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The 1955 Le Mans disaster was a major crash that occurred on 11 June 1955 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, Sarthe, France. Large pieces of debris flew into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Levegh, and injuring around 120 more. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport ...
car Aalst, Belgium: He died in a car crash on his way to the start of the Tour of Flanders. Arnold Diamond: 1915 1992 76 years British actor car Bournemouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom Died from injuries after being knocked down. Diana, Princess of Wales: 1961 1997 36 years British member of British royal family car (passenger)
Daniel Joseph Silva (born July 13, 1993) is an American celebrity tattoo artist and reality TV show star from Gilroy, California. [2] Silva was the driver in a traffic collision on May 10, 2020, killing passenger and YouTube star Corey La Barrie while out celebrating La Barrie's 25th birthday. Both Silva and La Barrie were intoxicated but Silva ...
On the afternoon of February 18, 2001, American stock car racing driver and team owner Dale Earnhardt was involved in a final-lap collision in the 2001 Daytona 500, in which he crashed into a retaining wall after making contact with Sterling Marlin and Ken Schrader. He was pronounced dead at Halifax Medical Center a short time later; the cause ...
Traffic collision. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building. Traffic collisions often result in injury, disability, death, and property damage as ...
The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] However, fatal car accidents in the U.S. declined at a much slower rate than in other developed countries, and the downwards trend began to reverse in the mid-2010s. [6] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an ...
Aftermath of a multi-vehicle collision on the M4 Motorway in Sydney, Australia. A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pile-up or multi-car collision ), [1] is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of ...
On September 3, 1994, a 76 year-old man jumped to his death from a ninth-floor balcony of the Disneyland Hotel. This was the first suicide known to be committed at the Disneyland Resort. [92] [93] On July 6, 1996, a 23-year-old man either jumped or fell to his death from the 14th floor of the Disneyland Hotel.