List of traffic collisions (before 2000)

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List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those which took a high death toll, occurred in unusual circumstances, or hold some other historical significance. For crashes in which famous people died, please refer to List of people who died in road accidents. The prevalence of bus accidents in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency.

This article covers road accidents up through the year 1999.

• See List of road accidents 2000-2009

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
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1700s

• 1771 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's second steam-powered vehicle is widely believed 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.

1800s

• August 31, 1869 – Mary Ward is thrown from and falls under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins, thought to be the first ever recorded automobile death.
• 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 are 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.

1940s

1941

• October – A Royal Air Force bus crashes into a lorry and catches fire near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, killing 9 airmen and injuring 13.

1944

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

1947

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

1948

• January – A bus skids into a bus queue at Bargeddie, near Glasgow, Scotland, killing 8 people and injuring 12.

1950s

1950

• February 11 – A Takase-Kumamoto Kyūshū Sanko regular route bus plunges into pond 40 feet below at Matsuo, Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan, killing 22, and injuring 18.
• May – A bus and a tram collide in Glasgow, killing 7 people and injuring 43.
• November 7 – A regular route bus plunges 240 feet into the Mononobe river, Mirabu, eastern Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan, killing 33; another 24 are injured.

1951

• July 15 – A Shimokawai-Chubutenryu regular route bus plunges off the Harada bridge, Tenryu River, Urakawa, northwestern Shizuoka, Japan, killing 24.
• December 4 – Gillingham bus disaster: A bus plows into a column of marching marine cadets in Gillingham, Kent, England killing 24 boys and injuring 18.

1954

• 29 September – The brakes and gear box of a Belgian tourist bus fail on the downhill slope of the Cauberg, near Valkenburg aan de Geul. The out of control vehicle hits a pedestrian, then a monument and a building. 12 people are killed instantly, 7 (including the pedestrian) die in hospital.
• 12 November – The brakes of a Reunionese bus fail on the downhill slope of Plateau-Caillou, in Saint-Paul. 27 people are killed, 23 instantly.

1958

• 28 February – Prestonsburg bus disaster: A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a 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 in 1976.

1959

• 20 June – A crowded bus collides with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen, West Germany killing 45, the worst bus accident in German history.

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, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, killing 30 and injuring another 18.

1963

• – February 7 – A bus in Northland, New Zealand leaves the road and hits a pole, killing 15. This is considered the worst road accident in New Zealand history.
• – April 7 – A bus returning from an African church meeting plunges into the Tiva River, Mitaboni, Machakos, Kenya, killing at least 72.
• – June 10 – An open truck carrying 49 Boy Scouts and leaders stalls while climbing a hill enroute to Hole in the Rock (road), Utah, loses its brakes, and plunges into Carcass Wash, killing 13.

1965

• January 1 A Huancayo-Ayacucho regular route bus plunges 300 feet into a ravine of the Mantaro River, Peru, killing 31.
• January 10 – 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 and injuring 22.
• February 3 – A regular route bus plunges 300 feet off a cliff along the Mexico-Ciudad Juárez expressway on the outskirts of Zacatecas, Mexico, killing 25 and injuring 40.
• February 10 – A truck carrying 66 people plunged into a canal on the outskirts of al-Ayyat, Egypt, killing 36. The truck driver is arrested on suspicion of driving without a license.
• February 18 – A Naples-Salerno regular route bus plunges 50 feet into a ravine on the Naples-Pompeii expressway near Mount Vesuvius, Italy, killing 17 and injuring 60.
• November 1 – A crowded trolley bus plunges into Nile River on the outskirts of Dokki, Giza, Egypt, killing 74.
• December 6 – Two trucks carrying United Nation Peace Keeping Force workers collide at Sotouboua, Togo. Togolese authorities claim 125 are killed.

1966

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

1967

• December 15 – Silver Bridge collapses under heavy traffic in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, killing 46.

1968

• January 6 – A passenger train hits a low-loader transporter and derails, killing 11 and injuring 45 in Hixon, England.
• August 18 – Due to heavy rain, two charter buses crash into the Hida River on national highway route 41 in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, killing 104.

1969

• June 6 – 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.
• June 21 – An overcrowded vehicle carrying 35 workers crashes at Mahradah, Al-Amam, Syria, killing 25 people.
• July 18 – The Chappaquiddick incident. Although only one person was killed when a car drove off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, the crash was notable because the driver was Senator Ted Kennedy, and a political scandal resulted.

1970s

1970

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

1971

• 10 May – A crowded bus plunges off a 30 foot cliff, crashing into a reservoir on the outskirts of Kapyong, northeastern Gyeonggi, South Korea, killing 75.
• 10 May – Two local buses collide head-on on the Pinotepa National Highway, Florencio Villarveal, Guerrero, Mexico, killing 30; another 30 are injured.
• September 5 – A Masan-Jinhae regular route bus carrying 30 passengers onboard, where crashed 50-yard off a mountain road at outskirt of Jinhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, killing 17 and injuring 16.
• September 17 – A bus carrying Canadian tourlist head on collided with a truck at outskirt of Valdepenas, Ciudad Real, Spain, killing 17.
• November 5 – A local bus plunged a 900 feet-high mountain slope at Yeongdo-gu, Busan, South Korea, killing 26 and injuring 30.
• November 8 – A local bus head on collided with atruck at outskirt of Korat, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, killing 27 and injuring 20.
• December 18 – A trailer truck carrying local workers plunged into irrigation canal at outskirt of Aswan, Egypt, killing 50.

1972

• February 15 – A Batangas-Manila Laguna transit bus collided with a truck, and plunged at Barrio Calamba, Lagana, Philippines, in an incident caused by exceed speed, killing 13; another 41 are injured.
• February 18 – A crowded bus carrying 90 students overturns and plunges into an irrigation canal at Benha, Kfar Saad, Egypt, killing 77.
• March 22 – In Congers, New York, 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 led New York State to require school vehicles to stop at all railroad crossings.
• 25 August – 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. After this accident, a fog warning system was installed along the route. Nevertheless, almost 20 years later a similar accident happened.
• September 23 – According to the National Police Agency of Japan and Japanese Fuji Television Network, an Akakura-Togakushi regular route bus carrying 82 passengers onboard plunged into a ravine at Shinano, Nagano, Japan. The NPA reports that this road is single lane. 15 are killed, and another 67 are injured.

1973

• January 1 – A bus carrying Condor soccer club of Curico players and fans skidded on a sharp curve and plunged into the Chimbarongo River, on the outskirts of San Fernando, Colchagua, Chile. The bus was returning from a Chilean soccer league second division match; 35 were killed in the crash.
• July 18 – A bus carrying Belgian tourists plunges into a ravine in Vizille, France, killing 43.
• October 13 – A regular route bus plunged off a bridge on the outskirts of Hazaribash, Bihar, India, killing 74.
• November 10 – A truck carrying 60 workers plunged off a steep road on the outskirts of Doi Inthanon, Chiang Mai, Thailand, killing 40 and injuring 20.

1974

• 28 July – A crowded bus and a truck collide near Belém, Brazil, killing 69.
• September 8 – A bus returning from religious pilgrimage ran off a road and plunged 750 feet into a canyon on the outskirts of La Vina, Santa Fe, Argentina, killing 32.

1975

• January 1 – A charter bus carrying 62 passengers plunged 100 feet into Aoki Lake, Omachi, Nagano, Japan, killing 24.
• March 1 – A Nairobi-Mombasa regular route bus blast at downtown Nairobi, Kenya, killing 26, injuring another 60, was blamed on Kenyan People Liberation Front, a terrorist group.
• April 2 – A bus carrying French pilgrims plunged 120 feet into the Ramache River along the A58 highway, Vizille, Rhone-Alpes, France, killing 28, and injuring 17.
• April 20 – At least 27 vehicles crashed within 15 minutes on the Naples-Caserta Autostrada del Sole expressway on the outskirts of Naples, Italy, killing 11 and injuring 53.
• 27 May – Dibbles Bridge bus crash, England: a bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge near Hebden, North Yorkshire, killing 32.
• June 15 – A bus carrying elderly tourists plunged 120 feet into a ravine on the outskirts of Villach, Carinthia, Austria, killing 21 and injuring 23.
• July 29 – 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 and injuring 30.
• 13 September – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Costa Rica, killing 48.

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; another 14 are injured.
• May 21 – A bus carrying the Yuba City High School a cappella choir flies off I-680 in California, killing 28 students and a teacher.
• October 31 – A tourist bus head-on collide with a mini bus at outskirt og Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, in an incident caused by tourist bus driver has brake failure, killing 34 and injuring 25.
• November 14 – A bus carrying municipal election candidate and supporters has plunged into river near ferry terminal at Manaus-Itacoatiara expressway, Uruara, Para, Brazil, killing 38.
• November 15 – A bus swept by flash flood in Tsoaing River, Thaba Pechela, Mafeteng, Lesotho, killing at least 90.
• November 21 – A mentally school bus returning from Edward Seguin Children Medical Center's meeting, plunged into Rhone River, outskirt of Lyon, France, at least 14 killed.

1977

• April 3 – A crowded bus skidded off the road, and plunged into irrigation Kassed Canal where runa parallel to the road at outskirt of Tanta, Nile Delta, Egypt, killing 19.
• June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight and injuring 18.
• August 11 – According to the Japanese National Police Agency and NHK television, a charter bus plunged 120 feet into a ravine at Nagatoro bridge, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan, killing 11; another 39 are injured.

1978

• January 1 – A truck carrying many passengers collided head-on with a bus on the outskirts of Nong Bua Daeng, Chaiyaphum, Thailand, killing 25; another 86 are injured.
• January 3 – A Villavicencio-Bogotá regular route bus plunged 130 feet off a cliff on the outskirts of Quetame, Oriente, Colombia, killing 30; another 16 are injured.
• March 9 – A Brasilia-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.
• July 11 – Los Alfaques Disaster: in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, a tanker 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 over 100 m in diameter and kills at least 215 (some sources speak of 216 or even 270), and injures 200 people.
• 4 August – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman, Quebec, Canada killing 40. Only seven survive.

1980s

1980

• February 12 – An Ohrid-Izmir regular route bus carrying 50 passengers onboard failed to make a curve and plunged into the Marica River near Sofia, Bulgaria, killing 25.
• February 18 – A 40 passenger bus and an 18 passenger bus collided head-on at San Isidro, Heredia Province, Costa Rica, killing 16, with 39 injured.
• 3 March – 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.
• March 5, – A bus slammed into a banyan tree, before bus trying over take a truck at outskirt of Krishnanagar, West Bengal, India, killing 32 and another injuring are 42.
• 9 May – 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 bridge.
• June 5 – A tour bus rolls off the highway near Jasper, Arkansas, killing 22 and injuring 19.
• June 25, – A bus carrying 100 passengers lost control and plunged into the Rahand Nullah River, Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 58.
• June 29 – According to the Associated Press of Pakistan, a bus carrying over 100 children and women plunges into an Upper Jhelam canal near Mirpur, Kashmir of Pakistan, and at least 90 people drown as a result.
• July 4, – Two passenger buses collided head-on on National Highway Route 1, Camalig, Albay, Philippines, killing 13 and injuring 28.
• November 11, – A bus collided with two trucks, then plunged into an irrigation canal near Beni Sweif, Egypt, killing 30 and injuring at least 30.
• November 25, – A Gwalior-Delhi Delhi Transport Bus tumbled into the Chambal River, Dholpur, Rajasthan, India, killing 40 and injuring 30.

1981

• January 3 – A passenger bus skidded and plunged 200-feet down into a ravine at outskirt of Galhar, Indian Kashmir, killing 17 and injuring 18.
• February 12 – A crowded bus, heavy truck, a small vehicle and many vehicles pile-up collision disaster at Barquisimento, Venezuela, killing 36 and injuring 31.
• April 9 –; An Nicaraguan Army's jeep and head-on collided with a regular route bus at outskirt of Esteli, Nicaragua, killing twenty and injuring forty.
• April 14 – A bus carrying Hindu Pilgrims swerve to the left of the road, and negotiating a turn with brakes failure of the road, and negotiating a turn with brakes failure, caught fire at Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh, India, killing 61.
• July 7 – A bus skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge at outskit of Kawanpui, Mizoram, India, killing 32 and injuring 19.
• June 14 – A bus plunged 300-feet into a ravine at Kohat Pass, Kohat, Pakistan, killing 23 and injuring 25.
• August 12 – 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.
• September 9 – A truck rammed a bus on a hairpin curve and forced it over a 330-foot cliff near Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil, killing 29 and injuring 14.
• September 29 – A head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Toledo province, Spain, kills at least 25 people.
• October 14 – A public bus plunged into foothills at outskirt of Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing forty and injuring 45.

1982

• January 21 – An overcrowded bus swerves to avoid a speeding truck and plunges nine meter off a bridge at Narayanganj, Isa Khan, Bangladesh, killing at least 28; another 40 are injured.
• 31 January – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, killing 14 and injuring 70.
• March 27 – 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 death and injuring 32.
• 1 August – Two buses carrying children collide with cars and burst into flames in Beaune, France, killing 53, including 44 children. Worst highway crash in France.
• September 9 – An express train collided with a bus at outskirt of Szekestehervar, Fejer, Hungary, killing at least sixteen passengers.
• 12 September – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 39. The barriers were not closed, because the operator pressed a wrong button. Only two passengers survive the crash.
• 13 September – 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 following day.
• 3 November – Hundreds are allegedly 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.
• November 25 – An overloaded truck spun out of control and flipped over near Kaitanol, Karnataka, India, killing at least 18 and injuring 14.
• December 26 – A passenger bus plunged into a river at Brahmanbari, Bangladesh, at least forty-five dead and eighty injured.

1983

• 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 are excceded speed, killing seventeen and injuring ten.
• February 13 – A passenger bus head on collided with a truck, when driver trying to pass a care at outskirt of Sanliurfa, Turkey, killing twenty and injuring ten.
• March 2 – A charter bus plunged off mountainous highway into Mantaro River, Jauja, Junin, Peru, killing thirty.
• November 1 – A bus collides with a motorcycle and hits a second bus 370 miles northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 21 and injuring 40.
• 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. Another five are injured.

1984

• January 30 – 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.
• August 1 – 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.
• 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.
• August 26 – A bus slipped and plunged into a 13-feet deep irrigation canal near Salkot, Nepal, killing 25.
• September 5 – A bus carrying 50 passengers plunged into a 3300-foot deep gorge near Shillong, Meghalaya, India, in an incident caused by the driver losing control on a sharp curve and by heavy fog. 29 people are killed, and another 25 are injured.
• September 24 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 42 and injuring 15.
• November 25 – A bus returning from Black Sea, collided with a lorry in thick fog at northern Cankiri, Turkey, at least thirty death and injuring twenty-four.
• December 23 – An overcrowded passenger bus plunged off a expressway at Apaseo Grande, Guanjuato, Mexico, at least twenty-two dead and injuring thirty-five.
• December 24 – An overcrowdwd bus with ninety passengers skidded off a steep overcrowdwd bus with ninety passengers skidded off a steep bank on Wapadsberg Mountain, Craddock-Graaff Region, Eastern Cape, South Africa, at least 42 dead and injuring 25.

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.
• January 28 – A bus carrying skiers plunges into a reservoir in Nagano, Japan killing 25.
• April 6 – A regular route bus suffered brake failure and plunged 20 feet at Bherughat, Madhy Pradesh, India, killing 16 and injuring 39.
• April 20 – A bus plunged 500 feet down the side of road at outskirt of Hibberdene, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, killing 18, another injuring are 29.
• 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.
• July 21 – A bus carrying 42 passengers returning from a Buddhist ordination ceremony collided head on with a truck at an intersection in a suburb of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 26 and injuring 16.
• July 21 – A bus overturned after brake failure and ploughed through a crowded market at Halsema expressway, Atok, Benguet, Philippines, killing 28 and injuring 70.
• 22 September – A school bus rolls over in Leiah, Pakistan, killing 30 children.
• 21 October – A coach collides with stationary traffic due to construction work on the M6 motorway between Preston and Lancaster, killing 13 people.
• December 21 – A São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro Cometa Transport bus veered off the road and into Guandu River, outskirt of Pirai, Rio state, Brazil, killing 22.

1986

• January 17 – A crowded passenger bus plunged into 89-feet deep ravine, with negotiate a sharp curve at Navsari, Gujarat, India, killing 49 and injuring ten.
• April 26 – A bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine where plunged off a cliff at outskirt of Kathgodam, Uttarakhand, India, killing 44 people.
• May 12 – An overcrowded bus lost control due to brake failure and flipped over near Mount Frere, Transkei, South Africa, killing 30. Another 64 are injured.
• 23 May – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province, Philippines, killing 23 and injuring 15.
• 30 May – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River near Walker, California, killing 21 and injuring 19.
• June 17 – A bus carrying 40 passengers, including school children, plunged off a highway and into an irrigation ditch near Canete, Peru, killing 19 and injuring 17.
• June 22 – Two buses carrying Baobaoshan rural factory workers plunged 800-feet before a sharp curve in the Wutai Mountain erea, Shanxi, China, killing 31 and injuring 35.
• July 26 – Lockington rail crash: A train derails after colliding with a Ford Escort at a rail crossing in Lockington, England, killing 8 aboard the train and one aboard the car.
• October 8 – 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.
• October 21 – Two packed buses hit by a passenger express train at Landhi, Karachi, Pakistan, both bus driver has try to pick up waiting passenger train and often are involved accidents, killing 35 and injuring 24.
• November 3 – A bus crashed into road side at outskirt of Murshidabad, West Bengal, India, killing 33 and injuring 28.

1987

• January 4 – A bus carrying workers head-on collided with a truck carrying tomatoes at Itapetininga, state of São Paulo, Brazil, killing fifteen and injuring eleven.
• January 21 – A truck and a bus collide near Temuco, Chile, killing 43.
• February 23 – A bus carrying attend of wedding ceremony skidded off an express way at outskirt of Nsukka, Anambra, Nigeria, killing 35.
• 29 March – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi Province, China, killing 19 and injuring 28.
• May 6 – A bus carrying university students and teachers rammed into the side of a mountain near Kanchanaburi, Sri Sawat, Thailand, killing 20 and injuring 27.
• July 7 – A tank truck carrying gasoline crash and hit icecream palor at Herborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany, killing thirty and injuring 29.
• July 30 – A regular route bus into Yanto canal at outskirt of Dakpatthar, Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 39.
• 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.
• 28 October – A diesel tanker collides with stationary traffic on the M61 near Preston, Lancashire, killing 12 and injuring 6.
• December 11 – A bus carrying local primary school children returning from the Guiza zoo was smashed by high-speed train at an unmarked railroad level crossing at Ein Sham, on the outskirts Cairo, Egypt, killing 62 children and injuring 67.
• December 27 – A passenger bus and two trucks carrying illegal passengers collided near Bouandas, Setif, Algeria, killing 32 and injuring 19.

1988

• February 1 – 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, Haiti, killing 70.
• February 15 – A bus plunged into a 170-foot ravine near Pallasca, Ancash, Peru, killing 14.
• April 10 – An overcrowded regular route bus blew a front tire and plunged into an irrigation canal near Mueang Chainat, Chainat, Thailand, killing 42 and injuring 11.
• April 20 – A local bus collided with a paramilitary troop tank at Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. The resulting explosion killed 25 and injured nine.
• 14 May – 27 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 – A Londrina-Campinas regular route bus swerved to avoid three cows crossing the national highway 369 road, then struck the rear of another bus near Cornelio Procopio, Parana, Brazil, killing 39.
• 12 August – Two buses collide on the highway between Tehran and Tabriz in northern Iran, killing 30 and injuring 50.
• 15 August – A bus plows into a concrete wall in a tunnel 60 miles outside of Bergen, Norway, killing 12 and injuring 19.
• August 23 – A Hungarian tour bus lost control and slammed into a truck at Schwadorf near Vienna, Austria, killing 14 and injuring 11.
• 22 September – A bus falls into a ravine near Simla, India. 35 people die.
• September 25 – A bus plunged into Bhakra canal, smashing through the safety railing of a bridge near Jogwala, Sangrur District, Punjab, India, killing 67.
• 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 and injuring 21.
• October 9 – A Guhawati-Nalburi regular-route bus skidded off a road and crashed into a flooded pond on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam, India, killing 50.
• October 12 – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi Province, China, killing 43 and injuring 40.
• October 21 – Three separate buses collided with a refrigerator truck and overturned at Martorell, Catalonia, Spain, killing 14 and injuring 65.

1989

• January 17 – 51 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-Brasilia regular route bus head-on collided with a truck carrying a load of corn at outskirt of Catalao, Goias, Brazil, killing sixteen and injuring 25.
• February 26 – A bus plunged 330-feet into a deep valley at outskirt of Taoyuan, Taiwan, killing twelve and injuring 24.
• May 19 – A Lima-Huancayo regular route bus carrying sixty passengers slammed on brakes to avoid a pile of construction blockinf bridge, and plunged 90-foot into a Mantaro River, outskirt of Jauja, Junin, Peru, killing 45.
• June 7 – A bus plunged 100-feet into a ravine at outskirt of Baramula, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing fifty and injuring twenty.
• June 24 – 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 and injuring fifty.
• July 16 – A landslide caused by heavy rain collapsed a tunnel, striking a minibus and killing 15 at Echizen, Fukui, Japan.
• October 8 – 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.
• October 20 – 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 and injuring 22.
• 22 December – 35 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 and injuring 8.

1990s

1990

• 22 January – 17 people including 11 FRU riot police personal were killed in a collision between FRU riot police vehicles, tanker lorry, passenger bus and 10 cars on the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway, Malaysia.
• 22 April – Two buses collide in Havana, Cuba, killing 11 and seriously injuring 13.
• June 3 – A Shropshire based double-decker coach, suffered a blowout to the front tyre on the A6 near Auxerre when it was 20mph over 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, tyre of the crash coach, its driver and his employer; resulting in the longest legal case in France
• 8 July – 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.
• September 20 – A mini-van skidded on the slippey road rammed inter-city bus exceeded speed ang plunged, and another inter-city bus hit into disaster site with rescuers work at outskirt of Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 33 and injuring 17.
• September 24 – A truck carrying two unsecured 20,000-liter LPG 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 and injuring 89.
• November 4 – A bus carrying former president Chun Doo-hwan supporters and members hit by truck and plunged Koonchook bridge, Soyang, Gangwon-do, South Korea, killing 21, another injuring are 21.
• 9 November – Almost at the same spot and with the same cause of the August 25, 1972 accident: in sudden dense fog on highway A16 west of Breda, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 die and 28 are injured.
• November 10 – A bus collided passenger train and crushed at outskirt of Suerdlovsk, Yarnal Nenets Oblast, Russia, killing 16, another 13 are injured.
• 22 November – 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.
• December 11 – A 99 car pile-up due to fog on I-75 near Calhoun, Tennessee results in 12 deaths and 42 injured.
• December 2 – A bus carrying wedding party plunged down a ravine at outskirt of Nainital, Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 30, another 20 are injured.
• 30 December – 56 die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway between Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don in southwestern Russia.

1991

• January 6 – A bus slammed into a tree on a railroad crossing at outskirt of Muranga, Central, Kenya, in an incident caused by driver has lost control and exceed speed, killing 47, another 40 are injured.
• January 13 – A Dapitan-Dipolog regular route bus plunged into a river at outskirt of Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, killing 25.
• 15 February – A trailer truck carrying dynamite explodes at Thung Maphrao, Phang Nga, Thailand killing 171 local villagers.
• 31 July – A bus carrying about 60 Girl Scouts overturns on a desert mountain road near Highway 111, killing 7.
• 4 August – A crowded bus carrying school children loses control and crashes in Troutbeck, Zimbabwe, killing 87, including 82 children.
• 7 August – The brakes of a Hungarian tourist bus fail in Styria, killing 15 and injuring 28.
• November 29 – A dust storm on I-5 near Coalinga, California triggers a 164-vehicle pile up that leaves 17 dead and 150 injured.
• 6 December – A 25-vehicle pile-up crash due to heavy fog on Autovía A-8 near Amorebieta, Basque Country kills 17 and injures 50. A spark sets the pile of cars on fire.

1992

• March 1 – A regular route bus with 100 passengers vaulted intoo a road side creek at outskirt of Jaldhalca, Nilphamari, Bangladesh, killing 25.
• 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.
• April 12 – A bus carrying seventy school children ripped apart, after crashing into Buffalo River bridge, Dundee, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, killing 33.
• April 18 – A Buenos Aires-Mar del Plata regular route bus smashed with three vehicles and foggy condition at outskirt of Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 32 and injuring 26.
• 19 August – A bus falls down an embankment on the A7 highway in Spain, killing 45 and injuring 11.
• 6 September – Near Donaueschingen in the Black Forest, a bus collides into a passenger car and is slit open by a crash barrier. 21 die, 32 are seriously injured.
• September 27 – A truck carrying Hindu goddress plunged 450-feet below at outskirt of Dhankuta, Nepal, killing 21.
• September 27 – A minibus carrying German travellers collided with local train crossing at Agard, Hungary, killing 16, another three are injured.
• October 9 – 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.

1993

• 9 January – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in Santo Tome, Argentina, killing 55 and injuring 70.
• April 30 – A passenger train hit a bus carrying children of Shergli Primary schools at unguarded railroad crossing at Phutthamonthon, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand, killing 36 including 28 children.
• May 13 – A Sogratl-Makhachkala regular route bus plunged into 260-feet george at outskirt of Gunib, Caucasus Mountains erea, Dagestan, Russia, killing 25.
• May 27 – A bus carrying attend to 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 and injuring eleven.
• July 24 – A Surabaya-Pandanwangi passenger train rammed into an intercity bus an unguarded railroad crossing, and a bus dragged for eighty-yard before the train halted at Jombang, West Java, Indonesia, killing fifteen and injuring twenty.
• October 3 – A multipile road disaster, including a passenger bus, truck and many vehicles are crushed at Nakuru-Eldoret road, Nakuru, Kenya, killing 35 and injuring 41.
• 10 November – A fiery pile-up on A10 near Mirambeau, France leaves 15 dead and 53 injured.
• 17 November – The M40 minibus crash leaves 12 children dead when their minibus collides with a maintenance vehicle near Warwick, England, sparking new road security campaigns.
• December 27 – An overloaded Curitiba-Porto Alegre regular route bus collided with sports car and plunged into a ravine at outskirt of Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, killing 41, another 79 are injured.

1994

• January 10 – A bus pass through guardrail, aftermath veer off Feiyun bridge river at Ruian, Zhejiang, China, killing 45.
• January 11 – A Cape Town-Durban laxury bus plunged off a bridge at between Bethlehem and Harrismith, Orange Free State, South Africa, killing 14, another 27 are injured.
• January 31 – A regular route bus caught fire and plunged into 300-feet below of sea at national highway 1, Ca Pass, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, killing 28, another 11 are injured.
• March 14 – A bus carrying 75 passengers on board swerved off an iron and concrete bridge into a fast flowing Kadava, Maharashtra, India, killing 64.
• 2 May – 1994 Poland bus disaster: 32 die in collision between a PKS bus and a tree near Gdańsk.
• May 24 – A bus rolled down a mountainside road at outskirt of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 14, another 11 are injured.
• May 26 – A bus lost control and plunged into dam at Lothain, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, killing 36.
• May 26 – A minibus head-on collided a truck at outskirt of Middolburg, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, killing 13.
• September 1 – 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.
• October 16 – A commuter bus plunged off a mountainroad and fell 600-feet at outskirt of Amarai, Narayani, Nepal, killing 15, another 21 are injured.

1995

• January 21 – A truck carrying religious pilgrims plunged off a highway into 70-feet at outskirt of Oaxaca city, Mexico, killing 22, another injuring are ten.
• February 5 – A bus collided with truck carrying cement at outskirt of Ponedera, Atlantico, Colombia, killing 13.
• March 12 – A truck carrying benzene liquid chemical rammed and collided with a bus at ourtskirt of Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India, killing 110.

1996

• January 1 – When a bus crossed center line and careened into on coming traffic, a bus head collided with another bus at Highway Two line, Sonoytai, Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexico, killing 23, another 50 are injured.
• January 1 – A Kinshasa-Kingasani regular route bus plunged a ravine and skidded of a main road at Kimbanseke erea, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 72.
• February 10 – A huge shard of rock wighing about 21,000 tons smashed through at Toyohama tunnel, national highway route 229, Yoichi, western Hokkaidō, Japan, with crushing Shakotan-Otaru regular route bus and a car, killing 20.
• 25 February – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia, killing at least 35.
• 28 February – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen, Spain, killing 29 and injuring 17.
• March 17 – A bus carrying illegally foreigners has crushed at outskirt of Asir, Jizan, Saudi Arabia, killing 45.
• April 4 – A Seoul commuter bus plunged at Han River, Yeouido, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, South Korea, killing 20, another injuring are 38.
• September 26 – A local bus hit by passenger train at railroad crossing of near Konnoarmayskaya, Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, killing 21 and injuring twenty.
• September 29 – A minivan carrying construction workers crushed at national highway route 9, Muraoka, Hyogo, Japan, killing 10.
• November 1 – 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, another injuring are 15.

1997

• January 14 – A crowded city bus plunges into the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, killing 39 people and injuring 24.
• January 19 – A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab, India, killing 29 and injuring 12.
• March 24 – A Seoul bound passenger train smashed into packed local bus, where flipped a vehicle onto railroad side at Namwon, North Jeolla, South Korea, killing fourteen and injuring twenty.
• May 8 – A truck carrying local wedding couples and families are plunged by lost control with overturned at Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 70, another 8 are injured.
• 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 bus plunges into a ravine. Worse bus accident in Canadian history.
• October 25 – A bus smashed into a carrying gasoline tanker truck at Togela River, Port Shepstone, South Africa. This bus carrying Inkatha Freedom Party supporters and members. At least 33 killed.
• November 6 – A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province, Cuba, killing at least 56 people.
• 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.

1998

• 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.
• January 7 – A Meru-Nairobi Kenyan Bus Service regular route bus lost control of the vehicle and plammeted down 100-feet embankment into Nithi river, Kenya, killing 58, another 42 are injured.
• January 13 – A bus carrying 86 students and parents back from 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.
• April 3 – A petrol tanker truck collided with a bus Iranian Muslims returning from Syria at outskirt of Birecik, Sanliurfa, Turkey, killing 28, another 7 are injured.
• April 15 – A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, South Africa, killing 31, including 27 children.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 eleven and injuring ten.
• December 31 – 100 cars crashed on an ice-slicked section of Interstate-75 in central Michigan, killing one and injuring 39.

1999

• January 4 – A local bus carrying 40 passengers onboard exploded and blast ripped at outskirt of Linghai, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China, killing 18.
• 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.
• January 24 – A bus carrying Hungarian skiers where plunged off a hillside at outskirts of Deutschlandsberg, Styria, Austria, killing 18, another 32 are injured.
• 15 March – 1999 Bourbonnais train accident: the City of New Orleans collides with a truck and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States, killing 11.
• & 24 March – 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire.
• May 9 – A bus slipped and plunged 680-feet down slope at Kapurbot Bazar, Saiyan, Rapti, Nepal, killing 32, another 36 are injured.
• 9 May – A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing 22 and injuring 24.
• May 29 – 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel in Austria.
• June 7 – A bus carrying 119 passengers plunged into a lake near Davangere, Karnataka, India, the accident was caused by excessive speed over bad roads, resulting in loss of control. Another contributing factor was overloading of the bus, with several travellers riding on the roof. The accident resulted in 94 deaths and another 25 were injured.
• July 18 – A Kiari-Shimla HRTC regular route bus carrying 90 passengers on-board plunged into 40-feet deep gorne at outskirt of Bagar, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 18, another 55 are injured.
• July 24 – A trailer truck crashes into cars slowed by roadwork on Autoroute 20 near Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing 4 and injuring 11. 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 a 87 vehicles pileup and fire that kills 8 and injures 33. Many vehicles are fused together by the intense heat.
• September 14 – A long distance regular route bus overturned and plunged into canyon at outskirt of Kaijiang, Dazhou, Sichuan, China, killing 46, another 9 are injured.
• September 25 – A bus went off a highway in foggy weather and crashed at outskirt of Kokstad, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, killing 15, another 20 are injured.
• October 11 – A Jakarta-Bandung Turanga express bus crashed into cliffside at outskirt of Lembah Hijau, Puncak, West Java, Indonesia, killing 45, another 29 are injured.
• November 19 – A commuter bus collided with many vehicles, include truck, bus at Lagos-Kano expressway at outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria. Aftermath, a bus caughtfire on impact. this accident is killing 22, another 16 are injured.
• December 30 – A Karachi-Rawalpindi regular route bus overturned and caught fire at Lahore-Islamabad M2 expressway, outskirt of Kallar Kahar, Punjab of Pakistan, in an incident caused by exceed speed, killing 48, another 20 are injured.

See also

• List of bridge disasters
• List of rail accidents - includes level crossing accidents:

• Rail accidents pre-1950
• Rail accidents 1950–1999
• Rail accidents 2000–present

• List of level crossing accidents
• Accidents

External links

• Early Auto Accidents A Fascinating Collection of Photos of Auto Accidents from the 1920s to 1950's
• Partial list of Highway disasters
• Descansos.org :: Project to create awareness for victims of vehicular fatalities. Painting the story of victims to create love, peace and public awareness.
• A Condensed History of Vehicle Recovery in the United Kingdom.