List of traffic collisions (before 2000)

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For traffic collisions that occurred after the year 2000 and all the way up to the present, see List of traffic collisions (2000–present), for notable people who died in traffic collisions, see List of people who died in traffic collisions.

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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. 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).


Notable historic road crashes
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 — References — External links


1700s[]

"A Typical Cable 'Accident' on Broadway.", ca. 29 August 1895
  • 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 crash. 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[]

  • 31 August 1869 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. 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.[2]
  • 1890 London had 5,728 street crashes, resulting in 144 deaths.[3] It may be that not all of these involved motorised carriages.
  • 1891 US. John William Lambert, was involved in the first recorded automobile crash in American history. The crash occurred in Ohio City, Ohio. Lambert's vehicle—the first single-cylinder gasoline automobile, which was carrying Lambert and James Swoveland, hit a tree root, causing the car to careen out of control and smash into a hitching post. Injuries were minor.[4]
  • 17 August 1896 UK – 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 United Kingdom. As she crossed the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London, she was struck by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used to give demonstration rides.[5]
  • 25 February 1899 UK – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer are thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, London, and killed. Sewell's death is the first recorded fatality of a driver.[6]
  • 13 September 1899 – Henry H. Bliss is the first person killed by a car in the United States. He was struck by an electric-powered taxicab while exiting the 8th Avenue trolley on West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York City.

1920s[]

1930s[]

1935[]

  • 29 August Belgium – Queen Astrid of Belgium is killed in a car crash in Küssnacht am Rigi, near Lake Lucerne, Schwyz, Switzerland. She was riding in a Packard One-Twenty driven by her husband King Leopold III when it went off the road and crashed into a pear tree.

1937[]

  • 25 March - A bus carrying a roller derby team crashed just west of Salem, Illinois, killing 21 of the 23 people on the bus.[8]

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.[9]

1944[]

  • June UK – A British Army lorry crashes into a house at Burley in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, killing 19 soldiers.[9]
  • October UK – A United States Army bus collides with a lorry near Marlborough, Wiltshire, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 21.[9]

1947[]

  • October UK – A bus crashes into a building at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, killing 9 people.[9]

1948[]

  • January UK – A bus skids into a bus queue at Bargeddie, near Glasgow, Scotland, killing 8 people and injuring 12.[9]
  • 24 November Sweden – A trolleybus on line 96 collided with a truck loaded with concrete slabs that were heading in the opposite direction. The bus drove off Essingebron in Stockholm and 11 people died.[10]

1950s[]

1950[]

  • 11 February Japan – A -Kumamoto Kyūshū Sanko regular route bus plunges into a pond 40 feet (12 m) below at , Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan, killing 22 people and injuring 18.[11]
  • UK (Scotland) May – A bus and a tram collide in Glasgow, killing 7 people and injuring 43.[9]
  • 7 November Japan – A regular route bus plunges 240 feet (73 m) into the Mononobe river, , eastern Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan, killing 33 people; another 24 are injured.[11]

1951[]

  • 15 July Japan – A Shimokawai-Chubutenryu regular route bus plunges off the Harada bridge, Tenryū River, Urakawa, Hokkaidō, northwestern Shizuoka Prefecture, killing 24.[11]
  • 4 December UK – Gillingham bus disaster, Gillingham, Kent, England. During an evening march in a badly-lit area, a double-decker bus struck a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps, aged between ten and thirteen years. 24 cadets were killed and 18 injured; at the time it was the greatest loss of life of any road crash in British history. The crash was later ruled accidental.[12]

1954[]

  • 29 March. Argentina – The collision between a train and a bus in the city of Coronel Suarez, Buenos Aires Province causes 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.[13]
  • 12 November, Réunion – The brakes of a bus fail on the downhill slope of , in Saint-Paul. 54 people are killed, 23 instantly (1957 Saint-Paul bus accident).

1955[]

  • 30 September United States - Death of James Dean: The death of Hollywood actor James Dean occurred near Cholame, California. Dean had previously competed in several auto racing events, and was traveling to a sports car racing competition when his Porsche 550 Spyder collided with another car at the junction of California State Route 46 (former 466) and California State Route 41. He was 24 years old.[14]

1957[]

  • 6 June United States -[15] An early morning collision 7 miles (11 km) north of Fayetteville, North Carolina when a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulls in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes, killing 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history.
  • 10 November – 1957 Saint-Paul bus accident

1958[]

  • 28 February United States – Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus disaster: A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck on US 23 and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in the worst school bus crash in U.S. history.
  • 22 December Greece –: A suburban bus from Ioannina to Chouliarades carrying 34 people (32 passengers, 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. There were 29 fatalities, 7 of them minors.[16]

1959[]

  • 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 crash in German history.[17]
  • 10 September United States - Oakland, Maryland: A school bus stalled on railroad tracks and was hit by a train, killing 7 children and injuring 11 [18]

1960s[]

1960[]

  • 24 July – A charter bus collides with a regular route bus, the charter bus plunging 270 feet (80 m) into a valley along the toll road of Mount Hiei, Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan, killing 30 people and injuring another 18.[11]
  • 14 September – A truck struck a suburban bus which subsequently crashed into an olive tree between Athens and Korinth. The collision claimed 11 lives (10 passengers and the driver).[19]
  • 29 November 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.[20]

1961[]

  • 14 December. 20 schoolchildren were killed in a bus-train collision at 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.[21]

1962[]

  • 11 June. Argentina – The Villa Soldati level crossing tragedy occurred in Buenos Aires when a train struck a municipal bus carrying school children to kindergarten. There were 42 children killed and 83 injured.

1963[]

  • 7 February – The Brynderwyn bus accident. A bus in Northland Region, New Zealand leaves the road after brake failure and rolls down a valley; the worst road crash in New Zealand history.[22]
  • 7 April Kenya – A bus returning from an African church meeting plunges into the Tiva River, Mitaboni, Machakos, Kenya, killing at least 72 people.[23]
  • 18 May United States – A bus carrying 69 migrant agricultural workers crashed into a canal in Belle Glade Florida killing 42

[24]

  • 10 June United States – An open truck carrying 49 Boy Scouts and leaders stalls while climbing a hill en route to Hole in the Rock, Utah, loses its brakes, and plunges into Carcass Wash, killing 13 people.[25]
  • 17 September United States – Chualar bus crash. In the worst road crash in U.S. history, a train hit a flatbed truck used as a bus at a rail crossing in Chualar, California, killing 32 people and injuring 25.[26]

1965[]

  • 1 January Peru – A Huancayo-Ayacucho regular route bus plunges 300 feet (90 m) into a ravine of the Mantaro River, Peru, killing 31 people.[27]
  • 10 January Mexico – A bus carrying soccer players and their families plunges 450 feet (140 m) into a ravine on the outskirts of Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico, killing 19 people and injuring 22.[28]
  • 3 February Mexico – A regular route bus plunges 300 feet (90 m) off a cliff along the Mexico-Ciudad Juárez expressway on the outskirts of Zacatecas, Mexico, killing 25 people and injuring 40.[29]
  • 10 February 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.[30]
  • 18 February Italy – A Naples-Salerno regular route bus plunges 15 metres (50 ft) into a ravine on the Naples-Pompeii expressway near Mount Vesuvius, Italy, killing 17 people and injuring 60.[31]
  • 2 March 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 Obertauern, Austria.[32]
  • 1 November Egypt – A crowded trolley bus plunges into the Nile on the outskirts of Dokki, Giza, Egypt, killing 74 people.[33]
  • 6 December Togo – Two trucks carrying United Nations peacekeeping workers collide at Sotouboua, Togo. Togolese authorities claim 125 people are killed.[34]

1966[]

  • 25 July Germany – A bus carrying Belgian children on vacation plunges off a West German autobahn bridge and crashes on its roof. 33 people are killed, including 27 children and the driver who fell asleep at the wheel. Only 4 people survive.[35]
  • 7 October Canada – Dorion level crossing crash: 19 people are killed when a school bus is hit by a CN Rail freight train in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec.

1967[]

  • 15 December United States – Silver Bridge linking Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, collapses into the Ohio River under heavy traffic in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, killing 46 people.[36]

1968[]

  • 6 January UK – In the Hixon rail crash, a British Rail passenger train hits a low-loader transporter and derails killing 11 and injuring 45 in Hixon, Staffordshire, England.[37]
  • 18 August Japan – During intense rain, two charter buses crash into the Hida River on national highway route 41 in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, killing 104 people.[11]

1969[]

  • 6 June 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.[38]
  • 21 June Syria – An overcrowded vehicle carrying 35 workers crashes at Mahardah, , killing 25 people.[39]
  • 18 July United States – The Chappaquiddick incident. One person (Mary Jo Kopechne) was killed when a car driven by US Senator Ted Kennedy crashed off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. A political scandal ensued.

1970s[]

1970[]

  • 27 September South Korea – A regular route bus plunges off a mountain cliff on the outskirts of Myongju, Gyeongsangnam-do, killing 15 people and injuring 20.[40]
  • 22 November Argentina – A bus plunges into a creek on the outskirts of Reconquista, Santa Fe Province, killing 56 people; 4 survive.[41]

1971[]

  • 10 May South Korea – At least 75 persons drowned when a bus carrying nearly 90 passengers aboard plunged into a reservoir near Cheongpyeong.[42]
  • 17 September - Spain - in Valdepeñas a truck full of three tons of brick crash into a French Coach bus after a flat killing 18, specifically 17 Quebecers tourists[43]

1972[]

  • 22 March United States – In the Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident five 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 the State of New York to require school vehicles to stop at all railroad crossings.
  • 13 May United States – 1972 Bean Station, Tennessee bus crash 14 people were killed in a head-on collision between a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W near Bean Station, Tennessee. One of the deadliest crashes in Tennessee history, it led to the completion of Interstate 81 and the widening of many highways in the state from two lanes to four.[44]
  • June 25 Spain – A bus carrying soccer fans home from a game plunged into a ravine near Caceres, Spain killing 22 and injuring a further 34.[45]
  • 25 August Netherlands – Many cars and trucks collided in sudden dense fog on highway A16 near Prinsenbeek, killing 13 in the crash and subsequent fires.[46] A fog warning system was installed after this crash, nevertheless a similar crash occurred some 18 years later.
  • 23 September Japan – An Akakura-Togakushi regular route bus carrying 82 passengers plunged from a single-lane road into a ravine at Shinano, Nagano, Japan. 15 people were killed and 67 injured.[11]

1973[]

  • 18 July France – A bus carrying Belgian tourists plunges into a ravine in Vizille, France, killing 43 people.[47]
  • 4 November USA – A bus carrying gamblers to Reno crashed into a pillar five miles north of Sacramento killing 13 and injuring a further 31.[48]
  • 20 November 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 another 43. A further 10 are reported missing. Most of the passengers were children. [49]

1974[]

  • 15 January – 1974 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, killing 19.
  • 28 July – A crowded bus and a truck collide near Belém, Brazil, killing 69 people.[47]
  • 30 July - Fibre, Michigan – 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 8 were killed.[50]

1975[]

  • 1 January Japan – A charter bus carrying 62 passengers plunged 100 feet (30 m) into Aoki Lake, Omachi, Nagano, Japan, killing 24 people.[11]
  • 2 April France – A bus carrying religious pilgrims suffered a brake failure and plunged off a bridge near Vizille killing 27 and injuring 16. [51]
  • 27 May UK – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash, England: a bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge near Hebden, North Yorkshire killing 32 people, and injuring 13.[52]

1976[]

  • 16 February Sweden – The worst traffic accident in Sweden occurred outside Axamo, Jönköping. Overheated tires caused a bus fire, killing 15 and injured 28.[53]
  • 21 May United States – Yuba City bus disaster A bus carrying the Yuba City High School a cappella choir falls off Interstate 680 in California, killing 28 students and a teacher. This is the second deadliest bus crash in U.S. history, after the 1963 Chualar bus crash.[54]
  • 22 August Brazil – Former president Juscelino Kubitschek is killed when his car crashes into a truck on the . His driver is also killed.
  • 21 December 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.[55]

1977[]

  • 9 June – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight people and injuring 18.[56]
  • 7 July 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.
  • 11 August Japan – A charter bus plunged 120 feet (37 m) into a ravine at Nagatoro bridge, Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, killing 11 people and injuring 39.[11]

1978[]

  • 22 January Poland – A truck with steel elements collided with crowded bus of PKS (Polish Road Transport) – killed 15 people and seriously injured 14 ( [pl]).
  • 11 July 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.[57]
  • 4 August Canada – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman, Quebec, Canada killing 40 people. Only seven people survive.[58]
  • 15 November 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.[59]
  • 21 December Spain– A school bus was struck by a locomotive on a level crossing near Salamanca killing 28, including 27 students, and injuring a further 36 [60]

1979[]

  • 10 April Spain – A bus carrying pupils from a trip to Madrid and Toledo plunged into a river near Benavente killing 50 of the 60 people aboard.[61]
  • 2 June South Korea – A bus collided with a truck and plunged into a river near killing approximately 20 and injuring a further 20.[62]
  • 16 August Yugoslavia – A bus collided with a truck and plunged into a river near Novi Sad killing 14 and injuring a further 40.[63]

1980s[]

1980[]

  • 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.[64]
  • 9 May United States – 35 people are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida, after a cargo ship collided with a bridge pier, demolishing over 1200 ft. of the bridge.
  • 5 June United States – A tour bus rolls off the highway near Jasper, Arkansas, killing 22 people and injuring 19.[65]
  • 29 June 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.[66]
  • 29 June 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.[67]

1981[]

  • 26 April Mexico – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck near Tijuana, kills 30 people and injures between a further 10 to 15.[68]
  • 22 May Mexico – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Chiapas province, kills 33 people.[69]
  • 29 September Spain – A head-on collision of a bus and a truck in Toledo province, Spain, kills at least 25 people.[70]
  • 28 November Chile – A collision between a bus and a truck 200 miles south of Santiago, Chile on the Pan American Highway kills 32 and injures a further 10.[71]

1982[]

  • 31 January Chile – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, killing 14 people and injuring 70.[72]
  • 20 April Egypt – A bus carrying Greek tourists to visit the Saint Catherine's Monastery crashed near El-Arish in the Sinai Desert killing 18 and injuring 27.[73]
  • 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.[74] Full article: Beaune coach crash.
  • 12 August Mexico - During the early hours of the day, a Porsche car collides with a truck, propelling the Porsche to crash into an oncoming truck, killing the driver of the Porsche car, world champion boxer Salvador Sanchez.[75]
  • 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 crash in Switzerland to date.[76]
  • 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 killed in the Salang tunnel fire in central Afghanistan, after a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as great as 2,700 dead.[77]

1983[]

  • 19 January United States – 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.[78]
  • 11 February Greece – A Greek Railways bus carrying passengers from Salonica to Athens was involved with a head-on collision with a truck 80 miles northwest of Athens killing 17 and injuring 10.[79]
  • 26 April Italy – A bus carrying students from Naples to Lake Garda collided with a trailer-truck in a highway tunnel just south of Florence killing 12 and injuring 35.[80]
  • 24 May Italy – A bus carrying elderly pilgrims from the city of Monza skidded off a highway and fell into a ravine near Tignale killing all 14 occupants.[81]
  • 1 November – A bus collides with a motorcycle and hits a second bus 600 kilometres (370 mi) northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 21 people and injuring 40.[82]
  • 18 December Italy – A bus carrying sailors from Aulla to Turin to watch a soccer match between A.C. Milan and Juventus skidded off a overpass near Genoa killing 34 occupants and injuring 4 others.[83]

1984[]

  • 11 June – A bus carrying military cadets crashed into a bridge and caught fire in Venezuela, killing 33 people and injuring 8.[84]
  • 24 September – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 42 people and injuring 15.[85]
  • 24 December South Africa – A bus carrying contract workers from Cape Town crashed near Cradock, Eastern Cape killing 42 and injuring an additional 25.[86]

1985[]

  • 12 January South Korea – A bus going from Muju to Taejon plunged into an icy river near Yeongdong County killing 40 of the 41 people on board. Passenger Kang Yu-il was the sole survivor.[87]
  • 27 January 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 a further 8 [88]
  • 11 February West Germany – A bus carrying members of the Royal Air Force band collided with a fuel tanker near Langenbruck killing 21 and injuring an additional 22. It is known as the Langenbruck bus crash[89]
  • 27 March – A school bus crashed through a barrier and plunged into a dam killing 42 school children Westdene, Gauteng, South Africa. It is known as the Westdene dam disaster
  • 11 June – A bus carrying school children on a field trip collides with a train near Moshav Habonim, Israel; 21 people killed, including 19 children.[90]
  • 22 September – A school bus rolls over in Layyah, Pakistan, killing 30 children.[91]
  • 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.[92]
  • 5 November Italy – A bus carrying mostly students and workers from Leonforte to Catania skidded off a bridge killing 15 occupants and injuring a further 6.[93]

1986[]

  • 23 May, Philippines – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province, killing 23 people and injuring 15.[94]
  • 30 May United States – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River near Walker, Mono County, California, killing 21 people and injuring 19.[95]
  • 26 July UK – Lockington rail crash: A train derails after colliding with a Ford Escort at a rail crossing in Lockington, Yorkshire, England, killing 8 people aboard the train and one aboard the car.
  • 27 September Sweden – Metallica's bus skids off the road, killing Cliff Burton.[96]

1987[]

  • 29 March China – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi, China, killing 19 people and injuring 28.[97]
  • 3 July Spain – A bus carrying elderly vacationers skidded off a highway and fell into a ravine near Ourense killing 34 and injuring a further 11.[98]
  • 4 July Portugal – A bus carrying tourists skidded into a house near Covilha killing 15 and injuring at least 30.[99]
  • 17 November Spain – A bus carrying workers to Madrid overturned near Toledo, Spain killing at least 10 and injuring a further 37.[100]
  • 11 December Egypt – A bus carrying local primary school children returning from the Guiza zoo was smashed by a fast-speed train at an unmarked railroad level crossing at , on the outskirts Cairo, Egypt, killing 62 children and injuring 67.[101]

1988[]

  • 25 March Spain – An express train hit a nursery bus killing 15, including 12 children, near Juneda in Catalonia.[102]
  • 1 April South Korea – A bus plunged into the Hangang river in Seoul after a tire blew out killing 18 and injuring 36.[103]
  • 14 May United States – 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. It remains the deadliest drunk driving crash in American history.
  • 12 August Iran – Two buses collide on the highway between Tehran and Tabriz in northern Iran, killing 30 people and injuring 50.[104]
  • 15 August Norway – 16 people, including 12 children, die in the Måbødalen bus crash when a bus rams into a concrete wall in a tunnel 100 kilometres (60 mi) east of Bergen, Norway.[105]
  • 21 February India – A bus falls into a ravine near Simla, India. 35 people die.[106]
  • 12 October China – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi, China, killing 43 people and injuring 40.[107]
  • 23 December United States - Memphis tank truck disaster - a tank truck hauling liquefied propane crashed in Memphis, Tennessee, killing 9, injuring 10, and starting multiple vehicle and structure fires.[108]

1989[]

  • 16 July Japan – A landslide caused by intense rain collapsed a tunnel, striking a minibus and killing 15 people at Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[11]
  • 21 September United States - Alton, Texas bus crash - A truck hit a school bus in Alton, Texas, and the bus fell into a caliche pit filled with water; 21 students died.[109]
  • 8 October Canada – Cormier-Village Hayride Accident, 13 adults and children are killed and 30 are injured near Shediac, New Brunswick, when a transport truck carrying logs spilled its cargo while passing a loaded hayride.
  • 20 October Australia – The Grafton bus crash – A Sydney-Brisbane Sunliner Coaches tourist bus collided head-on with a tractor trailer truck near Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, killing 21 people and injuring 22.
  • 22 December Australia – 35 people are killed in the Kempsey bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Kempsey, New South Wales. Two Denning Leedster coaches collided head-on on the Pacific Highway.

1990s[]

1990[]

  • 20 March United States – Whilst on tour, a semi trailer rammed into a tour bus containing singer Gloria Estefan, husband Emilio, their son and three other passengers at Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, severely injuring Gloria. Following extensive surgery, she returned to an international tour ten months after the crash.[110]
  • 22 April Cuba – Two buses collide in Havana, Cuba, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 13.[111]
  • 3 June France – Joigny coach crash: A Shropshire based double-decker coach bus suffered a blowout of the front tyre on the autoroute A6 near Auxerre when it was 20 mph in excess of the speed limit, causing the 76-seat coach to crash, killing 11 people and injuring 61 British tourists, all returning from Costa Brava. This resulted in a legal action against Avon Rubber, manufacturer of the tyre of the crash coach, its driver and his employer; resulting in the longest legal case in France.[112]
  • 8 July Soviet Union – A bus ignores a barrier at a railroad crossing and collides with a passenger train near Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russian SFSR, killing 27 people (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. The bus driver is injured slightly.[113]
  • 24 September – A truck carrying two unsecured 20,000-liter liquefied petroleum gas tanks overturned on New Phetchaburi Road, downtown Bangkok, Thailand. The explosions and resulting fires consumed 43 vehicles and many buildings in the area, killing 59 people and injuring 89.[114]
  • 26 July 1990 Canada – In the Rogers Pass a transport truck lost its load of steel pipes, which pierced a British Columbia bus carrying a dance troop to the Okanagon Peach Festival, killing the driver instantly and many young dancers and adults.[115]
  • 4 November South Korea – A bus carrying classmates of former President Chun Doo Hwan crashed into a reservoir near Inje after colliding with a truck, killing at least 21 people and injuring 20,.[116]
  • 5 November Italy – A bus carrying elderly vacationers from Arenzano to Gravellona Toce skidded off a bridge near Ovada killing 30 occupants and injuring many others.[117]
  • 9 November Netherlands – Almost at the same spot and with the same cause of the August 25, 1972 crash: in sudden dense fog on the A16 motorway west of Breda, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 people die and 28 are injured.[118]
  • 11 December – United States 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster: A 99 car pile-up due to fog on Interstate 75 near Calhoun, Tennessee results in 12 deaths and 42 injured.[119]

1991[]

  • 15 February – A trailer truck carrying dynamite explodes at , Phang Nga, Thailand killing 171 local villagers.[120]
  • 13 March UK – 1991 M4 Motorway crash: 10 people die in a 45 vehicle pile up in foggy conditions on the M4 motorway near Hungerford.
  • 8 June UK - 1991 M6 Motorway pile up: multiple vehicles collide on the M6 motorway in north west England in wet weather conditions.
  • 31 July United States – 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.[121]
  • 4 August Zimbabwe – Nyanga bus accident: A crowded bus carrying school children from Regina Coeli Mission in Nyanga loses control and crashes in Troutbeck, Manicaland, Zimbabwe, killing 91 people, including 82 children.
  • 7 August Austria – The brakes of a Hungarian tourist bus fail in Styria, killing 15 people and injuring 28.[76]
  • 29 November United States – 1991 Interstate 5 dust storm: A dust storm on Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California triggers a 164-vehicle pile up that leaves 17 people dead and 150 injured.[122][123]

1992[]

  • 19 August Spain – A bus carrying visitors from Barcelona to Seville Expo '92 falls down an embankment on the A7 highway near Torreblanca, killing 45 and injuring 11.[124]
  • 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.[125]

1993[]

  • 4 January Mexico– A tour bus carrying mostly American tourists from Cancun to Chichen Itza crashed into a utility pole and caught fire killing at least 24 passengers and injuring a further 23.[126]
  • 9 January Argentina – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in Santo Tomé, Corrientes, Argentina, killing 55 people and injuring 70.[127]
  • 7 April – At least 29 people were killed and 18 injured when a Turkish coach fell from a bridge into the Yantra River 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.[128][129]
  • 17 July Canada – A minibus carrying senior citizens from Vercheres, Quebec on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anthony of Padua near La Bouchette collided with a pick-up truck near Lac St. Jean killing 17 of 18 passengers as well as two occupants in the truck.[130]
  • 10 November – A fiery pile-up on autoroute A10 near Mirambeau, France, leaves 15 people dead and 53 injured.[131]
  • 10 November UK – A bus carrying Canadian and American tourists collided with a van and skidded off the M2 Motorway near Faversham killing 10 and injuring 36.[132]
  • 17 November UK – The M40 minibus crash leaves 12 children dead when their minibus collides with a maintenance vehicle near Warwick, England, causing new road security campaigns.

1994[]

1995[]

  • 3 January, Philippines – An overloaded bus misses a bridge and falls off a ravine in Echague town, killing at least 31 people and injuring 36 others.[133]
  • 12 March – A truck carrying benzene rammed a bus outside Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, killing 110 people.[134]
  • 16 June Spain – A bus carrying pensioners collided with a truck and a car near Sant Carles de la Rapita killing 11 and injuring 25.[135]
  • 10 July France – A bus carrying mostly Spanish students from Amsterdam to Barcelona slammed into a road barrier near Roquemaure, Gard killing 22 and injuring 31.[136]
  • 25 October United States – A train collided with a school bus at a grade crossing in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing 7 children and injuring 21."NTSB Report HAR-96/02".

1996[]

  • 10 February 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.[11]
  • 25 February Bolivia – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia, killing at least 35 people.[137]
  • 28 February Spain – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen, Spain, killing 29 people and injuring 17.[138]
  • 29 September Japan – A minivan carrying construction workers crashed at national highway route 9, Muraoka, Hyōgo, Japan, killing 10 people.[11]

1997[]

  • 14 January — A crowded city bus plunges into the Nile in Cairo, Egypt, killing 39 people and injuring 24.[139]
  • 19 January — A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab, India, killing 29 people and injuring 12.[140]
  • 10 March — 3 people killed and 60 injured in 160 vehicle collision on the M42 motorway due to fog.[141][142]
  • 8 May — 70 people heading to a wedding were killed when a truck plunged into a gorge in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh.[143]
  • 15 July – A bus carrying Japanese tourists crashed into another vehicle and caught fire near Toledo, Spain killing 10 and injuring an additional 4.[144]
  • 31 August — Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in a Paris underpass along with 2 other passengers.
  • 13 October — Les Éboulements bus crash in Quebec, Canada, results in 44 deaths when a bus plunges into a ravine, the worst bus crash in Canadian history.
  • 6 November — A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province, Cuba, killing at least 56 people.[145]
  • 27 November — At least 34 people drowned when their bus fell into a canal in Karnataka.[146]
  • 8 December — Twenty-two people were killed when a lorry collided with a minibus in central Rwanda.[147]

1998[]

  • 2 January — Six people were killed and two others were seriously injured when a bus and a jeep collided in state of Rajasthan[148]
  • 5 January — 43 people were killed and more than 60 seriously injured when a bus plunged down a steep slope in Nyanga district, Zimbabwe, after the brakes of a bus failed.[149]
  • 7 January — A Meru-Nairobi Kenyan Bus Service regular route bus lost control of the vehicle and plummeted down 100 feet (30 m) embankment into Nithi river, Kenya, killing 58 people, another 42 are injured.[150]
  • 28 February – Twenty people died when a school bus collided with a city bus at Ariapatti Vilakku, near Valandu in Tamil Nadu. Eleven student passengers on the school bus died, with the remaining nine being passengers on the city bus. Forty one passengers were injured.[151]
  • 9 March — At least 16 killed and 6 missing after their bus plunged into a flooded river in the mountainous southern region of Saudi-Arabia.[152]
  • 15 April — A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, killing 31 people, including 27 children.[153]
  • 26 April — At least 10 killed in bus crash in Province of Alicante.[154]
  • 5 May — At least 72 people drowned when the bus they were travelling in was swept into a river in Tanga Region.[155]
  • 15 July — At least 45 killed when a bus has plunged into a river in Arunachal Pradesh.[156]
  • 27 July — At least 19 killed, including 2 children and 60 injured, in a bus crash on Sunday.[when?][where?][157]
  • 12 August — A bus has crashed down a ravine in Montenegro and killed at least 18.[158]
  • 26 August — At least 17 people have been killed when a bus hit a tractor trailer in Uttar Pradesh.[159]
  • 30 August — At least 21 people were killed when a bus they were travelling in left the road and crashed down a hillside in western Nepal.[160]
  • 8 September — 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.[161]
  • 20 September — About 40 killed in bus-train collision in Turkmenistan.[162]
  • 27 September — At least 23 people died and 18 injured when a bus fell off a cliff near the southern town of Mayoc.[163]
  • 11 November — At least 40 people were killed when a bus plunged down a mountain gorge in Arunachal Pradesh.[164]
  • 14 December — At least 19 people were killed and 35 injured when a bus fell into a gorge in the Pithoragarh district.[165]
  • 23 December — At least 21 people killed when a bus collided with a large truck.[166]
  • 25 December — At least 19 people killed in Andhra Pradesh when a bus crashed into a train.[167]
  • 31 December — 100 cars crashed on an ice-slicked section of Interstate-75 in central Michigan, killing one and injuring 39.[168]

1999[]

  • 9 January — A bus carrying funeral mourners ran off the road and plunged into a river below at outskirt of Kazbegi, Khevi, Georgia, killing 38 people.[169]
  • 21 January — At least 22 were killed when a bus fell into a ravine near the town of Baguio on Wednesday night.[170]
  • 24 January — A bus carrying Hungarian skiers plunged off a hillside on the outskirts of Deutschlandsberg, Styria, Austria, killing 18 people and injuring 32.[171]
Main article: 1999 Deutschlandsberg bus crash
  • 31 January — At least 31 killed when a bus plunged off a bridge.[172][where?]
  • 26 February — A minibus east of Karlskoga, Sweden got stuck on a truck, was dragged along and finally caught fire. Seven children and two teachers, were killed.[173]
  • 15 March — The train City of New Orleans collides with a truck and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States, killing 11 people.
Main article: 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash
  • 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 fire near Kamena Vourla, Fthiotis. A huge explosion follows several minutes later killing 5 people and injuring 14.[174]
  • 9 May — A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing 22 people and injuring 24.[175]
  • 29 May — 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel in Austria.
  • 6 June – At least 8 people died on Saturday after a bus burst a tyre and overturned at Naivasha on the main Nairobi to Nakuru highway, in another crash 12 were killed when the bus collided with another vehicle.[176]
  • 8 June — At least 94 killed, including 11 children, after a bus plunged into a lake in Karnataka.[177]
  • 18 July — A -Shimla HRTC regular route bus carrying 90 passengers plunged into a 40-foot (12 m) deep gorge on the outskirts of Baghar, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 18 people. Another 55 are injured.[178]
  • 24 July — A trailer truck crashes into cars slowed by roadwork on Quebec Autoroute 20 near Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing 4 people and injuring 11.[179] A public investigation is launched.
  • 3 September — Dense fog on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario reduces visibility to less than a meter (3 ft) and causes an 87-vehicle pileup and fire that kills 8 people and injures 33. Many vehicles are fused together by the intense heat.[180]
  • 16 September — Two road crashes in Peru involving buses have killed at least 16 people and injured 48 others.[181]
  • 19 September — At least 20 people have died in a bus crash.[182][where?]
  • 22 September — At least 11 people have been killed in South Africa in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck.[183]
  • 28 September – A bus carrying British tourists crashed near Lydenburg, South Africa after its brakes failed killing 29 and injuring a further 7.[184]
  • 4 October — At least 19 people have been killed and 47 seriously injured after a bus crashed down a river embankment.[185]
  • 5 October — At least 45 people have been killed in a bus crash in the Indonesian province of West Java.[186][where?]
  • 9 October — A tourbus in Galilee, Israel, hit a slick spot on the road, rolled downhill; 17 killed.[187]
  • 25 October — A bus swerved to avoid hitting a cow and skidded off a mountain road into a deep gorge, killing 27 and injuring 47 on the way home from a temple in Northern India in Hoshiarpur district, 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Amritsar.[188]
  • 7 November — At least 50 people have died in a bus crash in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.[189]

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