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The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack [12] perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35. [4] [13] Fields, 20, had previously espoused ...
Ifeanyi, a teammate, and a friend all died in the fatal car crash. Mat George: 1995 2021 26 years American podcast host pedestrian Los Angeles He was killed in a hit-and-run crash. Vladimir Gerasimov: 1989 2018 28 years Russian footballer motorcycle Zhejiang, China Melody Gersbach: 1985 2010 24 years Filipina beauty pageant contestant bus ...
Multiple-vehicle collision. A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pile-up or multi-car collision ), [1] is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic collisions. [citation needed]
2000. July 7 – Spain – A bus collided head-on with a truck near Soria, killing 27 and injuring 13. [1] August 28 – Nigeria – Abuja bus crash. A lorry crushed three buses after its brakes failed, rolling backwards into a crowded bus station and killing over 70. Related riots the next day killed four more people.
Per capita road accident deaths in the US reversed their decline in the early 2010s. This table shows the motor vehicle fatality rate in the United States by year from 1899 through 2021. It excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For 2016, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal ...
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
Spontaneous roadside memorials, often in the form of white crosses, Stars of David, bouquets of flowers, and photos of the dead, have been placed along roads at the scenes of fatal accidents. As of July 1, 2003, Virginia law has banned these memorials. Transportation officials have deemed them a threat to the safety of motorists. Virginia law ...
Injured. 34. The Carrollton bus collision occurred on May 14, 1988, on Interstate 71 in unincorporated Carroll County, Kentucky. The collision involved a former school bus in use by a church youth group and a pickup truck driven by an alcohol-impaired driver. The head-on collision was the deadliest incident involving drunk driving and the third ...