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The Kembla Grange derailment occurred early on the morning of 20 October 2021 near Kembla Grange railway station, New South Wales, Australia, when a passenger train collided with an abandoned van and derailed.
Pages in category "Road incidents in Australia" ... Kempsey bus crash; M. December 2017 Melbourne car attack;
This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year. It shows the annual number of road fatalities (road deaths or Road toll) per capita per year, per vehicle and per vehicle-km in the year the data was collected. The list includes all road users such as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
February 18 – Australia – Cardross road crash. A car hit a group of pedestrians in Cardross, Victoria, killing six. March 9 – Turkey – A bus carrying about 40 people drove off a road and plunged into the Kelkit River in Tokat Province, killing at least 16 and injuring 11. [42] April 17 – Mexico – Maltrata bus crash.
Cardross road crash. Car ploughs into group of teenagers, driver flees. Sinking: Sydney Harbour, New South Wales: 6: 2008 May 1: 6 killed and 9 injured when two boats collided. [311] Road accident: Penshurst, Victoria: 6: 2011 Nov 11: A car and truck collided and subsequently caught fire at an intersection near Penshurst.
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. [5]
Australian aviation accidents were initially investigated by the Air Accident Investigation Committee (AAIC), formed in 1927, to "investigate all civil and military aircraft accidents that the Committee deemed advisable". [8] When the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) was formed in 1938, investigation of air safety came within its purview.
Lists of railway accidents that have occurred in each state and territory of Australia are contained in the following articles: Railway accidents in New South Wales; Railway accidents in the Northern Territory; Railway accidents in Queensland; Railway accidents in South Australia; Railway accidents in Tasmania; Railway accidents in Victoria