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Lawsuits against kidnappers settled for undisclosed amounts. On July 15, 1976, in Chowchilla, California, three armed men hijacked a school bus. They abducted the driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, and imprisoned them in a truck trailer buried in a quarry in Livermore, California. The bus driver and children managed to escape before the ...
The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.
1. On September 27, 28-year-old Samuel George shot at 13-year-old Curtis McGuffie with a .22-caliber rifle outside Bleyl Middle School in Houston, Texas. The following day, George shot and wounded 10-year-old Joshua Baker Littell as he raised the American flag at Millsap Elementary School in Cypress, Texas.
More. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children and holding them and their driver for $5 million ransom in 1976 was recommended for ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
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 [177] [178]
The Chualar bus crash took place on September 17, 1963, when a freight train collided with a makeshift "bus"— a flatbed truck with two long benches and a canopy— carrying 58 migrant farmworkers on a railroad crossing outside Chualar in the Salinas Valley, California, United States, killing 32 people and injuring 25.
A school bus at a stop light overextended onto railroad tracks and was struck by a Metra train. Bourbonnais train accident – 1999 – An Amtrak train collided with a semi-truck and derailed most of the train. 11 killed. Polk County, Tennessee – March 28, 2000 – 3 killed, CSX freight train strikes a school bus at an unsignalled crossing. [194]