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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 ...
A car was struck by an XPT service traveling at 160 km/h (99 mph), killing five. [6] February 28 – United Kingdom – Selby rail crash. A car was driven off the M62 motorway onto railway tracks, causing the derailment of a passenger train and its subsequent collision with a freight train, killing 10.
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 ...
This number was 716 deaths lower than the previous year, but it is still high compared to the 39,007 deaths in 2020 and the 36,355 deaths in 2019. Apart from being the most common type of crash ...
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 ...
In 2020, the number of traffic deaths jumped by 6% to 574 before a 17% increase the following year brought the total to 674. Each of the past two years saw a 10% increase in traffic deaths from ...
November 9 – Netherlands – In sudden dense fog on the A16 motorway west of Breda, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 people were killed and 28 injured. [135] December 11 – United States – Interstate 75 fog disaster. A 99 car pile-up due to fog on Interstate 75 near Calhoun, Tennessee resulted in 12 deaths and 42 ...