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1963 Chualar bus crash, Chualar, California; 32 killed plus 25 injured. Remains the deadliest U.S. traffic accident to date and California's deadliest to involve a train; also one of a series of events that led to closer scrutiny of migrant labor conditions and fueled the emergence of the chicano and farmworkers labor movements [179] [180]
Nov. 17—Two tractor trailer accidents on the section of Interstate 40 winding through the Pigeon River Gorge led to traffic slow downs and a wildfire. Both were single vehicle accidents and had ...
The last section of I-40 in Oklahoma, a 17-mile (27 km) stretch near Erick near the western end of the state, opened on June 2, 1975. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In 1971, the North Carolina State Highway Commission approved a plan to extend I-40 from Research Triangle Park to I-95 , a distance of 41 miles (66 km), at a cost of $75 million (equivalent to $432 ...
In 1957, the California Department of Highways proposed that the route be numbered as I-30 because of the already existing US 40 in the state. However, this was rejected, and, eventually, US 40 was decommissioned in favor of I-80. Today, the Needles Freeway replaced the former US 66 across the Mojave Desert.
Two police cars belonging to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department were part of a three car accident that occurred at 2:45 pm local time on Saturday near the West Oakland train station near ...
The crash happened on the westbound side of I-40 near Wade Avenue at 1:49 p.m., the N.C. Department of Transportation reported. DOT announced shortly after 9 p.m. that the crash had been cleared.
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San Francisco, California The crash occurred in 1982 in San Francisco, California when a van ran a red light and crashed into the vehicle that Janet, her husband Paul Gregor, actress Mary Martin and her manager were in. Janet died of her injuries two years thereafter in a Palm Springs, California, hospital along with pneumonia and other ailments.