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Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 [2] – 28 February 2013) [3] was an English criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. [4] At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting £2,631,684, [5] equivalent to £69 Million today. [6] Reynolds spent five years on the run before being sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment in 1969.
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
The first pedestrian victim of an automobile crash in the United Kingdom. [129] pedestrian Crystal Palace, London One of the earliest recorded road crash victims. Piero Drogo: 1926 1973 46 years Italian racing driver and coachbuilder car Ferrari 250 California Bologna, Italy Crashed into a broken down truck in a tunnel; both were unlit. [130]
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The Lackawanna Limited wreck occurred when a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) passenger train, the New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited with 500 passengers, [1] crashed into a freight train on August 30, 1943, killing 29 people [2] in the small Steuben County community of Wayland in upstate New York, approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Rochester.
Nov. 15—The Kern County coroner's office released the identity Wednesday of a 27-year-old Corona woman who was struck and killed by a train Sept. 21 in Delano. Cassandra Regina Holguin was a ...
The victim was visiting the park to attend "Stark Raven Mad 2003", an event hosting roller coaster enthusiasts from around the United States. At approximately 8:00 pm, the victim and her fiancé boarded The Raven in the last row of the train. Following a safety check of her lap bar and seat belt by a ride operator, the train left the station.