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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...
Texas City, Texas: 581 5,000+ Texas City disaster: 18 August 1947 Spain: Cádiz: 147+ 5,000+ Cádiz Explosion: 25 May 1950 United States: Chicago: 34 50 1950 Chicago streetcar crash: 11 June 1955 France: Le Mans: 84 180 1955 Le Mans disaster: 7 August 1956 Colombia: Cali: 1,300–4,000 4,000–12,000 Cali explosion: 1 July 1959 Mexico ...
A Venezuelan flag flies at the site of the deadly crash where 8 migrants were run over and killed yesterday waiting at a bus stop on 8 May 2023 in Brownsville, Texas (Getty Images)
A head-on collision in Texas killed seven people and seriously injured two children Thursday, officials said. The crash occurred around 4:40 p.m. local time on FM 1433, about eight miles north of ...
The Texas Department of Public Safety stated on X, formerly Twitter, that there was a major crash along U.S. Route 67 in the Nemo area, approximately 50 miles southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The truck then reversed from the crash site and appeared to be preparing to strike it again, however authorities at the scene were able to detain the driver. [4] Brenham Mayor Atwood Kenjura commented that, according to the fire chief, "if he had veered a little bit to the left the second time, there would have been a collapse of that building."
In the video, the car hits a ramp and is airborne, before causing an explosion, which isn’t captured in the footage. It is confirmed the explosion killed two people who were inside the vehicle.