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List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those with a high death toll, possess an article of their own, or which hold some historical significance. For crashes in which famous people died, please refer to List of people who died in road accidents. This list does include acts of terrorism against road targets, such as buses.

• August, 1750 – George Frideric Handel was seriously injured in a carriage accident between The Hague and Haarlem.^[1]
• 1771 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot crashed his steam engine powered vehicle into a brick wall in what is believed to have been the first automobile accident.

• August 31, 1869 – Mary Ward was thrown from, and fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins, thought to be the first ever recorded automobile death.^[2]
• 17 August 1896 – Bridget Driscoll is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car accident.
• 25 February, 1899 – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer, are the first recorded driver and passenger fatalities respectively. They were thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, London.
• 13 September, 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person killed by a car in the United States.

• February, 1902 – a stagecoach-train collision in West Nyack, New York. Eight students returning from a night basketball game in a horse-drawn stagecoach were killed by a train, after getting trapped between manually-operated railroad crossing gates. First train-school vehicle collision in the United States.

• 1963 – 15 die in Northland, New Zealand, when a bus left the road and hit a pole. Worst road accident in New Zealand history.

• March 22 – Congers, New York, five Nyack High School students killed and 44 injured when a train hits a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident led New York State to require school vehicles stop at all railroad crossings.

• 4 February 1974 – 12 people, including nine soldiers are killed in the IRA's M62 coach bombing in Yorkshire, England.

• 27 May 1975 – Dibble's Bridge bus crash, England, bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge, killing 38.

• June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight and injuring 18. ^[3]
• July 9 – An army truck and a bus collide near Moscow, killing 15 Soviet soldiers. ^[4]
• August 25 – A car knocks a billboard onto a group of people in Armenia. Eight women died. ^[5]

• 3 March, 1980 – 23 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. ^[6]
• 9 May, 1980 – 35 are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida, after a freighter collided with a bridge pier, knocking down over 1200 ft. of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.

• 3 November, 1982 – Hundreds are killed in the Salang tunnel fire in Central Afghanistan, following a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as high as 2,000 dead.

• July 25, 1983 - A bus plunges into a river near Oryol, Russia, killing 10 people from West Germany, one from Austria, and injuring six people. ^[7]
• Connecticut Turnpike - fatal toll plaza collision

• 22 September, 1985 – School bus rolls over in Leiah, Pakistan, killing 30 children^[8]

• 2 March, 1987 – A cement truck crashes into a bus in the Caucasus, killing eight and injuring nine. ^[9] The bus was traveling from Cherkessk to Vladikavkaz (then Ordzhonikidze). ^[10]
• 13 July, 1987 – Tour bus collides with truck and car 30 miles west of Moscow, killing seven, including four Belgians, and injuring six. ^[11]
• 20 October, 1987 – A bus and a car collide during a heavy fog 20 miles outside of Moscow. Both dropped into Desna River, and at least 11 of the passengers on the bus died. ^[12]

• 14 May, 1988 – 27 die in the Carrollton bus disaster near Carrollton, Kentucky after a collision with a drunk driver driving the wrong way on Interstate 71.
• 15 August, 1988 – Bus plows into a concrete wall in a tunnel 60 miles outside of Bergen, Norway, killing 12 and injuring 19.
• 22 September, 1988 – Bus falls into a ravine near Simla, India, 35 people die^[13]
• December 4, 1988 – 13 die and 36 are injured when a bus and a truck collide on a highway between Tepic and Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

• January 17, 1989 – 51 die and 110 are injured when a bus collides with a train at a level crossing 45 miles south of Columbo, Sri Lanka.
• June 9, 1989 – 31 bus passengers and 14 people are injured when a bus drives onto a railway crossing in Rostov Oblast, Russia and is hit by a train.
• October 20, 1989 – 21 die in the Grafton bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Grafton in Australia.
• 12 December, 1989 – 35 are killed in the Kempsey bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Kempsey.

• 22 January, 1990 – Karak Expressway, Malaysia 15 die in a collision between FRU riot police vehicles, tankers lorry, passenger bus and 10 cars.
• 8 July, 1990 – A bus ignores a barrier at a railroad crossing and collides with a passenger train near Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia, killing 27 (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. The bus driver is slightly injured. ^[14]
• 22 November, 1990 – A bus ignores a red light and collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Donetsk, Ukraine, killing 19 and wounding 13, though the bus driver is not injured.
• 28 December, 1990 – A truck carrying 15 prisoners collides with a bus in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, killing two bus passengers, a guard, and three prisoners. Eleven people are injured.
• 30 December, 1990 – 56 die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway between Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don in Russia, USSR.

• 15 February, 1991 – In Southern Thailand a truck carrying dynamite to a stone quarry suddenly and catastrophically exploded, killing between 122 and 180 villagers.^[15]
• 23 August, 1991 – A bus veers off a mountain road near Przemysl, Poland, killing eight and injuring 16.

• 18 November, 1993 – Leamington Spa, United Kingdom Eleven die in a collision between a lorry and a school bus.

• 25 October, 1995 – Fox River Grove level crossing accident, Illinois, United States kills seven when a school bus is hit by a train.

• & 24 March, 1999 – 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire.
• 3 September, 1999 – 8 people died and 33 were injured when dense fog enveloped Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario, reducing visibility to less than a meter (3 feet). 87 vehicles were destroyed, and many were fused together due to the intense heat. ^[16]
• 9 October, 1999 – 17 people killed when bus falls into a ravine near Gollany Junction in northern Israel.
• 20 November, 1999 – Ilorin, Nigeria, 22 people killed in fiery collision between two buses.^[17]

• 29 March, 2000 – Seventy four people died in a collision between two buses in Kerichko, Kenya.^[18]
• 28 August, 2000 – Abuja bus crash riots, Abuja, Nigeria, Seventy people are killed in a bus pile up in Abuja. The next day, related protest riots kill four more people.
• 12 October, 2000 – Owerri bus crash, Nigeria, Fifty people die when bus collides with fuel tanker and tanker explodes.
• 6 November, 2000 – Lagos tanker disaster, Lagos, Nigeria, Between 100 and 200 people are killed when a petrol tanker loses control, slams into a traffic jam and explodes.
• 24 November, 2000 – Benin City bus crash, Nigeria, Sixty people die when bus falls into a ravine.

• 27 January, 2001 – Five killed in car hit by a train at Gerogery, New South Wales .
• 16 February, 2001 – 13 people killed in the Gracanica bus bombing in Kosovo.
• 28 February, 2001 – 10 killed in the Selby rail crash, when a driver ran off the road and down a railway embankment into the path of a train.
• March 4, 2001 – 70+ killed when a bridge collapsed as a bus was crossing the Douro in Portugal, in which was known as Hintze Ribeiro disaster.
• 1 April, 2001 – A bus and a car collided on a bridge in Kenya and fell into the Sabaki River.^[19]
• 2 December, 2001 – 15 die in the Haifa bus 16 bombing in Israel
• 14 December, 2001 – 52 pilgrims killed in Aqaba bus crash in Jordan.^[20]

• 23 April 2002 – A steamroller falls off a truck and crushes a bus 70 miles north of Ufa, Russia, killing 14 people. ^[21]
• 8 May 2002 – 14 people die in the suicide bombing of a bus in Karachi.
• 26 May, 2002 – 14 die in the The I-40 Bridge Disaster on Interstate 40, near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma when a barge collided with a bridge support, causing a 580-foot section of the bridge to plunge into the Arkansas River.
• 18 June 2002 – 19 are killed in the Patt Junction bus bombing.
• 19 July 2002 – Over 70 die when a bus is hit by a runaway fuel tanker at Rutoto in Uganda. ^[22]
• 18 August 2002 – A bus falls into a ravine and overturns near Yantikovo, Chuvashia, Russia, killing 21 and injuring 37. ^[23]
• 21 October 2002 – 14 are killed in the Bus 841 bombing.
• 16 November 2002 – A bus crash in Cuesta del Totoral in Northern Argentina kills over fifty people.^[24]
• 21 November 2002 – 12 are killed by the Jerusalem bus 20 bombing.

• 5 March 2003 – 18 died in the Haifa bus 37 bombing, Israel.
• 1 May 2003, 80 people drown in the Bethlehem bus crash, when the driver drove off a dam and into a reservoir.
• 4 June 2003, 30 people die in the Kasganj bus disaster, when a bus attempted to cross a closed level crossing in India and was sliced in half by a train.
• 11 June 2003 – 17 are killed in the Jerusalem bus 14A bombing.
• 10 July 2003 – 21 killed in the Tuen Mun Road bus accident, Hong Kong, when a bus plunged off a motorway viaduct after being hit by lorry. Worst road accident in history of the Territory.
• 16 July 2003 – 10 killed and 63 injured at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market by George Russell Weller
• 19 August 2003 – 24 people are killed in the Jerusalem bus 2 bombing.
• 10 September 2003 – A bus was hit a high speed in heavy rain near the city of Valencia, Venezuela, killing 34.^[25]
• 23 November 2003 – 14 passengers were killed in a bus tragedy at kilometre 63 of Lipis-Merapoh road (Federal route 8) near Merapoh, Pahang.

• 9 January, 2004 – Bhakkar bus crash, Pakistan, at least 56 die as bus rolls into a ravine.^[26]
• 29 January 2004 – 11 are killed in the Jerusalem bus 19 bombing.
• 22 February 2004 – A bus near Fortaleza in Brazil tumbled off a dam into a reservoir, killing over 40 people^[27]
• 19 March 2004 – 22 people killed in the Äänekoski bus disaster, Finland.
• 16 June, 2004 – Islamabad, Pakistan, at least 50 die in collision between bus and tractor.^[28]

• 24 June 2004 – A tanker carrying 17,000 litres of petrol collided with a bus in Zahedan, near Bam in Iran. 90 people were killed.^[29]

• 26 August 2004 – Wiehltal bridge fire destroys bridge in most expensive accident

• 3 February 2005 – 55 wedding guests die in the Nagpur level crossing disaster, India.
• April 2005 – Nine killed in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 21 April 2005 – 31 war veterans die in bus crash on the old Ho Chi Minh trail, Vietnam.^[30]
• 27 April, 2005 – over 50 people are killed in the Polgahawela level crossing collision when a bus is hit by train.
• 9 May, 2005 – Biaora level crossing accident, India Eight die when an ox-cart is hit by train.
• 18 May 2005 – Waikato, New Zealand, Nine are killed in mini-bus - logging truck collision. Second worst road accident in New Zealand history.
• 22 May, 2005 – 35 are killed in the Jauja bus disaster, Peru when a bus plunged off bridge.
• 23 May 2005 – County Meath, Republic of Ireland, Five schoolgirls die when an overcrowded school bus crashed. ^[31]
• 7 June 2005 – 38 people killed in the Badarmude bus explosion, when a bus struck a land mine.
• 4 August, 2005 – A bus collides with a truck in Kurgan Oblast, Russia, killing 11 people, including six Germans. ^[32]
• 23 September 2005 – 23 elderly people died when their bus suddenly explodes as they flee Hurricane Rita near Bellaire, Texas.

• 23 January 2006 – Two buses collide head on in Sao Paulo State in Brazil, killing 33 people.^[33]
• 22 March 2006 – Twelve Americans die when a tour bus falls into a canyon near Arica, Chile. ^[34]
• 17 April 2006 – 57 people died in the Maltrata bus crash in Central Mexico.
• 20 April, 2006 – At least 47 die when bus falls into a lake at Sarupeta, India^[35]
• 16 May, 2006 – At least 35 die when two buses collide head-on near Kumasi, Ghana^[36]
• 26 May 2006 – A crashed fuel tanker leaked patrol onto a roadway in Tega, Benin, which exploded as local people tried to collect it, killing between 54 and 75. ^[37]
• 15 June 2006 – 64 people are killed in the Kabithigollewa bus bombing, when a Sri Lankan bus was destroyed by two land mines laid by the Tamil Tigers. ^[38]
• 15 June 2006 – A bus carrying 45 miners from the Uchucchacua mine to Lima in Peru fell into a ravine, killing 28 people. ^[39]
• 30 June 2006 – 11 pilgrims to the annual St Anne’s Feast were killed in a bus tragedy at North-South Expressway near Nibong Tebal, Penang in Malaysia.
• 8 July 2006 – Thirteen die and eight are injured when a bus plunges down a ravine in Uttaranchal, India. ^[40]
• 23 August 2006 – 11 Israeli tourists killed in a controversial bus accident between Nueba and Taba in the Sinai Peninsula. ^[41]
• 6 September 2006 – Nine people die and more than 40 are injured when a bus bound for Saudi Arabia overturns in Egypt. ^[42]
• 21 September 2006 – Nine people die and 23 are injured when a bus plunges into a canal 50 miles southeast of Karachi, Pakistan. ^[43]
• 24 September 2006 – Forty-seven people die when a bus crashes into a wall on a road in Papallacta, Ecuador. ^[44]
• 25 September 2006 – A bus traveling from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma, Tanzania overturns while speeding near Dar es Salaam, killing 16 and injuring 41. ^[45]
• 30 September, 2006 – Four die when an overpass collapses onto Autoroute 19 in Laval, Quebec, Canada. See Wikinews.
• 1 October, 2006 – Thirty killed as a bus falls off a bridge into the Jialing River in Chongqing, China. ^[46]
• 3 October, 2006 – Twelve killed and 16 injured when a truck and a bus collide near Menbej, in northwest Syria. ^[47]
• 8 October, 2006 – Forty-two people die when a bus falls down a ravine during foggy and rainy conditions in Chiantla, Guatemala. ^[48]
  • 8 October, 2006 – A double-decker bus crashes into a truck in northern Argentina, killing 12 people. ^[49]
• 9 October, 2006 – Twelve people helping in Typhoon Xangsane relief efforts are killed in a van accident in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. ^[50]
• 15 October, 2006 – Two tires burst on a bus traveling from Lusaka, Zambia to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which then hits a tree and overturns in southern Tanzania. Eleven die and 25 are injured. ^[51]
• 15 October, 2006 – Two buses and a truck collide in Sivas Province, Turkey, killing 13 and injuring more than 20. ^[52]
• 19 October, 2006 – A bus overcrowded with passengers plunges into a reservoir in Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 56 people. ^[53]
• 21 October, 2006 – A bus plunges off a mountain road between Sucre and Cochabamba in Bolivia, killing 29 and injuring 25. ^[54]
• 23 October, 2006 – A bus catches fire in downtown Panama City, killing 18 people. ^[55]
• 25 October, 2006 – A bus falls off the road and into the Teesta River in Sikkim, India, killing 25 and injuring 45. ^[56]
• 26 October, 2006 – A bus falls into a ravine and catches fire near Rohri, Pakistan, killing at least 20 people. ^[57]
• 26 October, 2006 – A bus crashes down an embankment near Arequipa, Peru, killing 20 and injuring 12. ^[58]
• 28 October, 2006 – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Nepal, killing 42 and injuring 43. ^[59]
• 29 October, 2006 – A bus collides with an oil truck near Multan, Pakistan, killing 22 and injuring 23. ^[60]
• 31 October, 2006 – A bus falls into a river in Enugu State, Nigeria, killing 18 people. ^[61]
• 31 October, 2006 – Floods sweep away a minibus traveling in Diyarbakir Province, Turkey, killing 14 people. ^[62]
• 1 November, 2006 – Two buses collide in Sirajganj District, Bangladesh, killing 18 and wounding 30. ^[63]

• List of bridge disasters
• List of rail accidents - includes level crossing accidents.
• List of level crossing accidents
• Accidents

• ~2,000 – Salang tunnel fire, 1982
• 100-200 – Lagos tanker disaster, 2000
• 80 – Bethlehem bus crash, 2003
• 57 – Maltrata bus crash, 2006
• 55 – Nagpur level crossing disaster, 2005
• 50 – Polgahawela level crossing collision, 2005
• & 39 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, 1999
• 38 – Badarmude bus explosion, 2005
• 35 – Kempsey bus crash, 1989
• 30 – Kasganj level crossing disaster, 2002
• 27 – Carrollton bus disaster (1988)
• 23 – Äänekoski bus disaster, 2004
• 21 – Grafton bus crash, 1989
• 18-21 Les Éboulements (Québec) a bus fell off in a descending curve into a river killing 18-21 persons if it's not more , on Canadian Thanksgiving Day or Colombus Day 1997
• 15 – 1990 Karak Highway crash
• 14 – 2003 Merapoh bus tragedy
• 14 – 2002 Karachi bus bombing
• 14 – The I-40 Bridge Disaster, 2002
• 13 – Gracanica bus bombing, 2001
• 11 – 2006 Nibong Tebal bus crash
• 10 – Selby rail crash, 2001
• 8 – Biaora level crossing accident, 2005
• 7 – Fox River Grove level crossing accident,1995
• 7 – Borung Highway collision, Donald - driver ignors stop sign at poorly designed intersection and causes head-on collision, (2006)

• Partial list of Highway disasters
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