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23 May 1957 – A rail car hit a car on a private crossing on the Inkson farm at Omihi North Canterbury resulting in the death of Joseph and Sheila Inkson. [100] [101] [102] [full citation needed] 19 February 1957 – Palmerston North shunting accident.
Bridget Driscoll is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car crash, and the first pedestrian victim of an automobile crash in the United Kingdom. As she crossed the grounds of The Crystal Palace in London, she was struck by an automobile belonging to the Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company that was being used to give demonstration rides. [6]
Speeding and drunk driving contributed to Kylie's fatal car crash. Chris Hartje: 1915 1946 31 years American baseball player bus Snoqualmie Pass Highway (US 10), Washington: Passenger in a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team, which swerved to avoid a wrong-way driver and plunged 300–500 feet down a mountainside. Hartje and eight of ...
1943 RNZAF Catalina crash air accident 5 Jun 1943: south of Fiji: 14 [79] [80] Pan Am Flight 806: air accident 30 Jan 1974: Pago Pago, American Samoa: Only New Zealand deaths listed 12 [81] 1945 RNZAF Catalina crash air accident 27 Jan 1945: off Beqa, Fiji 10 [82] Bere Ferrers rail accident, train hit NZ troops on tracks by platform train ...
The disaster marked the first major loss of life in New Zealand railway history; the Christchurch Press noted that each of the previous fatal railway accidents had resulted in no greater loss of life than that resulting from an overturned motor car. [1] The Ongarue disaster remains the third worst railway accident in New Zealand's history.
A 7-year-old boy stayed by his mother's side for almost 12 hours after they were involved in a car crash on a California highway in which the mother died over the weekend, authorities say. The two ...
A vehicle crash on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Manitoba, killed 17. [495] June 16 – United States – A car ran a red light and crashed into another car killing 5 after exiting Interstate 35 in Minneapolis. [496] June 23 – United States – A sedan carrying six crashed on Interstate 5 in Long Beach, California, killing five. [497]
A Jetstar Airways aircraft had steering issues while landing at Christchurch Airport on Friday morning, the airline said in a statement, with local media reporting it left the runway. Jetstar ...