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Big Bayou Canot rail accident. On September 22, 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge near Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was caused by displacement of a span and deformation of the rails when a tow of heavy barges collided with the rail bridge eight minutes earlier.
The General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge, more commonly known locally as the " Dolly Parton Bridge ", consists of dual parallel tied through arches of weathering steel and beam viaducts of concrete that form one continuous span carrying four lanes of Interstate 65 across the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta northeast of the U.S. city of Mobile, Alabama.
Mobile International Airport (IATA: BFM, ICAO: KBFM, FAA LID: BFM) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Mobile, a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. [1] The airport is a principal component of the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley, a 1,650
1993 Big Bayou Canot rail accident, Mobile, Alabama; 47 killed plus 103 injured. Alabama's deadliest rail disaster to date [233] [234] [235] 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision, Fox River Grove, Illinois; 7 killed plus 21 injured [236] [237] [238] 1996 Secaucus train collision, Secaucus, New Jersey; 3 killed plus 162 injured [239] [240]
June 25 – United Kingdom – Greenock rail crash, Scotland: Two people were killed after a train struck concrete blocks placed on the track by vandals. August 3 – United States – The Lake Shore Limited, operated by Amtrak, derailed on Conrail tracks in Batavia, New York. 108 passengers and 10 crew members were injured.
United States (Mobile, Alabama) 1: 90: 200: Fog caused an accident on Interstate 10 in Mobile, Alabama, United States, involving 200 vehicles, leading to one death and 90 injuries. [23] 27 February 1996: Belgium : 10: 80: 200: Fog caused an accident on E17 motorway near Nazareth, Belgium. [24] 10 March 1997: United Kingdom (Bromsgrove, England ...
The earlier case involved a Mobile school board member who "misused over $9,000 in school funds to purchase Mardi Gras trinkets and 7,000 Moon Pies without authorization and then, allegedly, drove ...
The schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859 [1] or on July 9, 1860, [2][3] with 110 African men, women, and children. [4] The ship was a two-masted schooner, 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 ft (7.0 m).