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List of road accidentsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
You can help by expanding it (//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=List_of_road_accidents&action=edit) with reliably sourced entries.
List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those that have a large death toll, occurred in unusualcircumstances, or have some other historical significance. For crashes that killed famous people, refer to List ofpeople who died in road accidents. The prevalence of bus accidents in this list is a function of severity rather than offrequency.
See List of road accidents 2000–2009 and List of road accidents 2010–2019
Notable historic road accidents
1950s: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s: 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
See also — External links — References
1700s
1771 France – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot'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[1] 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 car,
Mary Ward was thrown from the car and fell under the wheels as it rounded a bend. This is believed to be
the first recorded automobile death. The car was built by her cousins, the sons of William Parsons, 3rd Earl
of Rosse.[2]
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 theCrystal 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.[3]
25 February 1899 UK – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer are thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on
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A Typical Cable 'Accident' on
Broadway.", ca. 08/29/1895
the Hill, Middlesex, London, and killed. Sewell's death is the firstfatality of a driver recorded.
13 September 1899 – Henry H. Bliss is the first person killed
by a car in the United States.
1930s
1934
July – A bus accident in Ossining, New York, claimed 20
lives.
1935
August 29 Belgium – Queen Astrid of Belgium is killed in a
car accident in Küssnacht am Rigi, near Lake Lucerne, Schwyz,
Switzerland.
1940s
1941
October UK – A Royal Air Force bus crashes into a lorry and catches fire near Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, killing 9 airmen and injuring 13.[4]
1944
June UK – A British Army lorry crashes into a house at Burley in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, killing 19
soldiers.[4]
October UK – A United States Army bus collides with a lorry near Marlborough, Wiltshire, killing 10
soldiers and injuring 21.[4]
1947
October UK – A bus crashes into a building at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, killing 9 people.[4]
1948
January UK – A bus skids into a bus queue at Bargeddie, near Glasgow, Scotland, killing 8 people and
injuring 12.[4]
December 19 Argentina – A commuter train hits a truck carrying hikers in the Greater Buenos Aires.
killed 44 and injured 25 others.
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1950s
1950
February 11 Japan – A Takase-Kumamoto Kyūshū Sanko regular route bus plunges into pond 40 feet
below at Matsuo, Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan, killing 22 people and injuring 18.[5]
UK (Scotland) May – A bus and a tram collide in Glasgow, killing 7 people and injuring 43.[4]
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.[5]
1951
July 15 Japan – A Shimokawai-Chubutenryu regular route bus plunges off the Harada bridge, Tenryū
River, Urakawa, Hokkaidō, northwestern Shizuoka Prefecture, killing 24.[5]
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 MarinesVolunteer Cadet Corps, aged between ten and thirteen years. 24 cadets were killed and 18 injured; at the time itwas the greatest loss of life of any road accident in British history. The crash was later ruled accidental.
[6]
1954
29 March. Argentina – The collision between a train and a bus in the city of Coronel Suarez, Buenos
Aires Province causing 22 dead and 4 injured. 29 September Netherlands – The brakes and gear box of a Belgian tourist bus fail on the downhill slope
of the Cauberg, 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.[7]
12 November, island of Reunion – The brakes of a bus fail on the downhill slope of Plateau-Caillou, in
Saint-Paul. 54 people are killed, 23 instantly.[8]
1958
28 February USA – Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster: A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hitsa 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.
22 December Greece –: A suburban bus from Ioannina to Chouliarades carrying 34 people (32passengers, 1 driver, 1 conductor) failed to complete a manoeuvre on the steep road near the village of
Petrovouni, Ioannina and subsequently fell down the 350m slope to Arachthos gorge. 29 people of which 7
minors perished in the accident.[9]
1959
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20 June Germany – A crowded bus collides with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen am Neckar, West
Germany killing 45 people, the worst bus accident in German history.[10]
1960s
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 Hiei, Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan, killing 30 people and injuring another 18.[5]
September 14 – A truck struck a suburban bus which subsequently crashed on an olive tree between
Athens and Korinth. The accident claimed 11 lives (10 passengers and the driver).[11]
1961
– December 14. 20 schoolchildren were killed in a bus-train collision two miles east and a mile south ofEvans, 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 by the train.[12]
1962
June 11. Argentina – The Villa Soldati level crossing tragedy occurred in the city of Buenos Aires when
a train struck a municipal bus carrying school children to kindergarten. 42 children die and another 83 areinjured.
1963
– February 7 – A bus in Northland Region, New Zealand leaves the road and hits a pole, killing 15
people. This is considered the worst road accident in New Zealand history.[13]
– April 7 Kenya – A bus returning from an African church meeting plunges into the Tiva River,
Mitaboni, Machakos, Kenya, killing at least 72 people.[14]
– June 10 USA – An open truck carrying 49 Boy Scouts and leaders stalls while climbing a hill en routeto Hole in the Rock, Utah, loses its brakes, and plunges into Carcass Wash (http://maps.google.com/maps?
f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=carcass+wash+utah&ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=37.336372,-111.071874
&spn=0.002222,0.004828&z=18&iwloc=A) , killing 13 people.[15]
1965
January 1 Peru - A Huancayo-Ayacucho regular route bus plunges 300 feet into a ravine of the
Mantaro River, Peru, killing 31 people.[16]
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.[17]
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.[18]
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.[19]
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Egypt, killing 36 people. The truck driver is arrested on suspicion of driving without a license.[19]
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.[20]
November 1 Egypt – A crowded trolley bus plunges into the Nile on the outskirts of Dokki, Giza,
Egypt, killing 74 people.[21]
December 6 Togo – Two trucks carrying United Nation Peace Keeping Force workers collide at
Sotouboua, Togo. Togolese authorities claim 125 people are killed.[22]
1966
25 July Germany – A bus carrying Belgian 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.[23]
October 7 Canada – Dorion level crossing accident: 19 people are killed when a schoolbus is hit by a
CN train in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec.
1967
September 13 Brazil – A bus falls from Almas Bridge, near Belo Horizonte, killing 14 people.
December 15 USA – Silver Bridge collapses under heavy traffic in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, killing
46 people.[24]
1968
January 6 UK – In the Hixon rail crash, a passenger train hits a low-loader transporter and derails killing
11 and injuring 45 in Hixon, Staffordshire, England.[25]
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.[5]
1969
June 6 Philippines – A regular route bus navigating a sharp descending curve on a narrow mountain road
near Baler, Aurora, Quezon, Philippines, plunges into a ravine and bursts into flames. 40 people are killed
and another 32 are injured.[26]
June 21 Syria – An overcrowded vehicle carrying 35 workers crashes at Mahradah, Al-Amam, killing
25 people.[27]
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.
1970s
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1970
September 27 South Korea – A regular route bus plunges off a mountain cliff on the outskirts of
Myongju, Gyeongsangnam-do, killing 15 people and injuring 20.[28]
November 22 Argentina – A bus plunges into a creek on the outskirts of Reconquista, Santa Fe
Province, killing 56 people and survive 4.[29]
1971
10 May South Korea – A crowded bus plunges off a 30-foot (9.1 m) cliff, crashing into a reservoir onthe 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
November 8 Thailand – A local bus collided head-on with a truck on the outskirts of Korat, Nakhon
Ratchasima, killing 27 people and injuring 20.[citation needed]
December 18 Egypt – A trailer truck carrying local workers plunged into an irrigation canal on the
outskirts of Aswan, killing 50 people.[citation needed]
1972
February 15 Philippines – A Batangas-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.[citation needed]
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.[30] 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.[5]
1973
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January 1 Chile – A bus carrying the Condor soccer club of Curicó players and fans skidded on anacute 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.[citation needed]
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.[31]
October 13 India – A regular route bus plunged off a bridge on the outskirts of Hazaribagh, Bihar,
India, killing 74 people.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
1974
28 July – A crowded bus and a truck collide near Belém, Brazil, killing 69 people.[31]
September 8 Argentina – A bus returning from religious pilgrimage ran off a road and plunged 750 feet
into a canyon on the outskirts of Salta Province, Argentina, killing 35 people.
1975
January 1 Japan – A charter bus carrying 62 passengers plunged 100 feet into Aoki Lake, Omachi,
Nagano, Japan, killing 24 people.[5]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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 13.[32]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
13 September – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Costa Rica, killing 48 people.
1976
March 10 – A regular route bus lost control due to brake failure and plunged down a mountain side in
central Escuintla, Guatemala, killing 38 people; another 14 are injured.[citation needed]
May 21 USA – Yuba City bus disaster A bus carrying the Yuba City High School a cappella choir falls
off Interstate route 680 in California, killing 28 students and a teacher. This is the deadliest road accident in
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off Interstate route 680 in California, killing 28 students and a teacher. This is the deadliest road accident in
United States history.[33]
August 22 Brazil – Former president Juscelino Kubitschek 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
November 15 – A bus swept by flash flood in Tsoaing River, Thaba Pechela, Mafeteng, Lesotho, killing
at least 90 people.[citation needed]
December 21 France – A school bus carrying mentally handicapped children returning from a class in
making Christmas ornaments at the Édouard Séguin Children Medical Center, plunged into the River Rhone,
on the outskirts of Lyon, France, with at least 13 people killed.[34]
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 Tanta, Nile Delta, Egypt, killing 19 people.[citation needed]
June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight people and
injuring 18.[35]
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 charterbus plunged 120 feet into a ravine at Nagatoro bridge, Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, killing 11
people; another 39 are injured.[5]
1978
January 1 Thailand – A truck carrying many passengers collided head-on with a bus on the outskirts of
Nong Bua Daeng, Chaiyaphum, Thailand, killing 25 people; another 86 are injured.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
January 22 Poland – A truck with steel elements collided with crowded bus of PKS (Polish Road
Transport) - killed 15 people and seriously injured 14.[36]
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.[citation needed]
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.[37]
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4 August Canada – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman,
Quebec, Canada killing 40 people. Only seven people survive.[38]
November 15 Poland – Two buses of PKS (Polish Road Transport) with miners going to work plunged
into the river Jezioro Żywieckie near Żywiec, killing 30 miners, one woman and two drivers.[39]
1979
January 15. Argentina – In the town of Castelli, Buenos Aires Province a serious collision occursbetween two bus passengers. Causing 33 dead and 54 wounded.
1980s
1980
February 12 Bulgaria – An Ohrid-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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[40]
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.[citation needed]
9 May USA – 35 people are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida, after acargo 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.[41]
June 10 Ireland; A bus crashes and overturns outside Limerick, Republic of Ireland killing two Peopleand 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.[citation needed]
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.[42]
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.[43]
July 4 Philippines – Two passenger buses collided head-on on National Highway Route 1, Camalig,
Albay, Philippines, killing 13 people and injuring 28.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
November 25 India – A Gwalior-Delhi Delhi Transport bus tumbled into the Chambal River, Dholpur,
Rajasthan, India, killing 40 people and injuring 30.[citation needed]
1981
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January 3 India – A passenger bus skidded and plunged 200-feet down into a ravine at outskirt of
Galhar, Indian state of Kashmir, killing 17 people and injuring 18.[citation needed]
February 12 Venezuela – A crowded bus, heavy truck, a small vehicle and many vehicles collide at
Barquisimeto, Venezuela, killing 36 people and injuring 31.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
June 14 Pakistan – A bus plunged 300-feet into a ravine at Kohat Pass, Kohat, Pakistan, killing 23
people and injuring 25.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
September 29 Spain – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Toledo province, Spain, kills at least
25 people.[44]
October 14 India – A public bus plunged into foothills at outskirt of Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India,
killing 40 people and injuring 45.[citation needed]
1982
January 21 Bangladesh – An overcrowded bus swerves to avoid a speeding truck and plunges nine
meters off a bridge at Narayanganj, Isa Khan, Bangladesh, killing at least 28 people; another 40 are
injured.[citation needed]
31 January Chile – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, killing
14 people and injuring 70.[45]
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.[citation needed]
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.[46]
September 9 – An express train collided with a bus at outskirt of Szekesfehervar, Fejér County,
Hungary, killing at least sixteen passengers.[citation needed]
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. It is the worst road accident in Switzerland to date.[47]
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.
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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.[citation needed]
December 26 – A passenger bus plunged into a river at Brahmanbari, Bangladesh, at least forty-five
people dead and eighty injured.[citation needed]
1983
January 19 USA – A semi-trailer truck crashed into a mainline toll booth on the Connecticut Turnpike in
Stratford, Connecticut, after brake failure, killing six people and injuring four.
[48]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
March 2 – A charter bus plunged off mountainous highway into Mantaro River, Jauja, Junín Region,
Peru, killing thirty people.[citation needed]
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.[49]
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.[citation needed]
1984
January 30 India – A Paonta Sahib-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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
August 26 – A bus slipped and plunged into a 13-feet deep irrigation canal near Salkot, Nepal, killing 25
people.[citation needed]
September 5 – A bus carrying 50 passengers plunged into a 3,300-foot-deep (1,000 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.[citation needed]
September 24 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 42 people and injuring
15.[50]
October 31. Argentina – The collision of a commuter train with a passenger bus during the morning
hours in the city of Buenos Aires causes a tragedy, 48 people die and 15 others injured. is the worst accident
involving a train and a bus in Argentina.
November 25 – A bus returning from the shore of the Black Sea collided with a lorry in dense fog at
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northern Cankiri, Turkey, at least thirty people dead and injuring twenty-four.[citation needed]
December 23 – An overcrowded passenger bus plunged off an expressway at Apaseo Grande,
Guanjuato, Mexico, at least twenty-two people dead and injuring thirty-five.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
1985
January 11 – A regular route bus skidded off a covered bridge in icy conditions and plunged into a
frozen river at Yeongdong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, killing 38 people.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[51]
July 21 – A bus carrying 42 passengers returning from a Buddhist ordination ceremony collided head-onwith a truck at an intersection in a suburb of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 26 people and injuring
16.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
22 September – A school bus rolls over in Layyah, Pakistan, killing 30 children.[52]
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.[53]
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.[citation needed]
1986
January 17 India – A crowded passenger bus plunged into 89-feet deep ravine, with navigate a sharp
curve at Navsari, Gujarat, India, killing 49 people and injuring ten.[citation needed]
April 26 India – A bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine where plunged off a cliff at outskirt of Kathgodam,
Uttarakhand, India, killing 44 people.[citation needed]
May 12 South Africa – An overcrowded bus ran out of control due to brake failure and flipped overnear Mount Frere, Eastern Cape, Transkei, South Africa, killing 30 people. Another 64 people are
injured.[citation needed]
23 May Philippines – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province, Philippines, killing 23
people and injuring 15.[54]
30 May USA – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River near Walker, Mono County, California,
killing 21 people and injuring 19.[55]
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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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
July 26 UK – Lockington rail crash: A train derails after colliding with a Ford Escort at a rail crossing inLockington, 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.[citation needed]
October 21 – Two packed buses hit by a passenger express train at Landhi, Karachi, Pakistan, bothbus drivers tried to reach waiting passenger trains and often are involved accidents, killing 35 people and
injuring 24.[citation needed]
November 3 – A bus crashed into road side at outskirt of Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, killing 33
people and injuring 28.[citation needed]
1987
January 4 Brazil – A bus carrying workers head-on collided with a truck carrying tomatoes at
Itapetininga, state of São Paulo, Brazil, killing fifteen people and injuring eleven.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
29 March China – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi, China, killing 19 people and injuring 28.[56]
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.[citation needed]
July 7 Germany – A tank truck carrying gasoline crash and hit ice-cream parlor at Herborn, Lahn-Dill-
Kreis, Hesse, Germany, killing six people and injuring 29.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
28 October UK – A diesel tank truck collides with stationary traffic on the M61 motorway near
Preston, Lancashire, killing 12 people and injuring 6.[citation needed]
December 11 Egypt – A bus carrying local primary school children returning from the Guiza zoo wassmashed 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.[57]
December 27 Algeria – A passenger bus and two trucks carrying illegal passengers collided near
Bouandas, Sétif, Algeria, killing 32 people and injuring 19.[citation needed]
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 River, near Jérémie, Grand'Anse Department, Haiti,
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killing 70 people.[citation needed]
February 15 – A bus plunged into a 170-foot ravine near Pallasca Province, Ancash Region, Peru,
killing 14 people.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
12 August Iran – Two buses collide on the highway between Tehran and Tabriz in northern Iran, killing
30 people and injuring 50.[58]
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.[citation needed]
22 September India – A bus falls into a ravine near Simla, India. 35 people die.[59]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
October 12 – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi, China, killing 43 people and injuring
40.[60]
October 21 – Three separate buses collided with a refrigerator truck and overturned at Martorell,
Catalonia, Spain, killing 14 people and injuring 65.[citation needed]
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 Lanka. 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.[citation needed]
February 26 – A bus plunged 330-feet into a deep valley at outskirt of Taoyuan City, Taiwan, killing
twelve people and injuring 24.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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
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100-feet embankment at Outskirt of Estancia, Sergipe, Brazil, killing 31 people and injuring
fifty.[citation needed]
July 16 Japan – A landslide caused by intense rain collapsed a tunnel, striking a minibus and killing 15
people at Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[5]
October 8 Canada – 13 adults and children are killed and 30 are injured near Shediac, NewBrunswick, 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 buscollided 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.[citation needed]
1990s
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 andthe British Isles.
28 February Malaysia – 17 people including 11 Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) riot police personal werekilled in a collision between FRU riot police vehicles, tanker lorry, passenger bus and 10 cars on the KualaLumpur-Karak Expressway, Malaysia.
20 March United States – Whilst on tour, a semi trailer rammed into a tour bus containing singer GloriaEstefan, 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.[61][62]
22 April Cuba – Two buses collide in Havana, Cuba, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 13.[63]
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 coachto crash, killing 11 people and injuring 61 British tourists, all returning from Costa Brava. This resulted in alegal 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[64]
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.[65]
September 20 – A mini-van skidded on the slippery road rammed inter-city bus exceeded speed andplunged 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.[citation needed]
September 24 – A truck carrying two unsecured 20,000-liter liquefied petroleum gas tanks overturnedon 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.[66]
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
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21.[citation needed]
9 November Netherlands – Almost at the same spot and with the same cause of the August 25, 1972accident: 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.[67]
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.[citation needed]
22 November USSR – A bus ignores a red light and collides with a train at a railroad crossing inDonetsk, 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.[68]
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.[citation needed]
30 December USSR – 56 people die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway betweenVoronezh and Rostov-on-Don in southwestern Russia.
1991
January 6 Kenya – A bus slammed into a tree on a railroad crossing at outskirt of Murang'a, CentralProvince, Kenya, in an incident caused by driver losing control and excessive speed, killing 47 people,
another 40 are injured.[citation needed]
January 13 – A Dapitan-Dipolog regular route bus plunged into a river at outskirt of Sindangan,
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, killing 25 people.[citation needed]
15 February – A trailer truck carrying dynamite explodes at Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga, Thailand
killing 171 local villagers.[69]
March 13 UK – 1991 M4 Motorway crash: 10 people die in a 45 vehicle pile up in foggy conditions onthe M4 motorway near Hungerford.
31 July USA – A bus carrying about 60 Girl Scouts overturns on a desert mountain road near California
Highway 111 and not far from Palm Springs, killing 7 people.[70]
4 August Zimbabwe – A crowded bus carrying school children loses control and crashes in Troutbeck,
Manicaland, Zimbabwe, killing 87 people, including 82 children.[71]
7 August Austria – The brakes of a Hungarian tourist bus fail in Styria, killing 15 people and injuring
28.[47]
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.[72][73]
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.
1992
March 1 Bangladesh – A regular route bus with 100 passengers vaulted into a road side creek at
outskirt of Jaldhalca, Nilphamari District, Bangladesh, killing 25 people.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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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.[citation needed]
April 18 Argentina – A Buenos Aires-Mar del Plata regular route bus smashed with three vehicles andfoggy condition at outskirt of Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 32 people and injuring 40.
19 August – A bus falls down an embankment on the A7 highway in Spain, killing 45 and injuring
11.[74]
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.[47]
September 27 Nepal – A truck plunged 450 feet below at outskirt of Dhankuta, Nepal, killing 21
people.[citation needed]
September 27 Hungary – A minibus carrying German travellers collided with local train crossing at
Agárd, Hungary, killing 16 people, another three are injured.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
1993
9 January Argentina – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in Santo Tomé, Corrientes,
Argentina, killing 55 people and injuring 70.[75]
April 30 – A passenger train hit a bus carrying children of Shergli Primary schools at unguarded railroadcrossing at Phutthamonthon, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand, killing 36 people including 28
children.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
July 24 Indonesia – A Surabaya-Pandanwangi passenger train rammed into an intercity bus anunguarded railroad crossing, and a bus dragged for eighty-yard before the train halted at Jombang, West
Java, Indonesia, killing fifteen people and injuring twenty.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
10 November – A fiery pile-up on autoroute A10 near Mirambeau, France leaves 15 people dead and
53 injured.[76]
17 November UK – The M40 minibus crash leaves 12 children dead when their minibus collides with amaintenance vehicle near Warwick, England, causing new road security campaigns.
December 27 Brazil – An overloaded Curitiba-Porto Alegre regular route bus collided with sports carand plunged into a ravine at outskirt of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, killing 41 people, another 79 are
injured.[citation needed]
1994
January 10 China – A bus pass through guardrail, veered off Feiyun bridge river at Rui'an, Zhejiang,
China, killing 45 people.[citation needed]
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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.[citation needed]
January 31 Vietnam – A regular route bus caught fire and plunged into 300-feet below of sea at nationalhighway 1, Ca Pass, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, killing 28 people, another 11 are
injured.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
May 26 South Africa – A bus lost control and plunged into dam at Lothain, Eastern Transvaal, South
Africa, killing 36 people.[citation needed]
May 26 South Africa – A minibus head-on collided a truck at outskirt of Middelburg, Eastern
Transvaal, South Africa, killing 13 people.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
1995
January 21 Mexico – A truck carrying religious pilgrims plunged 50 feet off a highway outside Oaxaca
city, Mexico, killing 22 people and injuring ten.[citation needed]
February 5 Colombia – A bus collided with a truck carrying cement near Ponedera, Atlántico
Department, Colombia, killing 13 people.[citation needed]
March 12 – A truck carrying benzene rammed a bus outside Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, killing
110 people.[citation needed]
1996
January 1 Mexico – 2 buses collided after one veered into the wrong lane at Highway Two line,
Sonoytai, Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexico, killing 23 people, another 50 are injured.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[5]
25 February Bolivia – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia, killing at least 35 people.[77]
28 February Spain – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen, Spain, killing 29 people and injuring
17.[78]
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March 17 Saudi Arabia – A bus carrying illegal foreigners has crushed at outskirt of 'Asir, Jizan, Saudi
Arabia, killing 45 people.[citation needed]
April 4 – A Seoul commuter bus plunged at Han River, Yeouido, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South
Korea, killing 20 people, another injuring are 38.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
September 29 Japan – A minivan carrying construction workers crashed at national highway route 9,
Muraoka, Hyōgo, Japan, killing 10 people.[5]
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.[citation needed]
1997
January 14 — A crowded city bus plunges into the Nile in Cairo, Egypt, killing 39 people and injuring
24.[79]
January 19 — A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab, India, killing 29
people and injuring 12.[80]
10 March — 3 people killed and 60 injured in 160 vehicle collision on the M42 motorway due to
fog.[81][82]
March 24 — A Seoul bound passenger train smashed into packed local bus, where flipped a vehicleonto railroad side at Namwon, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, killing fourteen people and injuring
twenty.[citation needed]
May 8 — 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.[citation needed]
August 31 — Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in a Paris underpass along with 2 other passengers.
October 13 — Les Éboulements bus accident in Quebec, Canada, results in 44 deaths when a busplunges into a ravine, the worst bus accident in Canadian history.
October 24 — 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 weretrapped in the bus when both vehicles got aflame. The accident led to wide debate on fire-safety standarts of
passenger buses.
October 25 — A bus smashed into a carrying gasoline tanker truck at Tugela River, Port Shepstone,South Africa. This bus carrying Inkatha Freedom Party devotees and members. At least 33 people
killed.[citation needed]
November 6 — A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province, Cuba, killing at least 56
people.[83]
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November 19 — 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.[citation needed]
November 27 — At least 34 people drowned when their bus fell into a canal in Karnataka. [84]
December 8 — Twenty-two people were killed when a lorry collided with a minibus in central Rwanda.[85]
1998
January 2 — Six people were killed and two others were seriously injured when a bus and a jeep
collided in state of Rajasthan [86]
January 5 — 43 people were killed and more than 60 seriously injured when a bus plunged down a
steep slope in Nyanga district, after the brakes of a bus failed. [87]
January 7 — A Meru-Nairobi Kenyan Bus Service regular route bus lost control of the vehicle andplummeted down 100-feet embankment into Nithi river, Kenya, killing 58 people, another 42 are injured.[88]
January 13 — 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.[citation needed]
March 9 — At least 16 killed and 6 missing after their bus plunged into a flooded river in the
mountainous. [89]
April 3 — A petrol tanker truck collided with a bus of Iranian Muslims returning from Syria at outskirt
of Birecik, Şanlıurfa, Turkey, killing 28 people, another 7 are injured.[citation needed]
April 15 — A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, killing
31 people, including 27 children.[90]
April 26 — At least 10 killed in bus accident in Province of Alicante. [91]
May 5 — At least 72 people drowned on Monday when the bus they were travelling in was swept into
a river in Tanga Region. [92]
July 15 — At least 45 killed when a bus has plunged several hundred feet into a river in Arunachal
Pradesh. [93]
July 27 — At least 19 killed including 2 children and 60 injured in a bus crash on Sunday. [94]
August 12 — A bus has crashed down a ravine in Montenegro and killed at least 18. [95]
August 26 — At least 17 people have been killed when a bus hit a tractor trailer in Uttar Pradesh. [96]
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August 30 — At least 21 people were killed when a bus they were travelling in left the road and crashed
down a hillside in western Nepal. [97]
August 31 — 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.[citation needed]
September 8 — 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.[98]
September 20 — About 40 killed in bus-train collision in Turkmenistan. [99]
September 27 — At least 23 people died and 18 injured when a bus fell off a cliff near the southern
town of Mayoc. [100]
November 11 — At least 40 people were killed when a bus plunged down a mountain gorge in
Arunachal Pradesh. [101]
December 14 — At least 19 people were killed and 35 injured when a bus fell into a gorge in the
Pithoragarh district. [102]
December 23 — 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.[citation needed]
December 23 — At least 21 people killed when a bus collided with a large truck. [103]
December 25 — At least 19 people killed in Andhra Pradesh when a bus crashed into a train. [104]
December 31 — 100 cars crashed on an ice-slicked section of Interstate-75 in central Michigan, killing
one and injuring 39.[105]
1999
January 4 — A local bus carrying 40 passengers exploded and blast ripped at outskirt of Linghai,
Jinzhou, Liaoning, China, killing 18 people.[citation needed]
January 9 — 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. [106]
January 21 — At least 22 killed when a bus fell into a ravine near the town of Baguio on Wednesday
night. [107]
January 24 — A bus carrying Hungarian skiers where plunged off a hillside at outskirts of
Deutschlandsberg, Styria, Austria, killing 18 people, another 32 are injured.[108]
January 31 — At least 31 killed when a bus plundged off a bridge. [109]
15 March — 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.
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truck and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States, killing 11 people.
& 24 March — 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire.
30 April — A small vehicle collides with a stopped tanker truck loaded with propane and starts a firenear Kamena Vourla, Fthiotis. A huge explosion follows several minutes later killing 5 people and injuring
14.[110]
May 9 — A bus slipped and plunged 680-feet down slope at Kapurbot Bazar, Saiyan, Rapti, Nepal,
killing 32 people, another 36 are injured.[citation needed]
9 May — A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing 22 people
and injuring 24.[111]
May 21 — A truck and a bus are involved in a crash in the town of San Luis Province. Is the worstdisaster in the history of the province, killed 21 people and 4 other survivors
May 29 — 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel in Austria.
June 6 - At least 8 people died on Saturday after a bus burst a tyre and overturned at Naivasha on themain Nairobi to Nakuru highway, in another accident 12 were killed when the bus collided with another
vehicle. [112]
June 8 — At least 94 killed including 11 children after a bus plunged into a lake in Karnataka. [113]
July 18 — A Kiari-Shimla HRTC regular route bus carrying 90 passengers aboard plunged into 40-feet
deep gorge at outskirt of Baghar, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 18 people, another 55 are injured.[114]
July 24 — A trailer truck crashes into cars slowed by roadwork on Quebec Autoroute 20 near Saint-
Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing 4 people and injuring 11.[115] A public investigation is launched.
August 11 — An attack on a passenger bus in the town of Fighiera in the Santa Fe Province causes a
strong fire. 13 people dead and 5 wounded.
3 September — Dense fog on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario reduces visibility to less than ameter (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.[116]
September 14 — 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.[citation needed]
September 16 — Two road accidents in Peru involving buses have killed at least 16 people and injured
48 others. [117]
September 19 — At least 20 people have died in a bus accident. [118]
September 22 — At least 11 people have been killed in South Africa in a head-on collision between a
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bus and a truck. [119]
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.[citation needed]
October 4 — At least 19 people have been killed and 47 seriously injured after a bus crashed down a
river embankment. [120]
October 5 — At least 45 people have been killed in a bus crash in the Indonesian province of West
Java. [121]
October 25 — A bus swerved to avoid hitting a cow and skidded off a mountain road into a deepgorge, killing 27 and injuring 47 on the way home from a temple in Northern India in Hoshiarpur district, 70
miles northeast of Amritsar.[122]
November 7 — At least 50 people have died in a bus crash in Indian-administered Jammu and
Kashmir. [123]
November 19 — A commuter bus collided with many vehicles, include truck, bus at Lagos-Kanoexpressway at outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Aftermath, a bus caught fire on impact. This accident
killed 22 people, another 16 are injured.[citation needed]
December 30 — A Karachi-Rawalpindi regular route bus overturned and caught fire atLahore-Islamabad M2 expressway, outskirt of Kallar Kahar, Punjab of Pakistan, in an incident caused by
exceed speed, killing 48 people, another 20 are injured.[citation needed]
See also
AccidentList of bridge failures
List of level crossing accidentsLists of rail accidents includes level crossing accidents
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