List of traffic collisions (before 2000)

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List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those with a high death toll, possess an article of their own, occurred in unusual circumstances, or which hold some other historical significance. For crashes in which famous people died, please refer to List of people who died in road accidents.

Notable historic road accidents
1950s:	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
1960s:	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
1970s:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
1980s:	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
1990s:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
2000s:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
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1700s

• 1771 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot crashes his steam engine powered vehicle into a brick wall in what is believed to have been the first automobile accident.

1800s

• August 31, 1869 – Mary Ward is thrown from and falls under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins, thought to be the first ever recorded automobile death.
• 17 August 1896 – Bridget Driscoll is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car accident.
• 25 February, 1899 – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer, are the first recorded driver and passenger fatalities respectively. They are thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, London.
• 13 September, 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person killed by a car in the United States.

1940s

1941

• October – A Royal Air Force bus crashes into a lorry and catches fire near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, killing 9 airmen and injuring 13.

1944

• June – An Army lorry crashes into a house at Burley-in-Wharfdale, Yorkshire, killing 19 soldiers.
• October – A United States Army bus collides with a lorry near Marlborough, Wiltshire, killing 10 soldiers and injuring 21.

1946

• November – A bomber hits an RAF bus at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, killing 8 airmen and injuring 14.

1947

• October – A bus crashes into a building at Holmfirth, Yorkshire, killing 9 people.

1948

• January – A bus skids into a bus queue at Bargeddie, near Glasgow, Scotland, killing 8 people and injuring 12.

1950

• May – A bus and a tram collide in Glasgow, killing 7 people and injuring 43.

1950s

1951

• December 4 – Gillingham bus disaster: A bus plows into a column of marching marine cadets in Gillingham, Kent, England killing 24 boys and injuring 18.

1954

• 29 September – The brakes and gear box of a Belgian tourist bus fail on the downhill slope of the Cauberg, near Valkenburg aan de Geul. The out of control vehicle hits a pedestrian, then a monument and a building. 12 people are killed instantly, 7 (including the pedestrian) die in hospital.

1959

• 20 June – A crowded bus collides with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen, West Germany killing 45, the worst bus accident in German history.

1960

• 1960 – A bus carrying students plunges into a river in Brazil killing 59.

1960s

1963

• – February 7 – 15 die in Northland, New Zealand, when a bus leaves the road and hit a pole. Worst road accident in New Zealand history.

1965

• 1 November – A crowded trolley bus plunges into Nile River in Cairo, Egypt killing 74.

1966

• 25 July – A bus carrying Belgian children from vacation plunges off a West German autobahn bridge and crashes on its roof. 33 are killed, including 27 children and the bus driver who fell asleep behind the wheel. Only 4 people survive.
• October 7 – Dorion level crossing accident: 19 are killed when a schoolbus is hit by a CN train in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada.

1967

• December 15 – Silver Bridge collapses under heavy traffic in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, killing 46.

1968

• January 6 – A passenger train hits a low-loader transporter and derails, killing 11 and injuring 45 in Hixon, England.

1970s

1971

• 10 May – A crowded bus plunges into a reservoir in South Korea killing 75.

1972

• 18 February – A crowded bus plunges into a canal in Egypt killing 77.
• March 22 – Congers, New York, five Nyack High School students killed and 44 injured when a train hits a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident led New York State to require school vehicles stop at all railroad crossings.
• 25 August – In a sudden dense fog on highway A16 near Prinsenbeek, many cars and trucks collide. 13 lives were lost in the crash and subsequent fires. After this accident, a fog warning system was installed along the route. Nevertheless, almost 20 years later a similar accident happened.

1973

• July 18 – A bus carrying Belgian tourists plunges into a ravine in Vizille, France killing 43.

1974

• 4 February – 12 people, including nine soldiers are killed in the IRA's M62 coach bombing in Yorkshire, England.
• 28 July – A crowded bus and a truck collide near Belem, Brazil killing 69.

1975

• 27 May – Dibble's Bridge bus crash, England, bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge, killing 38.
• 13 September – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Costa Rica killing 48.

1976

• May 21 – A bus carrying the Yuba City High School A'Capella choir flies off I-680, killing 28 students and teacher.

1977

• June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight and injuring 18.

1978

• July 11 – Los Alfaques Disaster: in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, a tanker containing 45 m³ liquefied propylene leaves the road and veers into in the Los Alfaques camping site after colliding with a building. The resulting fire ball is over 100 m in diameter and kills at least 215 (some sources speak of 216 or even 270), and injures 200 people.
• 4 August – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman, Quebec, Canada killing 40. Only seven survive.

1979

• 10 April – A bus carrying children plunges into a river in Spain killing 48, including 44 children.

1980

• 3 March – 23 are burned to death when city bus 62 catches fire in Minsk, Belarus after driving into a pool of gasoline spilled from a fuel truck.
• 9 May – 35 are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida, after a freighter collided with a bridge pier, knocking down over 1200 ft. of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
• June 5 – A tour bus rolls off the highway near Jasper, Arkansas, killing 22 and injuring 19.
• 29 June – A bus plunges into a canal near Mirpur, Pakistan, and at least 90 people drown as a result.

1980s

1981

• September 29 – A head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Toledo province, Spain, kills at least 25 people.

1982

• 31 January – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, killing 14 and injuring 70.
• 31 July – Two buses carrying children collide with cars and burst into flames in Beaune, France killing 53, including 44 children. Worst highway crash in France.
• 12 September – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near Zurich, Switzerland killing 39. The barriers were not closed, because the operator pressed a wrong button. Only two passengers survive the crash.
• 3 November – Hundreds are killed in the Salang tunnel fire in Central Afghanistan, following a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as high as 2,000 dead.

1983

• November 1 – A bus collides with a motorcycle and hits a second bus 370 miles northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 21 and injuring 40.

1984

• September 24 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 34 and injuring 11.

1985

• January 28 – A bus carrying skiers plunges into a reservoir in Nagano, Japan killing 25.
• 22 September – School bus rolls over in Leiah, Pakistan, killing 30 children

1986

• 23 May – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province, Philippines, killing 23 and injuring 15.
• 30 May – A tour bus plunges into the West Walker River near Walker California killing 21 and injuring 19.
• July 26 – Lockington rail crash: A train derails after colliding with a Ford Escort at a rail crossing in Lockington, England, killing 8 aboard the train and one aboard the car.
• 8 October – A tour bus plunges into a ravine in Taiwan killing 39.

1987

• January 21 – A truck and a bus collide near Temuco, Chile killing 43.
• 29 March – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi Province, China, killing 19 and injuring 28.
• 12 December – A bus collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Egypt, killing 57 children and injuring 58.

1988

• 14 May – 27 die in the Carrollton bus disaster near Carrollton, Kentucky after a collision with a drunk driver driving the wrong way on Interstate 71.
• 12 August – Two buses collide on the highway between Teheran and Tabriz in northern Iran, killing 30 and injuring 50.
• 15 August – Bus plows into a concrete wall in a tunnel 60 miles outside of Bergen, Norway, killing 12 and injuring 19.
• 22 September – Bus falls into a ravine near Simla, India, 35 people die
• October 12 – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi Province, China, killing 43 and injuring 40.

1989

• January 17 – 51 die and 110 are injured when a bus collides with a train at a level crossing 45 miles south of Columbo, Sri Lanka.
• October 20 – 21 die in the Grafton bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Grafton in Australia.
• 12 December – 35 are killed in the Kempsey bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Kempsey.

1990

• 22 January – 1990 Karak Highway crash: 15 die in a collision between FRU riot police vehicles, tankers lorry, passenger bus and 10 cars on the Karak Expressway, Malaysia.
• 22 April – Two buses collide in Havana, Cuba, killing 11 and seriously injuring 13.
• 8 July – A bus ignores a barrier at a railroad crossing and collides with a passenger train near Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia, killing 27 (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. The bus driver is slightly injured.
• 9 November – Almost at the same spot and with the same cause of the August 25, 1972 accident: in sudden dense fog on highway A16 west of Breda, several cars and trucks collide in a huge pile-up. 10 die and 28 are injured.
• 22 November – A bus ignores a red light and collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Donetsk, Ukraine, killing 19 and wounding 13, though the bus driver is not injured.
• December 11 – A 99 cars pile-up due to fog on I-75 near Calhoun, Tennessee results in 12 deaths and 42 injured.
• 30 December – 56 die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway between Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don in Russia, USSR.

1990s

1991

• 15 February – In Southern Thailand a truck carrying dynamite to a stone quarry suddenly and catastrophically explodes, killing between 122 and 180 villagers.
• 4 August – A crowded bus carrying school children crashes in Zimbabwe killing 87, including 82 children.
• 7 August – The brakes of a Hungarian tourist bus fail in Styria, killing 15 and injuring 28.
• November 29 – A dust storm on I-5 near Coalinga, California triggers a 164-vehicle pile up that leaves 17 dead and 150 injured.

1992

• 19 August – A bus falls down an embankment on the A7 highway in Spain, killing 45 and injuring 11.
• 6 September – Near Donaueschingen in the Black Forest, a bus collides into a passenger car and is slit open by a crash barrier. 21 die, 32 are seriously injured.

1993

• 9 January – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in Argentina, killing 55 and injuring 70.
• 10 November – A fiery pile-up on A10 near Mirambeau, France leaves 15 dead and 53 injured.
• 17 November – The M40 Minibus Crash leaves 12 children dead when their minibus collides with a maintenance vehicle near Warwick, England, sparking new road security campaigns.

1994

• 2 May – 1994 Poland bus disaster: 32 die in collision between a PKS bus and a tree near Gdansk.

1995

• 25 October – Fox River Grove level crossing accident, Illinois, United States kills seven when a school bus is hit by a train.

1996

• 25 February – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia, killing at least 35.
• 28 February – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen, Spain, killing 29 and injuring 17.

1997

• January 14 – A crowded city bus plunges into the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, killing 39 people and injuring 24.
• January 19 – A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab, India, killing 29 and injuring 12.
• October 13 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident in Quebec, Canada, results in 44 deaths when a bus plunges into a ravine. Worse bus accident in Canadian history.
• November 6 – A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province, Cuba, killing at least 56 people.

1998

• January 5 – 43 people were killed and more than 60 seriously injured when a bus plunged down a steep slope in Nyanga district, after the brakes of a bus failed.
• April 15 – A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, South Africa, killing 31, including 27 children.
• September 8 – A tanker truck flips and explodes on a highway north of São Paulo, Brazil, setting fire to two buses and killing at least 50.

1999

• January 24 – A bus carrying Hungarian tourists crashes in Austria killing 18 and injuring 32.
• 15 March – 1999 Bourbonnais train accident: the City of New Orleans collides with a truck and derails in Bourbonnais, Illinois, United States, killing 11.
• & 24 March – 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire.
• 9 May – A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing 22 and injuring 24.
• July 24 – A trailer truck crashes into cars slowed by roadwork on Quebec Autoroute 20 near Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, killing 4 and injuring 11. A public investigation is launched.
• 3 September – Dense fog on Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario reduces visibility to less than a meter (3 feet) and causes a 87 vehicles pileup and fire that kills 8 and injures 33. Many vehicles are fused together by the intense heat.
• May 29 – 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel in Austria.

2000

• 29 March – 74 people died in a collision between two buses in Kerichko, Kenya.
• 13 May - A bus carrying Muslim pilgrims plunges into a river in Bosnia killing 43.
• 18 June – Lax security regulation enforcement causes the overpasses of Quebec Autoroute 15 to collapse over Boulevard du Souvenir, in Laval, Quebec, during renovation, killing one and injuring two.
• 6 July – A truck collides with a charter bus near Soria, Spain, killing at least 27 people.
• 7 July- A bus plunges into a river in Liuzhou, Guangxi province killing all 78 aboard.
• 28 August – Abuja bus crash riots, Abuja, Nigeria, Seventy people are killed in a bus pile up in Abuja. The next day, related protest riots kill four more people.
• 12 October – Owerri bus crash, Nigeria, Fifty people die when a bus collides with fuel tanker, which explodes.
• 6 November – Lagos tanker disaster, Lagos, Nigeria, Between 100 and 200 people are killed when a petrol tanker loses control, slams into a traffic jam and explodes.
• 24 November – Benin City bus crash, Nigeria, Sixty people die when bus falls into a ravine.
• 24 December – A bus traveling from Cape Town to Butterworth plunges off a mountain road in South Africa, leaving 20 passengers dead and 55 injured.

2000s

2001

• 16 February – 13 people killed in the Gracanica bus bombing in Kosovo.
• 28 February – Selby rail crash: A car falls off a M62 motorway bridge on railroad tracks, causing the derailment of a passenger train an dits subsequent collision with a freight train near Selby, England. 10 are killed and 82 injured.
• March 4 – 70+ killed in the Hintze Ribeiro disaster when a bridge collapsed as a bus was crossing the Douro in Portugal.
• March 24 – 14 are killed and over 20 injured when a bus swerves off the road into a ravine in Santa Comba Dão.
• 26 June – A bus swerves and hits a ditch 80 miles southwest of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, killing 41 people.
• 10 August – An overcrowded bus falls into a river in Xinjiang, China, while traveling from Urumqi to Xinhe County, killing 34 people.
• 17 August – A bus and a truck collide head-on on a road between Kerman and Sirjan in Iran, killing 30 people.
• 24 October – 11 people die in the Gotthard Road Tunnel after two lorries collide, resulting in a fire.
• 14 November – A bus flips over on a road near Huelva, Spain, killing 19 people.
• 14 December – 52 pilgrims killed in Aqaba bus crash in Jordan.

2002

• 19 April - A bus carrying construction workers plunges off a mountain road near Salalah, Oman killing 46 in country's worst ever road accident.
• 23 April – A steamroller falls off a truck and crushes a bus 70 miles north of Ufa, Russia, killing 14 people.
• 8 May – 14 people die in the suicide bombing of a bus in Karachi.
• 26 May – 14 die in the The I-40 Bridge Disaster on Interstate 40, near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma when a barge collided with a bridge support, causing a 580-foot section of the bridge to plunge into the Arkansas River.
• 15 June – A truck and a bus crash head-on on a highway in North Chungchong, South Korea, killing 15 and seriously injuring about 20 people.
• 19 July – Over 70 die when a bus is hit by a runaway fuel tanker at Rutoto in Uganda.
• 18 August – A bus falls into a ravine and overturns near Yantikovo, Chuvashia, Russia, killing 21 and injuring 37.
• October – 10 die on Interstate 43 just south of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin in a fiery 38 car pileup caused by low visibility due to fog. The accident is considered the worst traffic accident in Wisconsin state history.
• 16 November – A bus crash in Cuesta del Totoral in Northern Argentina kills over fifty people.

2003

• 24 January – A bus crashes into buildings before bursting into flames, killing 14 in Slawi , Indonesia.
• 1 May – 80 people drown in the Bethlehem bus crash, when the driver drove off a dam and into a reservoir.
• 13 April – 21 students killed in collision between their bus and a truck in Tembi, near Larissa, Greece.
• April 16 – A truck and a bus collide on a main highway in Cuba killing 30 and injuring 71.
• May 9 – 24 are killed, nearly as much injured, when a bus spins out of control and collides with an oil tanker near Shorkot.
• May 17 – A double-decker bus carrying German tourists crashes on a highway near Lyon, France killing 28 and injuring 46 passengers.
• 4 June – 30 people die in the Kasganj bus disaster, when a bus attempted to cross a closed level crossing in India and was sliced in half by a train.
• 10 July – 21 killed in the Tuen Mun Road bus accident, Hong Kong, when a bus plunged off a motorway viaduct after being hit by lorry. Worst road accident in history of the Territory.
• 10 September – A bus and a truck collide at high speed during heavy rain near the city of Valencia, Venezuela, killing 34.
• September 20 – A bus and a train collide near Malak Wal in Pakistani Punjab, killing over 40.
• October 9 – 59 people, mostly schoolgirls, are killed in a three–way collision between a bus, a truck and a minivan near Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
• 23 November – 14 passengers were killed in a bus tragedy at kilometre 63 of Lipis–Merapoh road (Federal route 8) near Merapoh, Pahang.

2004

• 9 January – Bhakkar bus crash, Pakistan, at least 56 die as bus rolls into a ravine.
• 22 February – A bus tumbles off a dam into a reservoir near Fortaleza, Brazil, killing over 40 people
• 19 March – 23 people killed in the Konginkangas bus disaster, Finland.
• 16 June – Islamabad, Pakistan, at least 50 die in collision between a bus and a tractor.
• 24 June – A tanker carrying 17,000 litres of petrol collides with a bus in Zahedan, near Bam, Iran. 90 people are killed.
• 30 July – A Turkish travel bus and an Iranian truck collide head-on near Erzurum and Erzincan in Eastern Anatolia, killing 26 and injuring 30.
• 6 November – Seven are killed and 71 injured when a passenger train hits a car and derails near Ufton Nervet, England.

2005

• 3 January – A truck overloaded with Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims overturns in Qinghai province, China killing 54.
• 6 January – A truck and a bus collide on a highway in Fujian province, China killing 28 and injuring 19.
• 3 February – 55 wedding guests die in the Nagpur level crossing disaster, India.
• 8 March – A school bus catches fire in Shandong, China, killing 12 children.
• 21 April – 31 war veterans die in bus crash on the old Ho Chi Minh trail, Vietnam.
• 27 April – over 50 people are killed in the Polgahawela level crossing collision when a bus is hit by train.
• 22 May – 35 are killed in the Jauja bus disaster, Peru when a bus plunges off a bridge.
• 7 June – 38 people killed in the Badarmude bus explosion, when a bus struck a land mine.
• 23 September – 24 elderly people died when their bus catches fire and burns as they flee Hurricane Rita near Wilmer, Texas.
• 15 October – A speeding bus falls into a river in Bogra District, Bangladesh, killing 25 people.
• 24 December – A bus plunges into the icy Yellow River in Hanggin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China, killing 28.

2006

• 13 January – A bus collides with a train in heavy fog in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, killing 21 people.
• 20 January – A bus plunges off a road and into a 300-foot gorge in Rajouri, India, killing about 50 people and injuring 15.
• 23 January – Two buses collide head on in Sao Paulo State in Brazil, killing 33 people.
• 7 February – 12 Turkish tourists die when their bus plunges into a ravine in Rome, Italy.
• 8 February – Cardross road accident: 6 teens are killed in an alleged hit and run accident in Cardross, Australia.
• 17 February – One killed, 2 injured in a massive 60-cars pile-up on Quebec Autoroute 40 near Lavaltrie, Quebec.
• 22 March – Twelve Americans die when a tour bus falls into a canyon near Arica, Chile.
• 17 April – 57 people die in the Maltrata bus crash in central Mexico.
• 20 April – At least 47 die when bus falls into a lake at Sarupeta, India
• 16 May – At least 35 die when two buses collide head-on near Kumasi, Ghana
• 26 May – A crashed fuel tanker leaked patrol onto a roadway in Tega, Benin, which exploded as local people tried to collect it, killing between 54 and 75.
• 15 June – A bus carrying 45 miners from the Uchucchacua mine to Lima in Peru fell into a ravine, killing 28 people.
• 23 June – Sinai bus crash: 11 Arab Israeli tourists are killed when their bus overturns. The survivors later initiate legal action, asserting the crash was actually a terrorist attack.
• 24 September – Forty-seven people die when a bus crashes into a wall on a road in Papallacta, Ecuador.
• 13 September – De la Concorde Overpass collapse: Five are killed an six injured when a 65-feet section of a 3-lanes overpass over Quebec Autoroute 19 collapses in Laval, Quebec. The incident sparks a province-wide inspection of sometimes decades old overpasses.
• 1 October – Thirty killed as a bus falls off a bridge into the Jialing River in Chongqing, China.
• 3 October – Twelve killed and 16 injured when a truck and a bus collide near Menbej, in northwest Syria.
• 8 October – Forty-two people die when a bus falls down a ravine during foggy and rainy conditions in Chiantla, Guatemala.
• 8 October – A double-decker bus crashes into a truck in northern Argentina, killing 12 people.
• 9 October – Twelve people helping in Typhoon Xangsane relief efforts are killed in a van accident in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam.
• 15 October – Two buses and a truck collide in Sivas Province, Turkey, killing 13 and injuring more than 20.
• 19 October – A bus overcrowded with passengers plunges into a reservoir in Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 56 people.
• 21 October – A bus plunges off a mountain road between Sucre and Cochabamba in Bolivia, killing 29 and injuring 25.
• 23 October – A bus catches fire in downtown Panama City, killing 18 people.
• 25 October – A bus falls off the road and into the Teesta River in Sikkim, India, killing 25 and injuring 45.
• 26 October – A bus crashes down an embankment near Arequipa, Peru, killing 20 and injuring 12.
• 28 October – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Nepal, killing 42 and injuring 43.
• 31 October – Floods sweep away a minibus travelling in Diyarbakir Province, Turkey, killing 14 people.
• 8 November – A truck transporting farm workers plunges into a river in Hoshangabad District, India, killing 29 and injuring 30.
• 13 November – A truck carrying workers is hit by a train near Cape Town, South Africa. 19 are killed and 6 injured.
• 14 November – A bus plunges into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 13 and injuring 41.
• 26 November – A truck carrying passengers veers off the road on a sharp curve in Tamil Nadu, India, killing 17 and injuring 57.
• 3 December – A tour bus carrying 45 plunges into a valley in Tainan, Taiwan, killing 22 and injuring 23.
• 4 December – A bus plunges into a ravine on a mountain road in Puno Region, Peru, killing 45 people.
• 7 December – A truck hits a bus, causing it to fall from a highway bridge in Byala, Bulgaria, and killing 19 people.
• 9 December – A trailer dislodges from a moving truck and crashes into a bus on a mountain road in Mae Sot district, Tak Province, Thailand, killing 12 and injuring 20.
• 13 December – A bus plunges into a river after colliding with a truck on a mountain road near Bagua, Peru, killing 21 and injuring 30.
• 24 December – A bus goes out of control, overturns and smashes into bridge supports near Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, killing 12 and injuring 40.
• 25 December – Two minivans collide in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, causing a methane explosion that kills 13 people.

2007

• 6 January – A bus travelling from Dhaka to Chittagong crashes and catches fire near Comilla, Bangladesh, killing from 55 to 70 people.
• 6 January – Eight are injured when a 100-feet wide avalanche buries cars or pushes them off U.S. Route 40 in Colorado just outside Denver, United States.
• 12 January – Two buses collide near the border between Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, killing 22 hajj pilgrims.
• 15 January – A bus collides head-on with a tractor-trailer in Cesar Department, Colombia, killing 20 people.
• 19 January – A double-decker bus plunges into a river near Chiang Mai, Thailand, killing 22 people.
• 22 January – A speeding bus overturns 250 miles northeast of Kampala, Uganda, leading to 21 deaths and 30 injuries.
• 24 January – A bus falls into a ravine near Huautla, Oaxaca, Mexico, killing at least 29 and injuring over 24.
• 27 January – A truck collides head-on with a speeding bus on the highway between Aleppo and Ar Raqqah in northern Syria, killing 26 people, including six children, and injuring six others.
• 1 February – A truck veers off its lane and rams into a bus in Ghana, killing 16.
• 2 February – A tanker carrying liquefied carbon dioxide crashes, overturns and explodes in Tigbao, Philippines, killing 50 and injuring 65.
• 8 February – A train collides with a bus at a level crossing in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, killing 13 and injuring 24.
• 19 February – Two buses collide near Makhado, South Africa, killing 17 and injuring 45.
• 22 February – A bus crashed into a crowd celebrating the Carnival in Oruro, Bolivia, killing 15 people.
• 2 March – 7 people are killed when a bus transporting the Bluffton University baseball team crashes through a barrier and lands on Interstate 75 near Atlanta, Georgia.
• 6 March – A bus collides with a freight train at a level crossing in Harare, Zimbabwe, killing 37 people.
• 15 March – A minibus overturns and falls into a valley in Yunnan, China, killing 14 and injuring 12.
• 15 March – A bus veers off the road and plunges into a reservoir in Hanzhong, China, killing at least 22 and injuring 11.
• 17 March – A bus overturns and falls into a ditch in Purulia District, India, killing 16 and injuring 67.
• 18 March – A bridge collapses near Gueckedou, Guinea, sending an overloaded truck plunging into a river and killing at least 70 people.
• 20 March – A bus catches fire and has its brakes fail on a mountain road in Saraburi Province, Thailand, killing 29 and injuring more than 10.
• 23 March – A bus and a wagon collide on a highway in Khairpur District, Pakistan, killing at least 13.
• 5 April – A rear tire blows out on a truck as it travels near Santa Marta, Colombia, causing it to flip and explode and leading to a fire that kills 27.
• 8 April – A truck strikes a bus on a highway bridge in western Iran, causing the bus to tumble into a valley and killing 26. An additional 18 were injured.
• 10 April – A passenger bus overturns on a highway near Rabat, Morocco, killing 12 and injuring 43.
• 10 April – A bus travelling from Galle to Colombo in Sri Lanka collides with a beer delivery truck about 40 miles south of Colombo, killing 23 and injuring 56.
• 14 April – A bus transporting children from Izmir to Cappadocia collides with a truck near Aksaray, Turkey, killing 33, mostly children, and injuring 35.
• 14 April – A bus and a truck collide near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, causing the truck's gas tank to explode. Twenty-eight were killed and 21 were injured. Some passengers say the bus driver might have fallen asleep.
• 14 April – A bus crashes in northern Kenya, killing 15 and injuring 61.
• 19 April – A bus falls down a 150-meter cliff on the road between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 26 and injuring 19.
• 23 April – A bus drives off a highway overpass and falls 65 feet in Chongqing, China, killing 24 and injuring seven. Slippery road conditions may have been to blame.
• 25 April – A bus drives off a mountain road and falls 300 feet into a stream near Poonch, India, killing 22 and injuring 14.
• 29 April – A tanker carrying gasoline catches fire in the MacArthur Maze, in Oakland, United States, causing 2 sections of bridge, one of which carries I-580, to collapse. The driver escapes with burns, nobody else is injured.
• 4 May – A truck collides with two other vehicles and crashes into a crowd waiting for a bus in Lincang, China, killing 16 and injuring more than 40.
• 6 May – A speeding bus veers off a mountain road and falls into a ravine 30 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 21 Muslim pilgrims.
• 7 May – A bus drives off a road and plunges 20 meters into a cornfield in Guizhou, China, killing 17 and injuring 25.
• 7 May – A speeding bus and a truck collide 90 km north of Maseru, Lesotho, killing 39 and injuring 54.
• 10 May – A bus travelling from Ivory Coast to Togo collides with a truck full of cocoa near Winneba, Ghana, after which another truck and several other vehicles crash into the accident site. About 40 people are killed.
• 11 May – A bus swerves on the road, loses control and falls into the Ganges riverbed near Patna, India, killing 20 and injuring 12.
• 13 May – Three buses collide in Rivers State, Nigeria, causing a large explosion that kills at least 50 people.
• 14 May – An oil tanker, bus and truck collide about 40 miles south of Ahmedabad, India, killing at least 30 people.
• 18 May – Two buses collide on a highway between Zulia and Lara in Venezuela, killing 17 and injuring 20.
• 20 May – A three-wheeled tractor with a cargo trailer overturns on a mountain road in Liaoning, China, killing 20 women.
• 23 May – A bus travelling from Mosul, Iraq overturns on a highway in Syria, 250 miles north of Damascus, killing 14 and injuring 20.
• 18 June – A truck hits a bus on a highway between Halle and Magdeburg, Germany, causing it to plunge down an embankment. Thirteen are killed and 31 are injured.
• July 1 – A bus and a truck collide on the Pan-American Highway in northern Peru, killing 24.
• July 2 – 19 are killed and 25 injured when a Solan-bound bus rolls off 300 meters into a ravine near Shimla, India.
• July 3 – Two buses collide in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, killing 12 and injuring a further 58.
• July 4 – A landslide buries a bus near Eloxochitlan in the state of Puebla, Mexico. 32 bodies are recovered before the serach is ended.
• July 13 – A tour bus traveling from Lhasa to Shigatse plunges into the Yarlung Tsangpo River about 55 miles west of Lhasa in Tibet, killing 14 and injuring 13.
• July 22– a polish bus with pilgrims overturns, plunges and burns in french Alps in Notre-Dame-de-Mésage, near Vizille, Isère, France killing 26 and injured 24.
• August 2 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during afternoon rush hour, killing at least 7 and injuring over seventy.

See also

• List of bridge disasters
• List of rail accidents - includes level crossing accidents.
• Accidents

External links

• Partial list of Highway disasters
• Descansos.org :: Project to create awareness for victims of vehicular fatalities. Painting the story of victims to create love, peace and public awareness.