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Detailed road map of the Netherlands (2012) The Netherlands has a public road network totaling 139,000 km, [1] one of the densest in the world. [2] [3] [nb 1] Its use has increased since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km traveled per year, [5] three quarters of which is by car, [6] making it among the most intensely used road networks. [4]
Strangled by scarf getting tangled in rear wheel of open-top sports car. Thrown out onto road, died instantly. Joey Dunlop: 1952 2000 48 years British motorcycle racer motorcycle Tallinn, Estonia Died in an open-road race. [131] William Dunlop: 1984 2018 33 years Irish motorcycle racer motorcycle County Dublin, Ireland [132] Ryan Dunn: 1977 ...
April 14 – Egypt – 20 people were killed and three injured when a bus collided with a truck and caught fire in Asyut. [338] [339] May 20 – Pakistan – A bus overturned on a highway in Sukkur, killing at least 13 passengers and injuring 29 others. [340] May 24 – Guinea-Bissau – 14 people died after a truck crashed into homes in ...
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]]. 95–4,000+ [30] [31] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Dutch roads include 3,530 km of motorways and expressways, [1] and with a motorway density of 64 kilometres per 1,000 km 2, the country also has one of the densest motorway networks in the world. [3] In Dutch a motorway is called "autosnelweg" or simply "snelweg"; other expressways are just called "autoweg" (literally: "car road"). According to ...
Provincial roads in the Netherlands (1 C, 45 P) S. Streets in the Netherlands (3 C, ...
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
[19] [nb 3] Some 85% of the people own at least one bicycle. All in all the Dutch are estimated to have at least 18 million functioning bikes, [22] [23] which makes more than one per capita, and much more than the 11.3 million motor vehicles registered on the road. [24] Almost as many passenger kilometres are covered by bicycle as by train. [8]