventor. He is the inventor of the first practical American gasoline automobile. He operated large manufacturing companies that made ...
was involved in the first recorded automobile crash in American history. The crash occurred in
Ohio City, Ohio Ohio City is a village in Liberty Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, United States. The population was 705 at the 2010 census. It is included within the Van Wert, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Ohio City is located at (40.770878, ...
. Lambert's vehicle—the first single-cylinder gasoline automobile—was carrying Lambert and James Swoveland when it hit a tree root, causing the car to careen out of control and smash into a hitching post. Injuries were minor. * August 17, 1896 – United Kingdom – Death of Bridget Driscoll. Bridget Driscoll is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car crash, and the first pedestrian victim of an automobile crash in the
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. As she crossed the grounds of
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in London, she was struck by an automobile belonging to the
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that was being used to give demonstration rides. * February 25, 1899 – United Kingdom – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer are thrown from their vehicle on
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,
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, and killed. Sewell's death is the first recorded fatality of a driver. * September 13, 1899 – United States –
Henry H. Bliss The death of Henry Hale Bliss (June 13, 1830 – September 14, 1899) was the first recorded instance of a person being killed in a motor vehicle collision in the United States. Death On September 13, 1899, at West 74th Street and Central ...
is the first person killed by a car in the
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. He was struck by an electric-powered
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while exiting the 8th Avenue trolley on
West 74th Street 74th Street is an east–west street carrying pedestrian traffic and eastbound automotive/bicycle traffic in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs through the Upper East Side neighborhood (in ZIP code 10021, where it is known as East ...
and
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in
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.


1920s

* June 10, 1925 – United Kingdom – Dibbles Bridge coach crash. A tour coach ran away following brake failure and fell off a bridge near
Hebden, North Yorkshire Hebden ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Craven District of North Yorkshire, England, and one of four villages in the ecclesiastical parish of Linton. It lies near Grimwith Reservoir and Grassington, in Wharfedale in the Yorksh ...
whilst en route to
Bolton Abbey Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England, takes its name from the ruins of the 12th-century Augustinian monastery now known as Bolton Priory. The priory, closed in the 1539 Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by King H ...
, killing seven passengers.


1930s

* August 29, 1935 – Belgium – Queen Astrid of Belgium is killed in a car crash in Küssnacht am Rigi, near
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,
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, Switzerland. She was riding in a
Packard One-Twenty The Packard Twelfth Series One-Twenty is an automobile produced by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, from 1935 to 1937 and from 1939 through the 1941 model years. The One-Twenty model designation was derived from the wheelbase, a ...
driven by her husband
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when it went off the road and crashed into a pear tree. * March 25, 1937 – United States – A bus carrying a
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team crashed just west of
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, killing 21 of the 23 people on the bus. * April 4, 1939 – Iraq –
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Ghazi of Iraq Ghazi ibn Faisal ( ar, غازي ابن فيصل, Gâzî ibn-i Faysal) (21 March 1912 – 4 April 1939) was the King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, the only son ...
is killed in a car crash in
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.


1940s

* October 1941 – United Kingdom – A
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bus crashes into a lorry and catches fire near Cheltenham,
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, killing 9 airmen and injuring 13. * June 1944 – United Kingdom – A
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lorry crashes into a house in
Burley in Wharfedale Burley in Wharfedale is a village and (as just Burley) a civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the Wharfedale valley. The village is situated on the A65 road, approximately north-west from Leeds, ...
,
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, killing 19 soldiers."Twenty-three Cadets Killed by Bus at Chatham", ''
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'', December 5, 1951
* October 1944 – United Kingdom – A
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bus collides with a lorry near
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, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 21. * August 1946 – United States – 2 cars collided head-on on U.S. Route 30, 27 miles northwest of
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, killing 5 people and injuring 2. * October 1947 – United Kingdom – A bus crashes into a building in
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, Yorkshire, killing 9 people. * January 1948 – United Kingdom – A bus skidded into a bus queue in
Bargeddie Bargeddie (; gd, Bàrr Geadaidh) is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, just inside 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 ...
, near
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, Scotland, killing 8 people and injuring 12. * November 24, 1948 – Sweden – A
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on line 96 collided with a truck, which loaded with concrete slabs that were heading in the opposite direction. The bus drove off Essingebron in Stockholm and 11 people died.


1950s


1950

* February 11 – Japan – A Takase-
Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2. had a population of 1,461,0 ...
Kyūshū Sanko regular route bus plunges into a pond below at Matsuo,
Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 738,907 and a population density of 1,893 people per km2. The total area is 390.32 km2. had a population of 1,461,0 ...
, Kyūshū, killing 22 people and injuring 18.
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of Japan
* May – United Kingdom – A bus and a tram collide in
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, killing 7 people and injuring 43. * November 7 – Japan – A regular route bus plunges into the Mononobe river, Mirabu, eastern
Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 757,914 (1 December 2011) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and T ...
,
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, killing 33 people and injuring 24.


1951

* July 15 – Japan – A Shimokawai- Chubutenryu regular route bus plunges off the Harada bridge,
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, Urakawa, Hokkaidō, northwestern
Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the north ...
, killing 24. * December 4 – United Kingdom – Gillingham bus disaster. During an evening march in a badly-lit area, a
double-decker bus A double-decker bus or double-deck bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks. They are used for mass transport in the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Europe, Asia and also in cities such as Sydney; the best-known example is the ...
struck a company of fifty-two young members of the
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, 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 crash in British history. The crash was ruled accidental.


1954

* September 29 – Netherlands – The brakes and gear box of a Belgian tourist bus fail on the downhill slope of the
Cauberg The Cauberg is a hill in Valkenburg aan de Geul, a town in the South Limburg region of the Netherlands. The hill played an important role in the early development of tourism in Valkenburg. Today, several major tourist attractions are situated on ...
, near
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, hitting a pedestrian, then a monument and a building. 19 people were killed. * November 12 –
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– The brakes of a bus failed on the downhill slope of Plateau-Caillou in Saint-Paul. 54 people were killed.


1955

* September 30 – United States -
Death of James Dean Hollywood actor James Dean was killed at age 24 in an auto accident on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California. He had previously competed in several auto racing events, and was traveling to a sports car racing competition when he was involv ...
. The death of Hollywood actor
James Dean James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, ''Rebel Without a Cause' ...
occurred near Cholame, California. Dean had previously competed in several auto racing events, and was traveling to a sports car racing competition when his
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collided with another car at the junction of California State Route 46 (former 466) and California State Route 41. He was 24 years old.


1957

* June 6 – United States – An early morning collision occurred north of
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, where a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulled in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes. It killed 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history. * November 10 – 1957 Saint-Paul bus accident – The brakes of a bus ruptured on an incline, causing 27 deaths.


1958

* February 28 – United States –
Prestonsburg, Kentucky, bus crash The collision and plunge into Big Sandy River involving a school bus near Prestonsburg, Kentucky, on February 28, 1958, resulted in the deaths of 26 students and the bus's driver. It was the third-deadliest bus crash in United States history ...
. A school bus in
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hit a wrecker truck on
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and plunged down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children died in the worst school bus crash in U.S. history. * December 22 – Greece – A suburban bus from
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to Chouliarades carrying 34 people failed to complete a manoeuvre on the steep road near the village of Petrovouni, Ioannina. It subsequently fell down the 350m slope to Arachthos gorge, killing 29 people, 7 of which were minors.


1959

* June 20 – West Germany –
Lauffen bus crash The Lauffen bus crash of 20 June 1959 resulted in the deaths of 45 people. At the time it was the worst accident involving a bus since the end of the Second World War. A bus chartered by German Railways on a regular service collided with an expres ...
. A crowded bus collided with a train on a level crossing in
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, killing 45 people. It was the worst bus crash in German history. * September 10 – United States – A school bus stalled on railroad tracks in
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, was hit by a train, killing 7 children and injuring 11.


1960s


1960

* July 24 – Japan – A charter bus collides with a regular route bus, the charter bus plunging into a valley along the toll road of
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, Ōtsu, Shiga, killing 30 people and injuring another 18. * September 14 – Greece – A truck struck a suburban bus which subsequently crashed into an olive tree between
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and
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, killing 11 people. * November 29 – Canada – 17 high schoolers from the town of Chipman, Alberta died after a school bus was hit by a train near Lamont, Alberta. An additional 25 people were injured.


1961

* December 14 – United States – 20 schoolchildren were killed in a bus-train collision in Evans, Colorado. The bus driver had stopped at the rural track but did not see or hear the train arriving. The bus had almost passed over the track when it was struck.


1962

* June 11 – Argentina – Villa Soldati level crossing tragedy. A train struck a municipal bus in
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whilst it was carrying school children to kindergarten. 42 children were killed and 83 were injured.


1963

* February 7 – New Zealand – Brynderwyn bus accident. A bus in
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leaves the road after brake failure and rolls down a valley, killing 15 people, and becomes the worst road crash in New Zealand history up to that time. * April 7 – Kenya – A bus returning from a church meeting plunged into the Tiva River,
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, Machakos, killing at least 72 people. * May 18 – United States – A bus carrying 42 migrant agricultural workers crashed into a canal in
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, killing 27 people. * June 10 – United States – An open truck carrying 49
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and leaders stalls while climbing a hill en route to
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,
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. It loses its brakes and plunges into Carcass Wash, killing 13 people. * September 17 – United States –
Chualar bus crash The Chualar bus crash took place on September 17, 1963, when a freight train collided with a makeshift "bus"— a flatbed truck with two long benches and a canopy— carrying 58 migrant farmworkers on a railroad crossing outside Chualar in t ...
. In the worst auto accident in U.S. history, a train hit a flatbed truck used as a bus at a rail crossing in
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, killing 32 people and injuring 25.


1965

* January 1 – Peru – A
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regular route bus plunges into a ravine of the
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, killing 31 people. * January 10 – Mexico – A bus carrying soccer players and their families plunges into a ravine on the outskirts of
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,
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, killing 19 people and injuring 22.
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news agency
* February 3 – Mexico – A regular route bus plunges off a cliff along the Mexico- Ciudad Juárez expressway on the outskirts of
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, killing 25 people and injuring 40.
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news report
* February 10 – Egypt – A truck carrying 66 people plunged into a canal on the outskirts of El Ayyat, killing 36 people. The truck driver is arrested on suspicion of driving without a license. * February 18 – Italy – A
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
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Salerno Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...
regular route bus plunges into a ravine on the Naples- Pompeii expressway near
Mount Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius ( ; it, Vesuvio ; nap, 'O Vesuvio , also or ; la, Vesuvius , also , or ) is a somma- stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of ...
, killing 17 people and injuring 60. ANSA news agency * March 2 – Austria – 12 Swedish schoolchildren and 2 Finnish girls on winter sports holiday were killed when the bus they were traveling in was swept away in an avalanche in
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. * November 1 – Egypt – A crowded trolley bus plunges into the
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on the outskirts of
Dokki Dokki ( ar, الدقي  , is one of nine districts that make up Giza city, which is part of Greater Cairo, in Egypt. Dokki is situated on the western bank of the Nile, directly across from Downtown Cairo. It is a vital residential and comme ...
,
Giza Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9. ...
, killing 74 people. * December 6 – Togo – Two trucks carrying
United Nations peacekeeping Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role held by the Department of Peace Operations as an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace". It is distinguished ...
workers collide in
Sotouboua Sotouboua is a town located in Sotouboua Prefecture in the Centrale Region of Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the e ...
. Togolese authorities claim 125 people were killed.


1966

* July 25 – West Germany – A bus carrying Belgian children on vacation plunges off an
Autobahn The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'. ...
bridge and crashes on its roof. 33 people were killed, including 27 children and the driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Only 4 people survived. * October 7 – Canada – Dorion level crossing crash. 19 people were killed when a school bus was hit by a
CN Rail The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN i ...
freight train in
Vaudreuil-Dorion Vaudreuil-Dorion () is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipalit ...
,
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...
.


1967

* December 15 – United States – The
Silver Bridge The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio. On De ...
linking
Point Pleasant, West Virginia Point Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,101 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Point Pleasant, ...
, and
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, collapses into the Ohio River under heavy traffic, killing 46 people.


1968

* August 18 – Japan – Hidagawa bus crash. During intense rain, two charter buses crash into the
Hida River The has its source in Mount Norikura (乗鞍岳 ''Norikura-ga-take'') 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 communiti ...
on national highway route 41 in
Gero Gero I ( – 20 May 965), sometimes called the Great ( la, magnus),Thompson, 486. Also se was a German nobleman who ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg in the south of the present German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which he expande ...
,
Gifu Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture ...
, killing 104 people.


1969

* June 6 – Philippines – A regular route bus navigating a sharp descending curve on a narrow mountain road near Baler, Quezon, plunged into a ravine and burst into flames. 40 people were killed and 32 were injured.
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news report
* June 21 – Syria – An overcrowded vehicle carrying 35 workers crashed at
Maharda Maharda ( ar, محردة, Maḥarda, ), also spelled Mhardeh or Muhardah, is a city in northern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located about 23 kilometers northwest of Hama. It is situated along the Orontes River, near the ...
, Al-Amam, killing 25 people.
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* July 18 – United States –
Chappaquiddick incident The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts some time around midnight between July 18 and 19, 1969, when Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy negligently drove his car off a narrow bridge, causing it to overturn ...
.
Mary Jo Kopechne Mary Jo Kopechne (; July 26, 1940 – July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the " Boiler Room Girls". In 1969, she ...
was killed when a car driven by
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Ted Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...
crashed off the Dike Bridge on
Chappaquiddick Island Chappaquiddick Island (Massachusett language: ''tchepi-aquidenet''; colloquially known as "Chappy"), a part of the town of Edgartown, Massachusetts, is a small peninsula and occasional island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. Norton Poi ...
, Massachusetts. A
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ensued.


1970s


1970

* September 27 – South Korea – A regular route bus plunged off a mountain cliff on the outskirts of Myongju,
South Gyeongsang Province South Gyeongsang Province ( ko, 경상남도, translit=Gyeongsangnam-do, ) is a province in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is at Changwon. It is adjacent to the major metropolitan center and port of Busan. The UNESCO World H ...
, killing 15 people and injuring 20.
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report
* November 22 – Argentina – A bus plunged into a creek on the outskirts of
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, killing 56 people and leaving 4 survivors.
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television news report


1971

* May 10 – South Korea – At least 75 people drowned when a bus carrying nearly 90 passengers plunged into a reservoir near
Cheongpyeong Cheongpyeong is a small town about 1 hour east of Seoul, South Korea, in Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi Province. It has a population of approximately 20,000. It is serviced by 3 schools: an elementary, middle and high school. It is a popular destina ...
. * September 17 – Spain – In
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 ...
a truck carrying three tons of bricks crashed into a French Coach bus, killing 18, including 17 Quebecer tourists.


1972

* March 22 – United States – Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident. Five
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students were killed and 44 injured when a
Penn Central The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976. Penn Central combined three traditional corporate rivals (the Pennsylvania, New York Central and th ...
train hit a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident caused the
State of New York New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. stat ...
to require school vehicles to stop at all railroad crossings. * May 13 – United States – Bean Station bus-truck collision. 14 people were killed in a head-on collision between a double-decker
Greyhound The English Greyhound, or simply the Greyhound, is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing, greyhound racing and hunting. Since the rise in large-scale adoption of retired racing Greyhounds, the breed has seen a resurgen ...
bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W near
Bean Station, Tennessee Bean Station is a town in Grainger and Hawkins counties in the state of Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,967. Established in 1776 as a frontier outpost by William Bean, it is considered one of the earlie ...
. One of the deadliest crashes in Tennessee history, it led to the completion of
Interstate 81 Interstate 81 (I-81) is a north–south (physically northeast–southwest) Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States. Its southern terminus is at I-40 in Dandridge, Tennessee; its northern terminus is on Wellesley Island ...
and the widening of many highways in the state from two lanes to four. * June 25 – Spain – A bus carrying soccer fans home from a game plunged into a ravine near Cáceres, killing 22 and injuring 34. * August 25 – Netherlands – Many cars and trucks collided in sudden dense fog on the A16 motorway near Prinsenbeek, killing 13. A fog warning system was installed after this crash, however a similar crash occurred 18 years later. * September 23 – Japan – An
Akakura ''Metrosideros carminea'' (Carmine rātā, Crimson rātā or in Māori akakura) is a forest liane or vine that is endemic to New Zealand. It occurs in coastal and lowland forest from Te Paki in the north of the North Island south to Māhia Penin ...
- Togakushi regular route bus carrying 82 passengers plunged from a single-lane road into a ravine in Shinano, Nagano. 15 people were killed and 67 were injured.


1973

* July 18 – France – A bus carrying Belgian tourists plunged into a ravine in
Vizille Vizille (; frp, Veselye) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Population Sights Vizille is the home of the Musée de la Révolution française, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the Frenc ...
, killing 43 people. * September 26 – Australia – A tourist bus carrying pensioners on a sightseeing trip plunged over the Tumut Pond Dam, killing 15 and injuring 23. * November 4 – United States – A bus carrying gamblers to
Reno, Nevada Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the c ...
crashed into a pillar five miles north of
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, killing 13 and injuring 31. * November 20 – Mexico – An overcrowded bus carrying religious pilgrims skidded off a road and plunged into a ravine 50 miles southwest of Mexico City, killing at least 15 and injuring 43. A further 10 were reported missing. Most of the passengers were children.


1974

* January 15 – United States – Blythe, California bus crash. A bus carrying farm laborers missed a ninety-degree turn on an intersection and fell into a drainage canal near
Blythe, California Blythe is a city in eastern Riverside County, California, United States. It is in the Palo Verde Valley of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River, approximately ...
, killing 19. * July 28 – Brazil – A crowded bus and a truck collided near
Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in ...
, killing 69 people. * July 30 – United States – A 1972 Oldsmobile station wagon, occupied by four children and four adults, collided with a Soo Line freight train at the Fibre Crossing, which did not have lights or gates installed. All eight were killed.


1975

* January 1 – Japan – A charter bus carrying 62 passengers plunged into Aoki Lake, Ōmachi, Nagano, killing 24 people. * April 2 – France – A bus carrying religious pilgrims suffered a brake failure and plunged off a bridge near
Vizille Vizille (; frp, Veselye) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Population Sights Vizille is the home of the Musée de la Révolution française, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the Frenc ...
, killing 27 and injuring 16. * May 27 – United Kingdom – Dibbles Bridge coach crash. A bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge near Hebden,
North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by national parks, including most of the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. It is one of four cou ...
, killing 32 people and injuring 13. * June 15 – Austria – A tour bus carrying pensioners suffered a brake failure and went over an embankment into a ravine near
Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the ...
, killing 21 and injuring 23 in Austria's worst bus disaster.


1976

* February 16 – Sweden – The worst traffic accident in Sweden occurred outside Axamo,
Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat of Jönköping Munici ...
. Overheated tires caused a bus fire, killing 15 and injuring 28. * May 21 – United States – Yuba City bus disaster. A bus carrying the
Yuba City High School Yuba City High School is a public secondary school in Yuba City, California. It had roughly 3,000 students before River Valley High School opened in 2005. The school colors are brown and gold. Its mascot is the "Honker", a nickname for Cana ...
a cappella choir fell off Interstate 680 in
California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...
, killing 28 students and a teacher. This was the second deadliest bus crash in U.S. history, after the 1963 Chualar bus crash. * August 22 – Brazil – Former president
Juscelino Kubitschek Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosp ...
was killed when his car crashed into a truck on the Dutra Highway. His driver was also killed. * December 21 – France – A school bus carrying mentally handicapped children returning from the
Édouard Séguin Édouard Séguin (January 20, 1812 – October 28, 1880) was a French physician and educationist born in Clamecy, Nièvre. He is remembered for his work with children having cognitive impairments in France and the United States. Background and c ...
Children Medical Center plunged into the River
Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ...
on the outskirts of
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of ...
, killing at least 13 people.


1977

* June 9 – Russia – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown
Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
bus stop, killing eight people and injuring 18.Oberg, James E. ''Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost.'' New York: Random House, 1988: 106. * August 11 – Japan – A charter bus plunged into a ravine at Nagatoro bridge,
Kōfu is the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 187,985 in 90,924 households, and a population density of 880 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Overview Toponymy Kōfu's name means "c ...
,
Yamanashi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 (1 January 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the n ...
, killing 11 people and injuring 39.


1978

* January 22 – Poland – . Soviet Army truck loaded with parts of a pontoon bridge collided with crowded bus, killing 15 people and injuring 14. *July 11 – Spain – Los Alfaques disaster. In
La Ràpita 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 Ebro Delta, including el Trabucador isthmus and la Banya peninsula, which close off a salt water lagoon known as the ...
, a
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containing 45 m³ of liquefied propylene left the road and veered into the Los Alfaques camping site after colliding with a building. The resulting
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was more than 100 meters in diameter and killed at least 215 people (some sources speak of 216 or even 270), and injured 200. * August 4 – Canada – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunged into a lake in Eastman, Quebec, killing 40 people. Only seven people survived. * November 15 – Poland – . Two buses with miners going to work plunged into the river Jezioro Żywieckie near
Żywiec Żywiec () (german: Saybusch) is a town in southern Poland with 31,194 inhabitants (2019). Between 1975 and 1998, it was located within the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship, but has since become part of the Silesian Voivodeship.It is the capital of � ...
, killing 33 people. * December 21 – Spain – A school bus was struck by a locomotive on a level crossing near
Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Her ...
, killing 28 and injuring 36.


1979

* April 10 – Spain – A bus carrying pupils from a trip to
Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...
and Toledo plunged into a river near Benavente, killing 50 of the 60 people aboard. * June 2 – South Korea – A bus collided with a truck and plunged into a river near Sarnchok, killing around 20 and injuring 20. * August 16 – Yugoslavia – A bus collided with a truck and plunged into a river near
Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the P ...
killing 14 and injuring 40.


1980s


1980

* March 3 – Belarus – A city bus 62 caught fire in
Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative stat ...
after driving into a pool of gasoline spilled from a fuel truck, burning 23 people to death. * May 9 – United States – Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster. In
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, a cargo ship collided with a bridge
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, demolishing over 1200 ft. of the bridge and killing 35 people. * June 5 – United States – A tour bus rolled off the highway near Jasper, Arkansas, killing 22 people and injuring 19. * June 29 – Pakistan – A bus carrying more than 100 women and children plunged into a canal in Upper Jhelam, near
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,
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, and at least 90 people drowned as a result. * June 29 – Romania – Huțani bus accident. A bus carrying 83 people went off a bridge and overturned into a deep marsh near Huțani, a village in Vlădeni, Botoșani, killing 48 people and injuring 35.


1981

* April 26 – Mexico – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck near
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killed 30 people and injured 10 to 15. * May 22 – Mexico – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in
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province killed 33 people. * September 29 – Spain – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in
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killed at least 25 people. * November 28 – Chile – A collision between a bus and a truck 200 miles south of
Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, who ...
on the
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killed 32 and injured 10.


1982

* January 31 – Chile – Two buses collide and plunge into a
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on the outskirts of Santiago, killing 14 people and injuring 70. * April 20 – Egypt – A bus carrying Greek tourists to visit the
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crashed near
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in the
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, killing 18 and injuring 27. * August 1 – France – Beaune coach crash. Two buses carrying children collided with cars and burst into flames in
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, killing 53 people, including 44 children in the worst highway crash in France. * August 12 – Mexico - Boxer
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was killed when his
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crashed into a truck along the federal highway from
Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities. Its capi ...
to San Luis Potosí. * September 12 – Switzerland – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near
Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () i ...
, killing 39 people. The barriers were not closed, because the operator pressed a wrong button. Only two passengers survived the crash. It was the worst road crash in Switzerland to date. * September 13 – Monaco – Death of Grace Kelly. Grace, Princess of Monaco drove her
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off of a serpentine roadway and down a mountainside after suffering a stroke. She died in hospital the next day. * September 19 – Australia – A bus carrying students from Merredin College returning from a football game in
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ran off the road and struck a tree, killing 10 and injuring eight. * November 3 – Afghanistan –
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– Hundreds were killed in a tunnel fire after a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as great as 2,700 dead.


1983

* January 19 – United States – A
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crashed into a mainline toll booth on the
Connecticut Turnpike The Connecticut Turnpike (officially the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike) is a controlled-access highway and former toll road in the U.S. state of Connecticut; it is maintained by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT). Span ...
in
Stratford, Connecticut Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is situated on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. Stratford is in the Bridgeport–Stamford–Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was settled b ...
, after brake failure, killing six people and injuring four. * February 11 – Greece – A Greek Railways bus carrying passengers from
Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
to
Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh List ...
was involved with a head-on collision with a truck 80 miles northwest of Athens killing 17 and injuring 10. * April 26 – Italy – A bus carrying students from
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
to
Lake Garda Lake Garda ( it, Lago di Garda or ; lmo, label= Eastern Lombard, Lach de Garda; vec, Ƚago de Garda; la, Benacus; grc, Βήνακος) is the largest lake in Italy. It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, about halfway between ...
collided with a trailer-truck in a highway tunnel just south of
Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
, killing 12 and injuring 35. * May 24 – Italy – A bus carrying elderly pilgrims from the city of
Monza Monza (, ; lmo, label= Lombard, Monça, locally ; lat, Modoetia) is a city and ''comune'' on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of M ...
skidded off a highway and fell into a ravine near
Tignale Tignale (locally ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is an international tourist center on the Lake Garda Lake Garda ( it, Lago di Garda or ; lmo, label= Eastern Lombard, Lach de Garda; vec, Ƚa ...
, killing all 14 occupants. * September 14 – Austria – A bus carrying Hungarian tourists plunged off a mountain road near
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, killing 13 people and injuring 33. * November 1 – Thailand – A bus collided with a
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and hit a second bus northeast of
Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populatio ...
, killing 21 people and injuring 40. * December 18 – Italy – A bus carrying sailors from Aulla to
Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...
to watch a soccer match between A.C. Milan and
Juventus F.C. Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...
skidded off an overpass near
Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of t ...
, killing 34 and injuring four.


1984

* June 11 – Venezuela – A bus carrying military cadets crashed into a bridge and caught fire, killing 33 people and injuring eight. * September 24 – India – A bus plunges into a gorge in
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, killing 42 people and injuring 15. * December 24 – South Africa – A bus carrying contract workers from
Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second larges ...
crashed near
Cradock, Eastern Cape Cradock is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, by road northeast of Port Elizabeth. The town is the administrative seat of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in the Chris Han ...
killing 42 and injuring 25.


1985

* January 12 – South Korea – A bus going from Muju County to
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plunged into an icy river near
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, killing 40 of the 41 people on board. Passenger Kang Yu-il was the only survivor. * January 27 – Japan – A bus carrying students and professors from Japan Welfare University skidded off a road near Nagano and plunged into a dam, killing 25 and injuring eight. * February 11 – Germany – Langenbruck bus crash. A bus carrying members of the
Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...
band collided with a fuel tanker near Langenbruck, killing 21 and injuring 22. * March 27 – South Africa –
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 driver of the bus was Coloured (mixed-race individual) and the passengers were all white, which caused some cont ...
– A school bus crashed through a barrier in Westdene,
Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...
, and plunged into a dam, killing 42 school children. * June 11 – Israel – A bus carrying school children on a field trip collided with a train near
Moshav A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 ...
Habonim, killing 21 people, including 19 children. * September 22 – Pakistan – A school bus rolls over in
Layyah Layyah ( Saraiki and ur, ), previously spelled as Leiah, is a city in the Pakistan.M6 motorway The M6 motorway is the longest motorway in the United Kingdom. It is located entirely within England, running for just over from the Midlands to the border with Scotland. It begins at Junction 19 of the M1 motorway, M1 and the western end of t ...
in Lancashire, between
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and
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, killing 13 people. * November 5 – Italy – A bus carrying mostly students and workers from Leonforte to Catania skidded off a bridge, killing 15 and injuring six.


1986

* May 23 –
Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...
– A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in
Antique Province Antique, officially the Province of Antique (; krj, Probinsya kang Antique; hil, Probinsya sang Antique; tl, Probinsya ng Antique), is a province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is San Jose de Buenavista, ...
, killing 23 people and injuring 15. * May 30 – United States – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River near Walker, Mono County, California, killing 21 people and injuring 19. * July 26 – United Kingdom – 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. * September 27 – Sweden –
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's bus skids off the road, killing Cliff Burton.


1987

* March 29 – China – A bus plunges off a cliff in
Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ning ...
, killing 19 people and injuring 28. * July 3 – Spain – A bus carrying elderly vacationers skidded off a highway and fell into a ravine near
Ourense Ourense (; es, Orense ) is a city and capital of the province of Ourense, located in the autonomous community of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path of the Way of St James ( Camino de Santiago), and is crossed by t ...
, killing 34 and injuring 11. * July 4 – Portugal – A bus carrying tourists skidded into a house near
Covilhã Covilhã () is a city and a municipality in the Centro region, Portugal. The city proper had 34,772 inhabitants in 2001. The municipality population in 2011 was 51,797, in an area of . It is located in the Beiras e Serra da Estrela subregion and ...
, killing 15 and injuring at least 30. * November 17 – Spain – A bus carrying workers to
Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...
overturned near Toledo, killing at least 10 and injuring 37. * December 11 – Egypt – A bus carrying local primary school children returning from the
Giza Zoo The Giza Zoo ( arz, حَدِيْقَة حَيْوَان ٱلْجِيْزَة, Ḥadīqat Ḥaywān Al-Gīzah) is a zoological garden in Giza, Egypt. It is one of the few green areas in the city, and includes Giza's largest park. The zoo covers ...
was smashed by a fast-speed train at an unmarked railroad level crossing at Ein Sham, on the outskirts of
Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...
, killing 62 children and injuring 67.


1988

* March 25 – Spain – An express train hit a nursery bus near
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,
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, killing 15, including 12 children. * April 1 – South Korea – A bus plunged into the Hangang river in
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after a tire blew out, killing 18 and injuring 36. * May 14 – United States – Carrollton bus collision. 27 people die near
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, after a collision with a
drunk driver Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English) is the act of driving under the influence of Alcohol (drug), alcohol. A small increase in the blood alcohol content increases the relative risk of a motor vehicle crash. In the United States, ...
driving the wrong way on
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. It remains the deadliest drunk driving crash in American history. * August 12 – Iran – Two buses collide on the highway between
Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...
and
Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quru River valley in Iran's historic Azerbaijan region between long ridges of vo ...
in northern Iran, killing 30 people and injuring 50. * August 15 – Norway – Måbødalen bus accident. 16 people, including 12 children, die when a bus rams into a concrete wall in a tunnel east of
Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...
. * February 21 – India – A bus falls into a ravine near
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, killing 35 people. * October 12 – China – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in
Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ning ...
, killing 43 people and injuring 40. * December 23 – United States – Memphis tanker truck disaster. A
tank truck A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars, which are also desig ...
hauling liquefied
propane Propane () is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula . It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, but compressible to a transportable liquid. A by-product of natural gas processing and petroleum refining, it is commonly used as ...
crashed in
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, killing 9, injuring 10, and starting multiple vehicle and structure fires.


1989

* July 16 – Japan – A landslide caused by intense rain collapsed a tunnel in
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, striking a minibus and killing 15 people. * September 21 – United States –
Alton, Texas bus crash A school bus crash occurring on September 21, 1989 in Alton, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley region, resulted in the deaths of 21 junior and senior high school students by drowning or causes related to being asphyxiated. A bottling truck collided ...
– A truck hit a school bus in
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, and the bus fell into a
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pit filled with water killing 21 students. * September 22 – Yugoslavia – At the
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in Pojatno, a passenger train on the
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-
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route, travelling at a speed of 80 kph (49.7 mph) ran into one of three buses. They were carrying 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students from the
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"Ante Kovačić" from Marija Gorica on an excursion to
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. As a result of the accident, 14 students died. * October 8 – Canada – Cormier-Village Hayride Accident. 13 people were killed and 30 were injured near
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when a transport truck carrying logs spilled its cargo while passing a loaded hayride. * October 20 – Australia –
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. This crash was one of several on the Pacific Highway involving buses during a relatively brief period. At the time, ...
– A Sydney-
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Sunliner Coaches tourist bus collided head-on with a tractor trailer truck near
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, killing 21 people and injuring 22. * December 22 – Australia – Kempsey bus crash. 35 people were killed on the Pacific Highway near
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when two Denning Leedster coaches collided head-on.


1990s


1990

* March 20 – United States – Whilst on tour, a semi trailer rammed into a
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containing singer
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, husband Emilio, their son and three other passengers in
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, severely injuring Gloria. Following extensive surgery, she returned to an international tour ten months after the crash. * April 22 – Cuba – Two buses collided in
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, killing 11 people and injuring 13. * June 3 – France –
Joigny coach crash The Joigny coach crash was a single-vehicle accident that occurred on the A6 autoroute in Joigny, Yonne, France, on 3 June 1990, when a British-registered double-decker coach crashed. In an attempt to make up for lost time, it was travelling in ...
. A
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based double-decker coach bus suffered a blowout of the front tyre on the autoroute A6 near
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when it was 20 mph in excess of the speed limit. This caused it to crash, killing 11 people and injuring 61 British tourists, all returning from
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. This resulted in a legal action against
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, manufacturer of the tyre of the crash coach, its driver and his employer; resulting in the longest legal case in France. * July 8 – Soviet Union – A bus ignored a barrier at a railroad crossing and collided with a passenger train near
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,
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,
Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
, killing 27 people (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. * September 24 – Thailand – A truck carrying two unsecured 20,000-liter liquefied petroleum gas tanks overturned on New Phetchaburi Road, downtown
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. The explosions and resulting fires consumed 43 vehicles and many buildings in the area, killing 59 people and injuring 89. * November 4 – South Korea – A bus carrying classmates of former President
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crashed into a reservoir near
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after colliding with a truck, killing at least 21 people and injuring 20. * November 5 – Italy – A bus carrying elderly vacationers from
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to
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skidded off a bridge near
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, killing 30 occupants and injuring many others. * November 9 – Netherlands – In sudden dense fog on the A16 motorway west of
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, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 people were killed and 28 injured. * December 11 – United States – Interstate 75 fog disaster. A 99 car pile-up due to fog on
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near
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resulted in 12 deaths and 42 injuries.


1991

* February 15 – Thailand – A trailer truck carrying dynamite explodes at Thung Maphrao,
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killing 171 local villagers. * March 13 – United Kingdom – M4 motorway crash. 10 people died in a 45 vehicle pile up in foggy conditions on the
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near
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. * July 31 – United States – A bus carrying about 60 Girl Scouts overturned on a desert mountain road near California Highway 111, not far from
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, killing 7 people. * August 4 – Zimbabwe – Nyanga bus accident. A crowded bus carrying school children from Regina Coeli Mission in Nyanga loses control and crashes in Troutbeck, Manicaland, killing 91 people, including 82 children. * August 7 – Austria – The brakes of a Hungarian tourist bus fail in
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, killing 15 people and injuring 28. * November 29 – United States – Interstate 5 dust storm. A dust storm on
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near
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triggers a 164-vehicle pile up that leaves 17 people dead and 150 injured.


1992

* August 19 – Spain – A bus carrying visitors from
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to
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falls down an embankment on the A7 highway near
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, killing 45 and injuring 11. * September 6 – Germany – Near
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in the
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, a bus collides into a passenger car and is slit open by a
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, killing 21 people and injuring 32.


1993

* January 4 – Mexico – A tour bus carrying mostly American tourists from
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to
Chichen Itza Chichen Itza , es, Chichén Itzá , often with the emphasis reversed in English to ; from yua, Chiʼchʼèen Ìitshaʼ () "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people" was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Termi ...
crashed into a utility pole and caught fire, killing at least 24 passengers and injuring 23. * January 9 – Argentina – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in
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, killing 55 people and injuring 70. * April 7 – Bulgaria – At least 29 people were killed and 18 injured when a Turkish coach fell from a bridge into the
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near Byala, after colliding with a lorry. Another heavy Turkish lorry slammed into a crane set up on the bridge to lift the wreckage out of the water. * July 17 – Canada – A minibus carrying senior citizens from Verchères,
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on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anthony of Padua near La Bouchette collided with a pick-up truck near Lac Saint-Jean, killing 19 people. * November 10 – France – A pile-up on autoroute A10 autoroute, A10 near Mirambeau, Charente-Maritime, Mirambeau leaves 15 people dead and 53 injured. * November 10 – United Kingdom – A bus carrying Canadian and American tourists collided with a van and skidded off the M2 Motorway near Faversham killing 10 and injuring 36. * November 17 – United Kingdom – M40 minibus crash. A crash left 12 children dead when their minibus collided with a maintenance vehicle near Warwick, England, causing new road security campaigns.


1994

* January 9 - Indonesia – A bus carrying French tourists on the island of Bali plunged into a ravine after trying to avoid another vehicle, killing 10 people and injuring 19. * May 2 – Poland – Poland bus disaster of 1994. 32 people died in a collision between a Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej, PKS transport agency bus and a tree near Gdańsk.


1995

* January 3 - Philippines – An overloaded bus missed a bridge and fell off a ravine in Echague, Isabela, killing at least 31 people and injuring 36. * March 12 – India – A truck carrying benzene rammed a bus outside Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, killing 110 people. * May 22 – United Kingdom – A bus carrying veterans from Christchurch, Dorset, Christchurch on a day trip to a brewery in Cardiff veered off the
M4 motorway The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is a motorway in the United Kingdom running from west London to southwest Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh element was largely ...
and plunged into a river near Bristol, killing 10 and injuring 20. * June 16 – Spain – A bus carrying pensioners collided with a truck and a car near
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, killing 11 people and injuring 25. * July 10 – France – A bus carrying mostly Spanish students from Amsterdam to
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slammed into a road barrier near Roquemaure, Gard, killing 22 people and injuring 31. * October 25 – United States – 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision, Fox River Grove bus–train collision. A train collided with a school bus at a grade crossing in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing 7 children and injuring 21.


1996

* February 10 – Japan – A huge shard of rock weighing about 21,000 tons smashed through Toyohama tunnel, national highway route 229, Yoichi, Hokkaido, crushing a Shakotan, Hokkaido, Shakotan-Otaru regular route bus and a car, killing 20 people. * February 25 – Bolivia – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, killing at least 35 people. * February 28 – Spain – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailén, Bailen, killing 29 people and injuring 17. * September 29 – Japan – A minivan carrying construction workers crashed on national highway route 9, Muraoka, Hyōgo, killing 10 people.


1997

* January 14 – Egypt – A crowded city bus plunged into the
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in
Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...
, killing 39 people and injuring 24. * January 19 – India – A bus plunged into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab (India), Punjab, killing 29 people and injuring 12. * March 10 – United Kingdom – 1997 M42 motorway crash, M42 motorway crash. 3 people were killed and 60 injured in a 160 vehicle collision on the M42 motorway due to fog. * May 8 – India – 70 people heading to a wedding were killed when a truck plunged into a gorge in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. * July 15 – Spain – A bus carrying Japanese tourists crashed into another vehicle and caught fire near Toledo, killing 10 and injuring four. * August 31 – France – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana, Princess of Wales died from injuries she sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris. Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul were also killed in the crash, with Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard), Trevor Rees-Jones being severely injured. * October 13 – Canada – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident, Les Éboulements bus accident. In
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, 44 people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine, the worst bus crash in Canadian history. * November 6 – Cuba – A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province, killing at least 56 people. * November 27 – India – At least 34 people drowned when their bus fell into a canal in Karnataka. * December 8 – Rwanda – 22 people were killed when a lorry collided with a minibus.


1998

* January 2 – India – Six people were killed and two others were seriously injured when a bus and a jeep collided in Rajasthan. * January 5 – Zimbabwe – 43 people were killed and more than 60 seriously injured when a bus plunged down a steep slope in Nyanga, Zimbabwe, Nyanga after the brakes failed. * January 7 – Kenya – A Meru, Kenya, Meru-Nairobi Kenyan Bus Service regular route bus lost control of the vehicle and plummeted down embankment into Nithi river, killing 58 people and injuring 42. * February 28 – India – 20 people died and 41 were injured when a school bus collided with a city bus at Ariapatti Vilakku, near Valandu in Tamil Nadu. * March 9 – Saudi Arabia – At least 16 people were killed and six missing after their bus plunged into a flooded river. * April 15 – South Africa – A school bus was involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, killing 31 people, including 27 children. * April 26 – Spain – At least 10 people were killed in bus crash in Province of Alicante. * May 5 – Tanzania – At least 72 people drowned when the bus they were travelling in was swept into a river in Tanga Region. * July 15 – India – At least 45 people were killed when a bus plunged into a river in Arunachal Pradesh. * July 26 – South Africa – At least 19 people were killed and 60 injured near Zeerust when a bus collided with a truck on a sharp bend and overturned. * August 12 – Montenegro – A bus crashed down a ravine and killed at least 18 people. * August 26 – India – At least 17 people were killed when a bus hit a tractor trailer in
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. * August 30 – Nepal – At least 21 people were killed when a bus they were travelling in left the road and crashed down a hillside. * September 8 – Brazil – A tanker truck flipped and exploded on a highway north of São Paulo, setting fire to two buses and killing at least 50 people. * September 20 – Turkmenistan – About 40 people were killed in a bus-train collision. * September 27 – Peru – At least 23 people died and 18 were injured when a bus fell off a cliff near the southern town of Mayoc. * November 11 – India – At least 40 people were killed when a bus plunged down a mountain gorge in Arunachal Pradesh. * December 14 – India – At least 19 people were killed and 35 were injured when a bus fell into a gorge in the Pithoragarh district. * December 23 – South Africa – At least 21 people killed when a bus collided with a large truck. * December 25 – India – At least 19 people were killed in Andhra Pradesh when a bus crashed into a train. * December 31 – United States – 100 cars crashed on an ice-slicked section of
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in central Michigan, killing one and injuring 39.


1999

* January 9 – Georgia – A bus carrying funeral mourners ran off the road and plunged into a river below an outskirt of Stepantsminda, Khevi, killing 38 people. * January 21 – Philippines – At least 22 were killed when a bus fell into a ravine near Baguio. * January 24 – Austria – 1999 Deutschlandsberg bus crash, Deutschlandsberg bus crash. A bus carrying Hungarian skiers plunged off a hillside on the outskirts of Deutschlandsberg,
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, killing 18 people and injuring 32. * January 31 – South Africa – At least 31 people were killed in KwaZulu-Natal when a bus plunged off a bridge between Kokstad and Johannesburg. * February 26 – Sweden – A minibus east of Karlskoga got stuck on a truck, was dragged along the road and caught fire. Seven children and two teachers were killed. * March 15 – United States – 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash, Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash. A City of New Orleans (train), City of New Orleans train collided with a truck and derailed in Bourbonnais, Illinois, killing 11 people. * March 24 – France and Italy – Mont Blanc tunnel fire. 39 people were killed in a tunnel fire between France and Italy. * April 30 – Greece – A small vehicle collided with a stopped tanker truck loaded with propane and started a fire near Kamena Vourla, Kamena Vourla, Fthiotis. A huge explosion followed several minutes later killing five people and injuring 14. * May 9 – United States – A tour bus crashed into a concrete wall on Interstate 610 (Louisiana), Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing 22 people and injuring 24. * May 29 – Austria – 12 people were killed and 50 were injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Road Tunnel#1999 fire, Tauern Tunnel. * June 6 – Kenya – At least eight people died after a bus burst a tyre and overturned in Naivasha on the main Nairobi to Nakuru highway. In another crash 12 were killed when a bus collided with another vehicle. * June 8 – India – At least 94 people were killed, including 11 children, after a bus plunged into a lake in Karnataka. * July 18 – India – A Kiari-
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HRTC regular route bus carrying 90 passengers plunged into a deep gorge on the outskirts of Baghar, Himachal Pradesh, killing 18 people and injuring 55. * July 24 – Canada – A trailer truck crashed into cars slowed by Roadworks, roadwork on Quebec Autoroute 20 near Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing four people and injuring 11. A public investigation is launched. * September 3 – Canada – 1999 Ontario Highway 401 crash, Ontario Highway 401 crash. Dense fog on Ontario Highway 401, Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario reduced visibility to less than a meter and caused an 87-vehicle pileup and fire that killed eight people and injured 33. Many vehicles were fused together by the intense heat. * September 16 – Peru – Two road crashes involving buses killed at least 16 people and injured 48 others. * September 19 – Spain – At least 20 people died in a bus crash near Zaragoza. * September 22 – South Africa – At least 11 people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck. * September 28 – South Africa – A bus carrying British tourists crashed near Lydenburg after its brakes failed, killing 29 and injuring seven. * October 4 – South Africa – At least 19 people were killed and 47 seriously injured after a bus crashed down a river embankment. * October 5 – Indonesia – At least 45 people were killed in a bus crash in West Java between Jakarta and Bandung. * October 9 – Israel – A tourbus in Galilee hit a slick spot on the road, rolled downhill and killed 17 people. * October 25 – India – A bus swerved to avoid hitting a cow and skidded off a mountain road into a deep gorge, killing 27 people and injuring 47 on the way home from a temple in Hoshiarpur district, northeast of Amritsar. * November 7 – India – At least 50 people were killed in a bus crash in Jammu and Kashmir (state), Jammu and Kashmir.


See also

*List of bridge failures *List of level crossing accidents *Lists of rail accidents includes
level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass An overpass (called ...
crashes *Multiple-vehicle collision


References


External links


Early Auto Accidents
Photos of Auto Accidents from the 1920s to 1950s


Descansos.org :: Project to create awareness of victims of vehicular fatalities.


{{DEFAULTSORT:List of traffic collisions Lists of road transport incidents Traffic collisions, * 20th-century road incidents, *