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A crash on the Dschang Cliff, West Region killed 53 people after a truck illegally carrying fuel collided with a bus. [309] February 11 – United States – Icy conditions from an ice storm caused a massive 133-vehicle pileup on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth, Texas, killing six people and injuring 95. February 16 – India – Sidhi bus accident.
It was settled during the California Gold Rush in 1849 and produced a large amount of placer gold. Hard rock mines were established soon afterward and were very productive. Washington is the only settlement in the vicinity to have survived to this day. There remains today much evidence of placer gold mining, hydraulic mining, and hard-rock mining.
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The present-day Reed Elementary School is named after Frazier O. Reed, a grandson of James F. Reed. [6] In 1851, during the California statehood process, Reed was a leading proponent of a plan to make San Jose the capital of California, and he donated four city blocks to the cause.
The sheriff’s office said that alcohol was believed to be a factor in the crash. Authorities have asked anyone with information about the crash to contact the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s ...
[12] [13] By 1924, the California Highway Commission's engineers had realized that building Route 50 through the canyon was impractical, and adopted a substitute plan for two highways connecting Lower Lake and Rumsey with the planned Route 15 (Tahoe-Ukiah Highway, now State Route 20) to the north [14] in September 1925.
The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the date of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence. From the beginning, California Highway Patrol sergeant Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) announces in a voice-over that a 39-car smash-up will be the cause of 62 injured people and fourteen deaths. A selection of the ...