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The total fatalities figures comes from the WHO report (table A2, column point estimate, pp. 264–271) and are often an adjusted number of road traffic fatalities in order to reflect the different reporting and counting methods among the many countries (e.g., "a death after how many days since accident event is still counted as a road fatality?"
Carberry highway collision: 15 June 2023 North Cypress-Langford, Manitoba: 17 Manitoba's deadliest traffic accident occurred during a vehicle collision between a handi-transit bus and a semi-truck on the Trans-Canada Highway in the Municipality of North Cypress – Langford near Carberry, Manitoba, Canada, killing 17 seniors and injuring 8 ...
Transportation Safety Board of Canada office in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB, French: Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada, BST), officially the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board (French: Bureau canadien d'enquête sur les accidents de transport et de la sécurité des transports) [1] is the agency of the ...
Dowling truck-train collision: 9 November 1973: Dowling, Ontario: 0: 0: On November 9, 1973, a truck-train collision caused a 1,100-gallon spill at the New Cobden Road crossing just off Highway 144 in Dowling, Ontario, more than 20 miles northwest of Sudbury. It wasn't until four years later, when traces of PCBs were found in the water table ...
March 16 – Canada – A van carrying ten daycare children and a teacher collided with a car in Nicolet, Quebec, killing eight children. [1] July 7 – Spain – A bus collided head-on with a truck near Soria, killing 27 and injuring 13. [2] August 28 – Nigeria – Abuja bus crash. A lorry crushed three buses after its brakes failed, rolling ...
June 15 – A vehicle collision between a handi-transit bus and a semi-truck occurs on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Manitoba, killing 17 seniors and injuring 8 others. [49] [50] June 18 Titan, a submersible carrying five people, goes missing in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. [51]
Worldwide, it was estimated that 1.25 million people were killed and many millions more were injured in motor vehicle collisions in 2013. [2] This makes motor vehicle collisions the leading cause of death among young adults of 15–29 years of age (360,000 die a year) and the ninth most frequent cause of death for all ages worldwide. [3]
Head-on collision with two cars involved Standard wrong-way sign package used on all freeway off-ramps in the state of California to prevent head-on collisions [1]. A head-on collision is a traffic collision where the front ends of two vehicles such as cars, trains, ships or planes hit each other when travelling in opposite directions, as opposed to a side collision or rear-end collision.