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Crashes at intersections (road junctions) are a very common type of road collision types. Collisions may involve head-on impact when one vehicle crosses an opposing lane of traffic to turn at an intersection, or side impacts when one vehicle crosses the path of an adjoining vehicle at an intersection.
A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
April 4 – China – A four-vehicle collision involving a bus on the Shenyang–Haikou Expressway in Jiangsu caused by a truck tire falling off killed 11 and injured 19. [339] April 5 – Ivory Coast – At least 14 people were killed in two separate accidents on the highway linking Abidjan to the north of the country. [340]
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An accident involving a gasoline tanker truck in the third (then-northernmost) bore set off the Caldecott Tunnel fire. [12] The accident caused major damage and the bore was closed to traffic for several months while repairs were made, with traffic temporarily reverting to the pre-third-bore configuration.
Countries using older road-safety paradigms [8] replace KSI rates with crash rates – for example, crashes per million vehicle-miles. Vehicle speed within the human tolerances for avoiding serious injury and death is a key goal of modern road-design, because impact speed affects the severity of injury both to vehicle occupants and to pedestrians.
TOWN OF NEWBURGH - An Oklahoma woman has been indicted for vehicular manslaughter in a fatal June crash on Route 9W that claimed the life of a Kingston woman.
In the United States and Canada this collision type is also known as a right-angle collision or T-bone collision; it is also sometimes referred to by the abbreviation "AABS" for "auto accident, broadside". [6] Vehicle damage and occupant injury are more likely to be severe, but severity varies based on the part of the vehicle that is struck ...