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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A vehicle crash on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, Manitoba, killed 17. [508] June 16 – United States – A car ran a red light and crashed into another car killing 5 after exiting Interstate 35 in Minneapolis. [509] June 23 – United States – A sedan carrying six crashed on Interstate 5 in Long Beach, California, killing five. [510]
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.
Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study; Kia is second with a rate of 5.5, and Buick rounds out the top three with a 4.8 rate. The average ...
It is considered the worst multiple-vehicle collision in Wisconsin history. [34] 3 November 2002: United States (Los Angeles County, California) 0: 41: 216: Dense fog caused an accident on Interstate 710 in Los Angeles County, California, United States involving around 200 vehicles. [35] 5 November 2002: France (Coulombiers, Vienne) 10: 39: 58