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Hundreds of accidents on snow-filled roads caused travel chaos this week as a snowstorm stretched from the central United States to the Eastern Seaboard, with one city receiving its biggest ...
Winter Storm Kingston swept across the U.S. from the Midwest into the South and mid-Atlantic, bringing snow, ice and dangerous road conditions to cities including Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kansas City and ...
Millions of people from the Tennessee Valley to the mid-Atlantic remain under winter weather alerts as the region continues to clean up after a deadly winter storm that slammed the region on ...
It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States. 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 ...
It killed 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history. [20] November 10 – 1957 Saint-Paul bus accident – The brakes of a bus ruptured on an incline, causing 27 deaths.
This list of traffic collisions records serious road traffic accidents, with multiple fatalities. The list includes notable accidents with at least 5 deaths, which either occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other significance. For crashes that killed notable people, refer to the list of people who died in traffic collisions. This ...
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 ...
33 people killed in first fire, four people killed in second fire several days later 37 1976 American Airlines Flight 625: Accident – aircraft Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands: 37 1994 USAir Flight 1016: Accident – aircraft Charlotte, North Carolina: 36 1846 USS Somers (1842) Accident – shipwreck Off Veracruz