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It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States. From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year ...
December 9 – Mexico – Chiapas truck crash. A truck carrying over 180 smuggled migrants on Mexican Federal Highway 190 overturned and hit the base of a pedestrian bridge, killing 55 and injuring over 100. December 14 – Haiti – Cap-Haïtien fuel tanker explosion. A fuel truck overturned and exploded, killing at least 90 and injuring more ...
A man was killed while trying to tow a private bus in Raleigh on Tuesday when the bus fell on him, Raleigh police said. Police and emergency medical workers arrived on Kirkland Drive around 4:30 p ...
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...
These numbers may still go up as the holiday travel period, which started on Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. ET, runs until Nov. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
After the truck hit the officers, Pusey filmed them for several minutes with vulgar commentary as they lay dying, before fleeing. [1] [2] The crash was the biggest loss of police lives in a single incident in Victoria Police's history. Justice Paul Coghlan stated that the crash had "shocked the public conscience". [3]
According to Spartanburg Coroner Rusty Clevenger, Sarah Ann Farr, 77, and Faye Farr Webber, 86, both of Jonesville, died early Tuesday morning after a tractor-trailer hit their car.
NTSB "go team" members at the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash site. The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles, [96] [97] while for driving, the rate was 1.5 per 100 million vehicle-miles for 2000, which is 150 deaths per 10 ...