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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. [2] That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average. Only 28 countries, representing 449 million people (seven percent of the world's population), have laws that address the five risk factors of speed ...
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 ...
The following is a list of articles that contain a lists of traffic collisions, or list of people who died in traffic collisions. Lists of traffic collisions [ edit ]
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [30]]. 95–4,000+ [31] [32] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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 ...
A 55-car pileup on A1 motorway near Senožeče, Slovenia killed five and injured more than 30. [112] [113] 13 February 2016: United States (Lebanon County, Pennsylvania) 3: 25+ 50: Icy conditions caused a pileup on the I-78 Freeway in Pennsylvania, resulting in the deaths of 3 people. 50 cars were involved and at least 25 people were injured ...
157 of the people who died in car accidents were pedestrians, the highest figure the state has ever recorded in a single year. The 141 motorcyclists killed were also the most in a year on record.
February 10 – Pakistan – At least 10 people, including six schoolchildren, were killed in a fireball after a tanker carrying liquified petroleum gas collided with a car in Sheikhupura. [ 203 ] February 11 - France - A school bus collided head-on with a truck carrying rubble in Rochefort , killing six children.