a] Never mind the weather! What about the regular occurrence of
"MASS-MULTI-VEHICLE CRASHES"
b] Never mind the Global warming! What about the regular occurrence of
"CAR CRASHES that result in Gas-Tank explosions"--- as a Kid, I thought this was only in the movies & TV, that a car's fuel tank would "ALWAYS" explode!
Now it seems every car accident is accompanied by a fuel tank explosion. Is due to wider media coverage???
c] There is a MIS-PRINT on Wikipedia! [as of today 26 Dec 2012]:
List of road accidents 2010–2019
List of road accidents 2010?2019 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"List of road accidents records serious road accidents that caused a high death toll, occurred in unusual circumstances, or hold some other historical significance. The prevalence of bus accidents in t
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2010
February 13 — A power line broke in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, striking two buses and electrocuting 11 of the occupants.[1]
February 16 — A bus crashed and went down an embankment near the town of Massa, Italy. The accident killed three French people and 20 more were injured.[2]
February 17 — A bus laden with wedding guests crashed into a river in Jalaun District, India, killing at least 22 people with at least another 10 people unaccounted for.[3]
February 22 — Two buses collide head-on on the Panamerican Highway near Viru, Peru, killing 38.[4]
March 5 — A bus overturned near Phoenix, Arizona killing 6 and injuring 15 in the accident.[5]
March 18 — A crowded bus veered off a mountain road in Nepal and plunged into a river just west of the capital, Kathmandu, killing 24.[6]
March 27 — A crash between a van and a tractor-trailer on Interstate 65 south of Munfordville, Kentucky, kills 11.[7]
March 31 — A coach crashed into a river after falling from a bridge in a snow storm in Lanark, Scotland, killing a 17 year old girl and injuring 44 passengers.[8]
April 12 — A multiple-vehicle crash on a rain-slicked freeway north of Los Angeles kills 5.[9]
April 16 — A bus fell into a river on Haramosh Peak, Pakistan. The accident killed 12 and injured 7 more.[10]
May 23 — A truck travelling in the wrong direction on an expressway in China's north-east collided head-on with a bus. The collision occurred on a section of expressway that was undergoing maintenance in the city of Fuzin in Liaoning province. Thirty-two people were killed and another twenty-one people were injured and sent to hospital.[11]
July 2 — A fuel tanker overturned and exploded, unleashing a fireball that devastated the town of Sange, in South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The preliminary death toll placed the number of dead at 220, while another 111 were injured.[12]
July 3 — A bus fell from a bridge near Incheon International Airport in Korea, killing 12 people.[13]
July 11 — A traffic accident, near Inishowen, in Ireland killed eight people.[14]
July 18 — Fourteen people were killed and twelve injured after a bus fell off a cliff in northern Albania, near the city of Durres.[15]
August 12 — Fifty-eight die when lorry plunges into Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[16]
August 18 — In the Philippines, a fully packed bus plunged off a mountain highway into a 100 foot (≈30.5 m) ravine killing 41 people.[17]
September 26 — A Polish tourist bus returning from Spain careered into a bridge on a rain-soaked German motorway, killing 13 people.[18]
October 10 — Twelve people were killed and more than fifty injured in a highway crash that involved two buses, three cars, and a van at the North-South Expressway, near the Malacca-Negeri Sembilan state border, Malaysia.[19][20]
October 12 — Forty-five people were killed in the Ukraine when a bus crossed a railway near Marhanets against a red light and was hit by a train.[21]
October 19 — Eighteen people killed when a passenger bus collided with a truck, burst into flames, and flipped over in central Mexico.[22]
October 25 — Twenty-one people were killed when a bus collided with a fuel truck in northern Uganda.[23]
December 20 — Twenty-seven people, mostly Thai tourists, were killed when the double-decked coach bus they were traveling in crashed at the Second East-West Highway of the Perak-Pahang state border near Cameron Highlands, in the state of Pahang, Malaysia.
[edit]2011
March 12 — World Wide Tours bus crash: A bus crashed on Interstate 95 in the Bronx, New York. Fifteen people were killed.[24]
April 8 — Due to very low visibility in a dust/sand storm, 80 cars piled up in a mass crash on German Autobahn A19, 30 of these caught fire. 8 people died, 131 were injured.[25]
August 20 — At least 35 people have been killed and several more injured in a bus crash in southern Afghanistan. [26]
September 15 — Rodovia dos Imigrantes Highway at São Paulo, Brazil. 300 vehicles were involved in an accident due to heavy fog, causing several injuries and killing one person.[27]
October 12 — Due to fog and smoke causing low visibility, a collision involving 23 trucks, 11 buses and 17 cars occurs on Route 68 near Casablanca, Chile, 67 km west of Santiago, in Valparaíso Region. At least 73 injuries and 5 people dead.[28]
November 4 — 2011 M5 motorway crash. At around 8.30 pm a 34-vehicle crash near Taunton, England on the M5 motorway. 7 dead and 51 injured.[29][30]
November 26 — The team bus of the Étoile Filante football team crashed. 6 dead and 25 injured.[31]
December 3 — A truck collided with a bus in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. The crash killed 33 people.[32]
2012
January 16 — A truck collided with other vehicles and street vendors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing 29 people and injuring 67.[33]
January 17 — Forty-three people were killed in Ethiopia when a bus plunged 80 metres (≈260 ft) into a gorge north of the capital Addis Ababa.[34]
January 20 — At least nine people were killed and eight others injured when a minibus collided with a truck in western Ukraine's Rovno Region, the emergency ministry said Friday on its website. [35]
January 29 — Eleven people were killed in multi-vehicle pile-up on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Florida. Fog and smoke from a bush fire reducing visibility were given as the cause.[36]
February 3 — Twelve people died in a terrible traffic accident caused by a collision of seven cars on the road between Balad an Samarra districts in Salahuddin province. [37]
February 4 — Twenty-six people killed in a road accident in Kenya involving two mini buses along the Kisumu- Kakamega Highway. Blamed on a police road block at a blind spot at night.[38]
February 6 — Eleven people killed in a road accident between a van carrying migrant workers and a transport truck near Stratford, Ontario.[39]
February 12 — Ten people are killed in Kenya when a mini bus plunges into a ditch along the Nairobi - Nakuru highway.[40]
March 02 — Nine students are killed and more than forty injured when a truck looses control near Bungoma, Kenya and rams into a crowd.[41]
March 13 — Sierre coach crash: 28 people were killed, 22 of whom were children, and 24 injured, when a coach ran into a tunnel wall near Sierre in Switzerlkand. There were 52 people on board at the time.[42]
March 24 — In a collision between a lorry and a coach on the M5 motorway in England, a coach passenger died and 39 other people were injured, two critically including the driver of the lorry who subsequently died.[43][44]
April 20 — A trailer truck collides with an overloaded passenger bus in Alamo, Veracruz, killing 43 people, and injuring 18 others.[45]
April 29 — Seven people were killed, thirty-eight injured, when a coach ran into a highway wall in Gunma Prefecture in Japan. [46]
May 8 — Sixteen people were killed in a road accident in the central Karaganda region of Kazakhstan.[47]
May 21 — At least 11 Albanian university students lost their lives when their bus plunged into a gorge near the town of Elbasan.[48]
June 10 — Eight people were killed and five others wounded in an accident after the bus they were travelling in overturned in western Farah province on Sunday. [49]
June 23 — Eight Czechs were killed in a bus crash in Croatia.[50]
June 26 — A triple collision between a truck and two passenger bus causing 12 dead and 53 injured in Chubut Province, Argentina.
July 7 — A bus crash in northeastern Ukraine kills at least 14 Russian pilgrims.[51]
July 12 — At least 121 people are killed and 75 others are injured when a road tanker overturns and later explodes in Okobie, Nigeria.
July 15 — At least 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash near the town of Parasi, Nepal.[52]
July 15 — At least 15 killed in Kashmir bus crash.[53]
July 16 — At least nine people were killed in a bus accident in Nepal.[54]
July 22 — Fifteen killed when a Ford F250 pickup truck they were riding in collided with two trees in Goliad, Texas. Only the driver, a Mexican, carried identification; the rest were apparently illegal Hispanics. Nine other passengers survived.[55]
July 30 — Nine people have been killed and one person seriously injured after a train and a minibus collided in the Polish town of Bratoszewice.[56]
August 5 — Seven people were killed when two cars collided on a highway in Russia’s central Novgorod region.[57]
August 9 — At least 11 dead and 39 injured in bus accident in Ungheni District, Moldova.[58]
August 9 — At least eight dead in road accident in Tulcea County, Romania.[59]
August 11 — Fifty-two killed when a bus plunges into a gorge in India.[60]
August 26 — Thirty-six people killed when a double-decker sleeper bus and a tanker loaded with highly-flammable methanol collide in northern China.
September 4 — A passenger bus traveling between Marrakesh and Ouarzazate crashes in a ravine in southern Morocco, killing at least 42 people and injuring 25.[61]
September 8 — A tractor is hit by a train in Covasna County, Romania, killing eight passengers in the tractor trailer.[62]
September 14 — At least 50 people have been killed after a bus collided with a fuel tanker in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni.[63]
September 14 — At least four Russian tourists were killed after their bus overturned in northern Greece.[64]
September 16 — At least 10 people were killed including a child when the minibus collided with a truck on a highway in Stavropol Region.[65]
September 17 — At least 13 people, including 10 Indians are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.[66]
September 22 — Five teenagers and two adults were killed and three injured when a car slammed into a bus stop in western Moscow on a Saturday.[67]
October 8 — Twenty-one members of the Egyptian security forces were killed in a vehicle accident on the Sinai Peninsula.[68]
October 13 — Eight people died and one other was seriously injured in the collision between a truck and a van in Arad County, Romania.[69]
November 1 — At least 22 people are reported to have been killed and 111 injured when a fuel truck crashed and exploded in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh.[70]
November 4 — A minibus was hit by a train and killed four people in Anenii Noi District, Moldova.[71]
November 16 — Twenty-nine people were killed when a Metro Mass bus and a Benz bus had a head-on collision at Kogni, Ghana on the Tamale-Bolgatanga road.[72]
November 19 — At least 3 killed, several injured by car crashing into bus stop in Moscow [73]
November 22 — Two people were killed and 120 were injured in a 100 car pile up on Interstate 10 just outside of Beaumont, Texas. [74]
November 23 — Four people were killed and seven others injured when the minibus they were riding in collided with a car in Dnipropetrovsk region. In another accident in Luhansk region, two people died and seven others were injured after a bus carrying 10 people went off the road and fell into a ditch. [75]
November 24 — Six people have died as a regional train slammed into a car that was crossing the tracks near the southern city of Cosenza. [76]
December 17 — At least 27 people have been killed and 15 injured in a bus accident in Colombia.[77]
December 18 — A truck veered out of control in Sokoto State and plunged into a river, killing 27 men on Monday. [78]
December 20 - At least 33 people were killed and 24 injured when two inter-city buses collided in Sudan late Wednesday, police said. A passenger bus and a minibus crashed near the community of El Kamlien, about halfway between Khartoum and Wad Medani, AFP reported. [79]
December 24 — At least 11 children killed after van falls into pond in Jiangxi. [80]
December 25 — Two boys, aged 4 and 10, and a woman have died in a crash on the M6 in Staffordshire. [81]
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See also
List of people who died in road accidents
List of road accidents
List of road accidents 2000-2009
List of OECD countries by traffic-related death rate
List of motor vehicle deaths in U.S. by year
List of motor vehicle deaths in Japan by year
List of bridge disasters
List of rail accidents (2000–present) - includes level crossing accidents.
List of level crossing accidents
