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A fuel tanker overturned and exploded, creating a fireball that devastated the town of Sange in South Kivu province, killing 230 and injuring 196 in the deadliest road accident in history. [89] July 3 – Philippines – A bus lost its brakes and rammed a concrete wall in Toledo, Cebu, killing 15. [90] July 11 – Ireland – R238 traffic ...
IRTAD participants. The International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) is an initiative dedicated to compiling and analyzing global road crash data. It is managed by the International Transport Forum (ITF) under the auspices of its permanent working group, which specializes in road safety, commonly referred to as the IRTAD Group.
Printable version; In other projects ... 2023 Chicago train crash; B. 1999 Bourbonnais, Illinois, train crash ... This page was last edited on 9 July 2024, ...
From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6]
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?"
Disasters and accidents. 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Beryl. The death toll from Hurricane Beryl in the eastern Caribbean increases to nine, with deaths reported in Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela. Four police officers are killed in floods caused by Tropical Storm Chris in Tepetlán, Mexico. (El Imparcial)
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4 July 1944 Denmark: Aarhus: 39 250 1944 explosion in Aarhus: 17 July 1944 United States: Port Chicago, California: 320 390+ Port Chicago disaster – Munitions intended for the Pacific Front of World War II exploded during loading on a ship at a U.S. Navy magazine, killing hundreds of workers and numerous African Americans.