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Just after 4:00 p.m. MDT on April 25, 2019, an unrelated semi-trailer truck crashed into a Jefferson County Public Schools school bus on Interstate 70 at the Ward Road exit, resulting in ten injuries, [1] and causing Interstate 70 to be closed eastbound from Ward Road (Exit 266) to Kipling Street (Exit 267). [2]
December 9 – Mexico – Chiapas truck crash. A truck carrying over 180 smuggled migrants on Mexican Federal Highway 190 overturned and hit the base of a pedestrian bridge, killing 55 and injuring over 100. December 14 – Haiti – Cap-Haïtien fuel tanker explosion. A fuel truck overturned and exploded, killing at least 90 and injuring more ...
On Monday February 12, 1968, 930 of 1100 sanitation workers did not show up for work, including 214 of 230 sewer drainage workers. [8] Only 38 of the 108 garbage trucks continued to move. [7] Their deaths, together with many racial and working-class injustices prompted Martin Luther King Jr. to join a citywide march on March 18. The march ended ...
A man was killed while trying to tow a private bus in Raleigh on Tuesday when the bus fell on him, Raleigh police said. Police and emergency medical workers arrived on Kirkland Drive around 4:30 p ...
From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%.
In Memphis, 25.96 people per 100,000 residents were killed in fatal motor vehicle accidents, the most of any major U.S. city. Detroit and Albuquerque, New Mexico, followed with the highest rate of ...
The number of Helene-related deaths in Buncombe County, verified by the medical examiner's office, sits at 42. According to Haight, all decedents found in Buncombe County are included in the ...
On September 5, 2013, an articulated truck drove through a red light at high speed, killing 26 people (later becoming 27) and injuring at least 80, [1] in Pinetown, South Africa. After a light turned green at the junction of Richmond/Josiah Gumede Roads, several vehicles (including taxis full of home-bound commuters) began advancing and were ...