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June 6 – United States – An early morning collision occurred 7 mi (11 km) north of Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulled in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes. It killed 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history. [19]
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.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... This is the list of rail accident lists. Lists. By year. Before 1880; 1880–1889; 1890–1899; 1900–1909;
1833 Hightstown rail accident, Hightstown, New Jersey; two killed plus 15 injured. Earliest recorded train accident involving the death of passengers. [1] [2] 1837 Suffolk head-on collision, Suffolk, Virginia; 3 killed plus dozens injured. Later in the year, a second accident resulted in ten injuries, with two of them ultimately dying. [3]
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List of airship accidents; List of ballooning accidents; List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters; List of elevator accidents; List of maritime disasters. List of shipwrecks; List of boiler explosions; List of rail accidents. List of boiler explosions; List of tram accidents; List of tanker explosions; List of road accidents. List ...
The list includes notable accidents with at least 5 deaths, which either occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other significance. For crashes that killed notable people, refer to the list of people who died in traffic collisions. This list records crashes from the year 2000. For earlier crashes, see list of traffic collisions (before ...
On May 24, 2003, a woman was beheaded in an accident with a cargo lift that occurred at a supermarket in Nerja, Malaga, Spain. The victim, a worker for a company in charge of cleaning the establishment, put the car with her tools in the cargolift and went to an upper floor to collect it by inserting her head into the elevator shaft, at the time ...