List of road accidents 2000-2009
Encyclopedia
List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those which took a high death toll
, occurred in unusual circumstances, or hold some other historical significance. For crashes in which famous people died, please refer to List of people who died in road accidents. The prevalence of bus accidents in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency.
–Shahdadpur
regular route bus collides with a truck carrying local wedding couples and families plunges at Saifullah Shaikh canal, Balochistan
, Pakistan, killing 50, another 25 are injured. 29 March – 74 people die in a collision between two buses in Kerichko, Kenya. 13 May - A bus carrying Muslim
pilgrims plunges 60 feet below into the Buna River at Buna
, Neretva
, Bosnia
killing 43, another 12 are injured. 18 June – Lax security regulation enforcement causes the overpasses of Autoroute 15
to collapse over Boulevard du Souvenir, in Laval, Quebec
, during renovation, killing one and injuring two. July 6 – A bus carrying workers to Madrid
collided with a truck carrying pigs at the outskirt of Soria
, Spain, killing 27, another 23 are injured. 7 July – A bus plunges into a river in Liuzhou
, Guangxi
province killing all 78 aboard. July 11 – A bus carrying 39 passengers on board, plunged into a deep ravine at Sarangan, Merapi Ketep, Indonesia, killing 10, another 13 are injured in an incident caused by brake failure. 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. September 10 – A Shiliguri–Darjeeling regular route bus carrying 50 passengers on board and some passengers, has vehicle on roof plunged Tista River, when driver approaching a bridge, lost control before exceed speed at Sivok, West Bengal
, India, killing 20, and many passengers injured. 12 October – Owerri bus crash, Nigeria, Fifty people die when a bus collides with fuel tanker
, which explodes. October 22 – Two regular route buses collided on a bridge at outskirt of Jhang
, Punjab
of Pakistan, killing 40, another 75 are injured. 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. November 7 – A Nairobi
–Mombasa
regular route bus with 80 passengers on board, plunged a bridge at outskirt of Meru
, Eastern Kenya
, in an incident caused by excess speeds, killing 45. 24 November – Benin City bus crash, Nigeria, Sixty people die when bus falls into a ravine. November 27 – A Chiang Mai
–Bangkok
regular route bus crashes and drops off a bridge, plunging into a canal at Mae Prik, Lampang
, Thailand, killing 20, another 16 are injured. 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. 24 December – A Cotobato-Davao
regular route bus carrying Christmas travelers plunges 60 feet down into a ravine at outskirts of Bansalan, Mindanao
, Philippines, killing 30, 12 more are injured.
: A car falls off a M62 motorway
bridge on railroad tracks, causing the derailment of a passenger train and its subsequent collision with a freight train near Selby
, England. 10 are killed and 82 injured. March 1 – A bus skidded off a road and plunged into Ravi River
, outskirt of Chamba, Himachal Pradesh
, India, at least forty dead. March 4 – 70+ killed in the Hintze Ribeiro disaster
when a bridge collapsed as a bus was crossing the Douro
in Portugal. March 6 – A local bus rammed into a tree on a sharp bend on a road as a result of lost control in Amphoe Mueang Phetchabun
, Phetchabun
, Thailand, killing 16, injuring another 20. March 24 – 14 are killed and over 20 injured when a bus swerves off the road into a ravine in Santa Comba Dão
. April 8 – A minibus hit a bull, before colliding with another bus at Songea Rual, Ruvuma, Tanzania, in an incident caused by excessive speed, killing 21. 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. August 15 – A minibus severed off the road and plunged into the Mwania River, outskirt of Machakos
, Eastern Kenya
, killing 23, another 10 are injured. 17 August – A bus and a truck collide on a road between Kerman
and Sirjan
in Iran
, killing 30 people. August 26 – A Lagos
–Kano
regular route bus, carrying 72 passengers, veers into a Dakatsalle bridge, Kura
, Kaduna
, Nigeria, killing 49, another 23 are injured. 24 October – 11 people die in the Gotthard Road Tunnel
after two lorries collide, resulting in a fire. November 3 – A passenger bus plunged into george, when a bus driver failed to make a sharp turn on a hill at Saderkote, Jammu and Kashimir, India, killing twenty and injuring thirty-three. 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
. December 28 – Two crowded buses collide, one bus falls into a road side ditch at outskirt of Bogra
, Rajshahi
, Bangladesh, killing 35.
regular route bus driver lost control while trying to cross a bridge at an excessive speed and plunged over 35 feet into the river at Aminbazar, Savar
, Bangladesh, killing 30, many more passengers were injured. February 17 – Two buses collided, both carrying travelers by Lunar New Year holiday, where a bus crashed at Hechuan
, Henan
, China, killing 25, injuring another 12. March 13 – An Ayacucho
–Lima
regular route bus burst into flames, before skidding out of control and hitting a gasoline station at Chincha Alta
, Ica
, Peru, killing 35. 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. 26 May – 14 die in 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
. May 27 – A Ghatakpukur-Kolkatta route bus carrying office workers veers off and falls into a pond at Chowbagha, West Bengal
, India, killing 46, in an incident involving excessive speed and a burst tire. June 2 – A bus carrying pilgrims bound for Multan
, falls off a bridge in Jhelum, Punjab
of Pakistan, in an incident caused by the driver losing control of the vehicle, killing 40, another 10 injured. 15 June – A truck and a bus collide on a highway in North Chungchong, South Korea, killing 15 and seriously injuring another 20 people. July 2 – A Damri public bus carrying children and parents from Jenbar plunged into a 24 feet (7.3 m) ravine at Arjasa, East Java
, Indonesia, killing 26, another 44 are injured. July 7 – A bus carrying Polish
tourists slides off the road and overturns in Balatonszentgyorgy
, Somogy, Hungary, in an incident caused by excessive speed, killing 19, another 31 are injured. 19 July – Over 70 die when a bus is hit by a runaway fuel tanker at Rutoto in Uganda
. August 7 – A Guerrero
–Guadalajara
regular route bus slammed into a concrete wall at Zinapecuaro, Michoacán
, Mexico, in an incident caused by a 26-years old bus driver involving excessive speed, killing 33, another 10 are injured. August 9 – An Urumqi
–Kashgar
regular route bus plunged off a bridge at the outskirts of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur, China, killing 34. August 18 – A bus falls into a ravine and overturns near Yantikovo, Chuvashia, Russia, killing 21 and injuring 37. August 18 – A bus carrying people returning from an annual religious festival at Nevsehir
, skidded off the road and overturned after brake failure at the outskirts of Tarsus
, Mersin
, Turkey, in an incident caused by excessive speed, killing 29, another 30 are injured. September 2 – A bus plummets 520 feet down a ravine at the outskirts of Coroico
, Nor Yungas, Bolivia, killing 29, another 25 are injured. September 7 – A bus attempted to pass a car and crashed into a truck at the outskirts of Mbozi
, Mbeya
, Tanzania, killing 27, another 43 are injured. September 12 – A van carrying migrant workers from Central America plunges off a bridge into a river in the State of Maine
, killing 14 workers in the state's worst ever road accident. October – 10 die in an accident on Interstate 43
in the state of Wisconsin
; the accident is considered the worst in state history. 16 November – A bus crash in Cuesta del Totoral in Northern Argentina
kills over fifty people. November 24 – A regular route bus smashed through an iron railing and plunged 42 feet down into the ravine at the outskirts of Tagkawayan, Quezon
, Philippines, killing 33, in an incident caused by mechanical failure.
, Indonesia. January 26 – A regular route bus veers into oncoming traffic and crashes into another regular route bus. Many vehicles piled up, including Kami Express and Felicite Express Voyages, occurring in Edéa
, Littoral Province, Cameroon, killing 70 people, and injuring 15. January 28 – A tourist bus crashes head-on into a truck carrying paint in Narayan Chand, West Bengal
, India, killing at least 40, another 15 are injured. March 9 – A charter bus near a Czech
ski tourist destination, collides with a truck in between České Budějovice
and Dolni Dvorisite, Bohemia
, Czech Republic, killing 19, another 30 are injured. March 9 – A regular route bus carrying Chinese citizens crashed and caught fire at the outskirts of Jeti Ojuz, Kyzyl Suu, Kyrgyzstan, killing 19. March 12 – A local passenger bus collided with a truck carrying cement at the outskirts of Podor
, Saint-Louis Region
, Senegal, killing 22. 13 April – 21 students killed in a 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. 1 May – 80 people drown in the Bethlehem bus crash
, when the driver drove off a dam and into a reservoir. May 9 – 24 are killed, nearly as many are 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. 4 June – 10 people are burnt to death, 19 sustained serious injuries and about 20 cars totally destroyed when a fuel tanker jackknifes, swerves into vehicles at traffic lights in rush hour and blasts into a huge fireball in downtown Amman, Jordan. 10 July – 21 killed in a Tuen Mun Road
bus accident, Hong Kong, when a bus plunged off a motorway viaduct
after being hit by lorry
. Worst road accident in the history of the territory. 11 June – Five people are killed when a lorry (truck) carrying armored vehicles jackknifes, sending the trailer through the guardrail and into oncoming traffic on the M1 August 22 – A regular route bus with 33 passengers on board, collided with a Petro truck, plunging into a ravine at an expressway in Yan'an
, Shanbei
, Shaanxi
, China, killing 23. 10 September – A bus and a truck collide at high speeds 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 1 – Multi-vehicle accident when a truck collides with a bus on Interstate 90
near Hampshire, Illinois
, killing 8 and injuring 15. October 9 – 59 people, mostly schoolgirls, are killed in a collision between a bus, a truck and a minivan near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 23 November – 14 passengers were killed in a bus tragedy
at kilometer 63 of Lipis and Merapoh roads (Federal Route 8
) near Merapoh
, Pahang
. December 17 – A regular São Paulo
–Fortaleza
long distance route bus falls 120 feet down a cliff, when driver loses control on a corner at the outskirts of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil, killing at least 20, another 40 are injured. December 18 – A chartered Simferopol
–Alushta
bus carrying local coal miners, veered off a mountain road and plunged into a deep ditch at Simferopolskyi, Crimea
, Ukraine, killing 17, another 19 are injured. December 20 – A German tourist bus smashed into a concrete highway barrier and burst into flames in Hensies
, a town on the Belgian
border with France, killing 11 people and injuring 37 others.
, Brazil, killing over 40 people 19 March – 23 people killed in the Konginkangas bus disaster, Finland. March 29 – A Gondar
–Adis Zemen regular route bus plunged into a gorge at on the outskirts of Libo Kemkem, Amhara
, Ethiopia, killing 37. April 1 – A local bus plunged off a road into Fuxi River at Zigong
, Sichuan
, China, killing 15, another 39 are injured. April 4 – A bus carrying 50 people(34 students & 16 teachers) crashes and falls in the river Lim on the border between Serbia
and Montenegro
close to the village of Gostun. 12 of the children drowned and a number of passengers were injured. The accident happened during night time. It is supposed that the driver lost control of the bus
. April 27 – A bus and a truck collides in Haima
, Oman, killing 21 people and injuring 13 others in one of the country's worst road accidents. May 24 – A bus carrying 54 passengers on board plunged into the verge of narrow road at on the outskirts of Korbous, Tunisia, in an incident caused by technical problem, killing 19, another 31 are injured. June 8 – A bus carrying wedding family and guest veered out of control and plunged into Bagmati river bridge at Runisaitpul, Bihar
, India, killing 65. 16 June – Islamabad
, Pakistan, at least 50 die in collision between a bus and a tractor. June 16 – A charter bus carrying Buddhism pilgrims plunged into a lake, and swerved to avoid another vehicle at outskirt of Xinyu
, Jiangxi
, China, killing 21, in an incident caused by driver has exceed speed. 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 Iran
ian truck collide head-on near Erzurum
and Erzincan
in Eastern Anatolia, killing 26 and injuring 30. August 15 – A local bus plunged to ravine at outskirt of Carolina
, San Miguel
, El Salvador, killing 35. September 12 – A Khoy
–Mashhad
regular route bus crush by overturned and exhaustion by bus driver at outskirt of Changureh, Avaj
, Iran, killing 18. October 12 – A charter Chongqing
–Jiuzhaigou
bus crashed into a wall, and plunged into the Fujiang River, Mianyang
, Pingwu, Sichuan
, China, killing 24, another 21 are injured. The incident was caused by the driver's excessive speed. 6 November – Seven are killed and 71 injured when a passenger train hits a car and derails
near Ufton Nervet
, England. November 7 – A trailer truck carrying sugar was passing a car and collided with a bus on the outskirts of Zafarana, Minya, Egypt
. The bus was carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca. 33 were killed, and 14 were injured. December 21 – A bus plunged 150-feet into a river while travelling a Lima
–Paccllpa mountainous jungle road in the outskirts of Aksaray
, Ucayali
, Peru, killing 49. Another 15 are injured. December 25 – A bus plunged into a deep ravine on the outskirts of Kuntrili, Punjab of Pakistan; the accident was caused when the bus driver lost control due to excessive speed, killing 18. Another 39 were injured.
an 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. January 10 – A bus failed to negotiate a sharp curve and plunged into Almatti Dam
, outskirt of Bijapur, Karnataka
, India, killing 57. January 16 – A local passenger bus collided with a trailer truck, where coming from the opposite directions at outskirt of La Sabana
, Santander
, Colombia, killing 27, another injuring are 29. January 21 – A passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged into 500-feet ravine, when the driver swerved to avoid rocks falling from the mountain side, between Shiraz
-Kazero, Mazandaran, Iran, killing 28. 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. April 17 – A bus carrying tourists slides 800 feet down a ravine at Great-St-Bernard, between Orsieres
and Liddes
, Valais
, Switzerland, killing 12, another 15 are injured. April 19 – A regular route bus plunged off 240-feet bridge at outskirt of Qianjiang
, Chongqing
, China, killing 27 and injuring four. 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. May 7 – A passenger bus plunged 1,000 feet below into gorge at Pampa, Pallasca, Ancash, Peru, killing 40, another 18 are injured. 22 May – 35 are killed in the Jauja bus disaster, Peru when a bus plunges off a bridge. 23 May. five School Girls die and more than forty injured when School Bus crashes and overturns in Co Meath.Republic of Ireland. 7 June – 38 people killed in the Badarmude bus explosion
, when a bus struck a land mine. June 21 – A charter bus carrying BSNL Indian state telecom employees failed to negotiate a sharp curve and plunged into a gorge at outskirt of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 18, another 20 are injured. July 9 – A bus from Srinagar
plunged into a deep river gerge off a Delhi
–Badrinath expressway, Rishikesh, Uttaranchal, India, killing 25. July 17 – A Kaishan of Chongqing
–Shenzhen
regular route bus slipped off mountain and plunged into a deep valley at outskirt of Enshi City
, Hubei
, China, killing 17, another 37 are injured. July 23 – A Lagos
–Kano
regular route bus plundged into the Gadar Tanburawa river bridge at Maiduguri
, Borno
, Nigeria, killing 56. August 24 – When a kindergarten bus crossing an intersection at a bridge, as the lights changed, when a cyclist pulled out in front and a bus ploughed onto the crowded pavement at China State Highway 318, Shenzhen
, Guangdong
, China, killing 19 and 16 injured. August 24 – A Wenling-Lichuan regular route bus crashed through the roadside barrier and slide down a 320-feet bank at Lichuan, Hubei, China, killing 14 and injuring 40. 23 September – 24 elderly people died when their bus caught fire as they flee Hurricane Rita
near Wilmer, Texas
. 15 October – A speeding bus falls into a river in Bogra District
, Bangladesh, killing 25 people. December 6 – A freight truck carrying colcium carbide, other regular route Beijing Bus vehicle suffered a brake failure rammed, and both vehicles are overturned with dropped into 60-feet ditch and caught fire at Badaling Expressway
, between Changping
–Nankou, outskirt of Beijing
, China, killing 24. 24 December – A bus plunges into the icy Yellow River
in Hanggin Banner, Inner Mongolia
, China, killing 28. December 28 – An Ahmedabad
–Mumbai
regular route bus collided with a chemical tank truck at Barach, Gujarat, India, killing 22.
Highway, Churute, Guayas
, Ecuador, in an incident caused by both buses are exceed speed, killing 14, another 30 are injured. 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 São Paulo State in Brazil, killing 33 people. January 31 – A bus carrying Cantonese tourist crush after overturned at national highway, Hurghada
, Red Sea
, Egypt, killing 14, and another 30 are injured. January 31 – Two buses collide at Qena
, Upper Egypt, killing 18, another 24 are injured. 7 February – 12 Turkish
tourists die when their bus plunges into a ravine in Rome, Italy. 17 February – One killed, 2 injured in a massive 60-cars pile-up on Autoroute 40
near Lavaltrie, Quebec
. 18 February – Cardross road accident
: 6 people are killed in an alleged hit and run
accident in Cardross
, Australia. March 10 – According to Turkish news agency Anatolia
report, A Istanbul
–Van
regular route bus careered off the road, and plunged Kelkit River
at outskirt of Tokat
, middle-eastern Turkey, killing 30. 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 April 21 – According to Bangladeshi ATN Bangla
television report, a bus carrying wedding couples and families, where plunged into Chitra River and gone down 30-feet deep river at outskirt of Narail, Bangladesh, killing 40. May 12 – According to MENA
news agency of Egypt report, a bus carrying weaving company employees has overturned and plunged into canal at between Karr al Battikh and Danietta, Nile Delta
, Egypt, killing 21, another 20 are injured. 16 May – At least 35 die when two buses collide head-on near Kumasi
, Ghana May 17 – According to Chile
an TVN
report, a regular routeb bus landed on its roof as plunged off Tinguiririca River
, Rancagua
, O'Higgins, Chile
, killing 23 and injuring 26. 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. May 31 – According to Ethiopian News Agency report, a Essie–Baherder regular route bus plunged into a 500-feet deep ravine at outskirt of Kelto, Amhara
, Ethiopia, Killing 17 and injuring 36. 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. June 2006 - Sunday News - It has happened again. Over a week ago, a speeding minibus crashed into a river in Mirerani, killing 57 people. Four days later near Arusha
, another bus accident claimed four lives. 19 July; Coach carrying school children from Walney Island, Cumbria to a theme park in Southport overturned on the M6 near to Lancaster University, no other vehicles were involved and no-one was killed but 5 people were taken to hospital, the 34 seater coach lost control and was left on its side blocking all three south-bound lanes August 18 – According to Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
report, a bus carrying Iran
ian travellers returning from Syria
has collided with a truck at outskirt of Chaldoran, West Azarbaijan, Turkey, killing 17, another injuring are 26. August 30 – According to Moroccan
news agency Maghreb Arabe Presse report, a bus carrying 50 passengers on board rolled over outskirt of Setta, Chaouia-Ouardigha
, Morocco, in an incident caused by bus driver has excessive speed, killing 17, another 26 are injured. 13 September – 30 vehicle accident on Interstate 696
in Farmington Hills, Michigan
, including a transport truck and two cars that drove off the road into the forest to the side of the freeway. The accident was caused by severe thunderstorms in the area. There were no fatalities or serious injuries, and many of the drivers involved stepped out of their cars and helped to clean up the road with the Michigan State Police
. Speed and the weather may have been a factor in the accident. (Courtesy: WDIV-TV
, http://www.clickondetroit.com) 24 September – Forty-seven people die when a bus crashes into a wall on a road in Papallacta
, Ecuador. 30 September – De la Concorde Overpass collapse
: Five are killed and six injured when a 65-feet section of a 3-lanes overpass over 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. December 22 – According to Nigerian Vanguard Online report, two passenger buses head collided at Owena, outskirt of Akure
, Ondo
, Nigeria, in an incident caused bya bus was trying go overtake a car, when it collided head on with a regular route bus coming opposite direction, killing 17. 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. A collision in the industrial town of Cuautitlan outside Mexico city saw 24 people lose their lives on 28 December when their bus collided with a 36-wagon freight train. Another 12 passengers were hurt. Police arrested the bus driver who reportedly tried to flee the scene. December 29 – According to Yunnan Television report, a bus carrying 21 passengers dash and hit three road workers and then plunged 95-yards down a cliff at outskirt of Baoshan, Yunnan, China, killing 17 and seven injured.
to Chittagong
crashes and catches fire
near Comilla
, Bangladesh, killing from 55 to 70 people. January 11 – According to IRIB television of Iran
report, a truck lost control and smashed into a regular route bus at Arak
–Malayer
expressway, outskirt of Arak, Markazi
, Iran, killing 14. 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. E1 Train Disaster
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
in 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 banboo-covered valley in Muding, Chuxiong
, Yunnan
, China, killing 14 and injuring 12. 15 March – A bus veers off the road and plunges into a reservoir in Hanzhong
, Shaanxi
, 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. 28 March – a 8,800 gallons carrying fuel truck catch fire with explode at Kagarko
, Kaduna
, Nigeria, killing at least 98, another 100 injured. 28 March. A pile-up involving around 100 vehicles kills one Woman and injutes 27 others near Newbridge Co Kildare, Irish Republic.http://rte.ie5 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. 11 April – A bus carrying students on a field trip crashes into a tractor trailer on King's Highway 410 in Brampton
, Ontario
. One dies and five are seriously injured. 14 April – A bus transporting children from İzmir
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 Juárez
, 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 crowded small sized bus overturned and burst into flame at outskirt of Garissa
, North Eastern, 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. May 7 – According to Bolivia
n police official report, a Llallagua-Sucre
Trans Bustillo bus overturned and crashed at outskirt of El Retiro, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 30. 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 State and Lara State 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 Mexican state of Puebla
. 32 bodies are recovered before the search 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 injuring 24. August 1 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
, collapses during afternoon rush hour, killing 13 and injuring 100. August 7 – According to Peru
vian America Television
report, a Nazca
–Acarí and another Civa bus service bound for Lima
are head-on collision at Panamericana Sur Highway, Acarí, Arequipa
, Peru, killing 14, another 30 are injured. 13 August – 20 passengers were killed in the bus crash
in North-South Expressway near Bukit Gantang
, Changkat Jering
, Perak
. August 20 – According Pakistani newspaper Daily Jang
report, a bus veered off a mountain road, and crashed into a Neelum Valley, Ghori
, Azad Kashimir, Pakistan, killing 25, another injuring are eight. 26 August – A truck carrying UPDF
soldiers and their family crashes and overturns near Mount Elgon
, in Eastern Uganda
, killing 72 people, including 57 soldiers, and injuring a further forty. 8 September – Over half of the 150 passengers aboard a pilgrimage bus are killed when it crashes into a gorge in Nagbavji
, India. 8 September – Two different bush crashes and fires claim a total of 48 lives in northern Nigeria
. 9 September – A tractor-trailer carrying ammonium nitrate overturn and catches fire near Monclova, Mexico. The subsequent explosions kills over thirty people and injures over 150. September 16 – According to Televisa
of Mexico report, a Puerto Vallarta
–Guadalajara
Vallarta Plus regular route bus ran off a mountain road where plunged a ravine at outskirt of Compostela, Nayarit
, Mexico, killing 17, another 13 are injured. October 7 – A bus and train collide in Granma Province
, Cuba, killing 28. October 11 – According to Rede Globo
television of Brazil report, a Chapeco
–São José do Cedro
regular route bus has collided with a truck, while trying to pass another vehicle on a curve, which happened a truck lost control and hitting several emagency and rescue workers at outskirt of Descanso
, Santa Catarina
, Brazil, killing 28 and injuring 90. November 4 – Baku–Gazakh motorway minibus crash: a minibus, carrying twenty persons, slammed into a parked truck, laden with stones; 14 died, 4 injured. November 16 – According to Lusa news agency and RTP
television report, a bus collided with a car and bus flipped over with tumbled down at outskirt of Fatima
, Ourem
, Portugal, killing 13, another 24 are injured. November 19 – According to Nigerian police official report, an Enugu-Port Harcourt regular route bus rammed into oncoming truck at Ogida, Enugu
, Nigeria, killing 21, another injuring are 10. November 24 – According to Xinhua and CCTV
of China report, a Linchuan Linda bus travelling from Shanghai plunged by landslide at outskirt of Badong
, Hubei
, China, killing 31. December 14 – According to United News of India
report, a Ludhiana–Ferozepur Satluj Express collided with a bus carrying local college students and teachers at crossing of Moga
, Punjab
of India, killing 17, another 18 are injured. December 31 – According to Egyptian Television report, a regular route bus collided with a truck and flipped into an irrigation canal at outskirt of Dayrat, Asyut
, Egypt, killing 19, another injuring are 40.
south of Orlando, Florida
. A mix of fog and thick smoke from a nearby environmental burn caused near-zero visibility and is to blame for the accident. 12 January – A basketball team van returning to Bathurst, New Brunswick
from a game in Moncton collided with a transport truck killing 7 team members and the coach's wife. January 18 – According to Bolivia
n police official report, a regular route bus ran off the road and plunged into a 600-feet deep ravine at outskirt of Manco Kapac, La Paz
, Bolivia, killing 13, another 22 are injured. 20 January – A bus carrying Hindu religious pilgrimage plunges into a gorge at Nashik, Maharashtra
, India, killing 39 people and injuring another 40. 20 January – A regular bus bound for Mon State
skids off the road and flips over at outskirt of Kyaik Hto, Myanmar
, killing at least 27, injuring another 10. January 26 – A bus carrying Jordan
ian tourist collides with a tank truck and overturns into a valley at Jerash
, Jordan, killing at least 21, injuring at least 30. January 29 – A regular route Chongqing
–Shenzhen
bus skidded off an icy road packed with snow and fell into a valley at the 98.9 kilometer point of the Guiyang
–Zhunyi expressway, on the outskirts of Zhunyi, Guizhou
, China, killing 25, another 13 are injured. January 31 – According to media and government of Zimbabwe are confirmed report, a Mhunga bus service bound for Renco
with 75 passengers on board, where left side road and crush into a tree Masvingo-Nemanwa road, Masvingo
, Zimbabwe, 14 people are killed, another 55 are injured. February 5 – A truck carrying many Hindu pilgrims hit a wall by a roadside, where lost control of the vehicle with overturned at Hathras
, Uttar Pradesh
, India, killing 12, another 20 are injured. February 12 – According to China Daily report, a Chishui-Zunyi
regular route bus veered off highway and plunged into 150-feet high cliff at outskirt of Chishui City
, Guizhou
, China, killing 21, another 14 are injured. February 17 – According to Associated Press of Pakistan
report, a Lahore
–Dera Ghazi Khan
local regular bus veer off a bend in the bridge and plunged onto another road below at outskirt of Aialkot, Punjab of Pakistan, killing 14, another 31 are injured. February 17 – According to GEO Television of Pakistan report, a Lahore-Multan
passenger bus carrying over 60 people on board has caught fire after going off a bridge at outskirt of Pattoki
, Bunjab of Pakistan, killing 40 and injuring 22. February 18 – According to a Chinese
news agency Xinhua report, a regular route bus ran into the rear of a tank truck, triggering a fire and explosion which ignited other vehicles, at the 471 kilometer point of the Beijing
–Zhuhai
expressway, on the outskirts of Chenzhou
, Hebei
, China, killing 15, another 25 are injured. February 21 – A bus travelling from Chittagong
, where hit a pole carrying power line and caught fire at Cox's Bazar
, Bangladesh, killing at least 16, another 20 are injured. February 23 – According to Saudi news angency Saudi Press Agency
report, Saudi Public Transport (SAPTCO) regular route bus overturned by faulty brakes at outskirt of Abha
, Asir, Saudi Arabia, killing at least 25, another 8 are injured. February 24 – A local bus veered off the road with plunged into a pond at outskirt of Sonapur, Assam
, India, killing at least 18, another one injured. March 1 – An overcrowded local bus with 70 passengers on board, where a bus driver tried to brake by downshifting, aftermath, a bus plunged off the highway and rolled down a fifty-foot slope, with slid about 200-yard down the highway at Cuilapa
, Guatemala, killing 53, another 17 are injured. March 5 – According to Indian police report, a truck carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and lost control of another truck while negotiating a sharp turn at Hathras
, Uttar Pradesh
, India, killing 11, another 20 are injured. March 9 – A Mar de Ajó–Buenos Aires
regular route bus disregards the National Highway Route 2's crossing signal, when a Buenos Aires
–Mar del Plata
nightly express train hit the bus at El Rapido Argentine line on the outskirts of Dolores
, state of Buenos Aires
, Argentina, killing at least 26, another 60 injured. March 12 – A series of accidents occurred, 200 vehicles crashed and went up in flames at E 11 highway of Dubai
, UAE, 7 killed and 200 injured. It is considering to be one of the worst road accidents in the country. March 14 – According to Syrian Arab News Agency
report, a Idlib
–Tartus regular route bus was crushed by overturning and hitting a house on the outskirts of Tartus, southwestern Syria
, killing 23, another 31 are injured. In an incident caused by exceeding speed. March 14 – According to Bangladeshi police and Channel 1 television report, a bus carrying a wedding couples and families collided head-on with truck before plunging into a ditch at outskirt of Goumadi, Barisal, Bangladesh, killing 12, another 11 are injured. March 15 – According to Iran
ian news agency IRNA report, a bus carrying 22 university students collided with truck, both vehicles caught fire immediately after the crash between Andimeshk
of Khuzestan and Pol-e-Dokhtar
of Lorestan, Iran, killing 22, another 7 are injured. March 16 – According to Peru
vian Panamericana Television
report, two passenger buses head-on collided and one of the vehicles drove out at Chimbote
, Ancash, Peru, killing 14, another 35 are injured. March 25 – A major motorway pileup in Austria involving at least 60 vehicles occurred near Seewalchen
causing 1 death and 30 injuries. March 25 – A regular route bus plunged off a side of highway and rolled 500-yards down a hillside at Ocotepeque
, Honduras, killing 26, another 19 are injured. March 27 – According to Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
report, a bus overturned and caught fire, when bus escaping overtake a trailer at outskirt of Kingo, Masaka
, Uganda, killing 40. March 28 – According to Xinhua of China report, a Shenzhen
–Chongqing
regular route bus smashed into a minivan overtaking and then plunged into a river at expressway, Tankou, Sangzhi, Hunan
, China, killing 13. April 3 – According to South African SAPA news agency report, a bus bound for Maputo
carrying mine workers of Mozambique
, left the road, and burst into flames with collided a tree at outskirt of Komatipoort
, Mpumalanga
, South Africa, killing 17. April 4 – According to Indian police and Zee News
television report, an overcrowded Babughat–Narayanpur
charter bus skidded off the road and plunged into a canal at Kestopur
, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
, India, killing 20, another 35 are injured. April 12 – According to Jamahiriya Arab News Agency of Libya report, a traveller bus collided with a car, and veered off the road and then plunged into river at outskirt of Mizda, Libya, killing 36, another nine are injured. April 12 – A bus carrying British tourists collided with a truck near Jipijapa killing five and injuring a further 12. April 16 – According to Indian NDTV
report, a bus carrying 60 school children from Bodeli
, has overtake a track and lost control, after plunged into Narmada River
, outskirt of Vadodara
, Gujarat, India, in an incident caused by bus driver has exceed speed, killing 47 people. April 19 – According to Bangladeshi police and Bangladesh Television
report, a Kurigram–Dhaka
bus carrying workers has overturned and plunge off Jamuna bridge at Tangail
, Bangladesh, killing 18, another 35 are injured. April 19 – A bus carrying Finnish
tourists collided with a 4X4 and overturned on highway near the coastal resort of Benalmadena killing 9 and injuring 19. April 20 – According to Indian police official report, a passenger bus skidded off a road and plunged 370-feet into a deepgorge at outskirt of Battery Cheshma, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing 13, another 28 are injured. April 23 – According to Indian police official report, an overcrowded mini-van carrying wedding couple and family collided with a truck at outskirt of , Rajasthan
, India, killing 24. May 1 – According to Hong Kong TV ATV and TVB report, a bus carrying elderly to a local religious ceremony has overturned and smashed into a barrior at Sai Kung, Hong Kong, killing 17, another injuring are 45. May 1 – According to Bolivian police official report, two minivan carrying Israeli and Japanese passengers head on collide and caught fire at outskirt of Uyuni
, Potosi
, Bolivia, killing 13. May 4 – According to Indian police official report, an overcrowded jeep carrying wedding couple and family crashed into truck at outskit of Mumbai
, India, killing 16. May 7 – According to America Television
of Peru report, a Lima
–Yauyos
regular route bus went off a mountain road, and plunged into 330-feet below of Canete River at outskirt of Yauyos
, Peru, killing 29, another injuring are 15. May 8 – Belgian footballer François Sterchele
was killed instantly when he crashed his Porsche Cayman S into a tree. May 8 – According to Kashmir
i police official report, a bus skidded off a mountain road while negotiating a sharp bend and plunged into 370-feet below the Chenab River
, outskirt of Kishtwar
, Indian-Kashmir
, killing 44. May 9 – According to Tanzanian police official report, a bus carrying Catholic Nuns and a truck collided at Morogoro
–Dodoma
road, outskirtof Dodoma, Tanzania, killing 15. May 9 – According to Tanzanian police official report, a trailer hit a local passenger bus where tried to avoid a smash up with an oncoming vehicle at outskirtof Dodoma, Tanzania, killing 12, another injuring are 29. May 17 – According to Hangzhou Television and Zhejiang Television report, an involving tractor collided by a mini bus and car, where a tractor was blocked and stopped by two vehicles, and exploded at Yongzhong, Longwan, Wenzhou
, Zhejiang
, China, killing 16, another injuring are 29. May 19 – According to portal site of Nepal news report, an overcrowded regular route –Swagadwari Dang bus skidded off the mountain road, and plunged 500-feet below into Rapti River, Bagasati, Dang, Nepal, killing 46, another injuring are 28. May 19 – According to TV Azteca
of Mexico report, an Estrella Blanca regular route bus plummeted 200-feet off a mountain highway at outskirt of Metzquitilan, Hidalgo, Mexico, killing 28, and many passengers and a driver has injured. May 21 – According to Press Trust of India
report, a Pithoragarh
–Bageshwar
regular route bus veer off a road and plunged into the ditch where 300-feet below at outskirt of Chordhuroli, Uttarakhand
, India, in an incident caused by mechanical fault, killing 21, another injuring are nine. May 23 – According to Iran
ian newspaper Etemaad
report, a bus collided with a truck at a mountain road between Hamedan and Malayer
, Hamedan, Iran, in an incident caused by truck driver has illegally overcoming and a bus driver has exceed speed, killing 24, another injuring are 11. May 27 – According to South African Broadcasting Corporation
news report, a Mvenyane–Matatiele regular route bus plunged 450 feet down an embankment in Kaka Pass, where landed upside down in river at Cedarville, Eastern Cape, South Africa, killing 28. June 1 – According to Bolivian police official report, a La Paz
–Yungas
regular route bus plunged 630-feet down a ravine at between Asonta–Chulumari, Bolivia, killing 20 and injuring 15. June 2 – A bus carrying more than 50 schoolchildren was hit by a regional express train on a level crossing in Haute-Savoie
, France. Seven children died and many others were injured. June 3 – According to Shanxi Television report, a Shuozhou transport regular route bus collided with a truck at Yuanyuan, Shuozhou
, Shanxi
, China, killing 22 and injuring two. June 3 – According to Vietnam
ese newspaper Nhan Dan
and Tuoi Tre
report, a Ho Chi Minh City
–Hanoi
regular route bus carrying 50 passengers on board head-on collided with a container on the trailer truck at outskirt of Ham Tan
, Binh Thuan, Vietnam, killing fourteen and injuring eighteen. June 9 – According to police official of India report, a passenger bus collided with a jeep at Shahuwadi Kohlapur, Maharashtra
, India, killing 17 and injuring 25. June 9 – According to Indian Embassy of Thimphu
report, a truck carrying Indian workers smashed and negotiating a narrow wet condition stretch road while returning from work site at Wangkha, Chukha
, Bhutan, killing 12. June 15 – According to United News of India
report, a Bachri–Rampur
Himachal Pradesh Road Transport bus plunged into a 500-feet deep gorge at Kalchi More, Rampur, Himachal Pradesh
, India, killing 16 and injuring six. June 16 – According to Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation news report, a NPS bus crashed and lost control by a front tire has bursting at Great East Road, Nyalugwe, Nyimba, Zambia, killing 28 and injuring 52. June 21 – According to Indian police official report, a Rampur-Basheri Himachal Road Transport bus plunged into george, when crowded road in a narrow curve with drivers error at outskirt of Rampur, Himachal Pradesh
, India, killing 16. June 23 – According to NTV Turkey
report, a freight train rammed into minibus, which passing level crossing despite warn up at outskirt of Nurdagi
, Gaziantep
, Turkey, killing eleven bus passengers. June 25 – According to Nigerian Television Authority
news report, a multipile motors, including Petyex Transport bus, fuel tanker and six vehicles crashed at Ita bridge, Ikot, Akwa Ibom
, Nigeria, killing 25. June 28 – According to Times of India report, a Sakhnikhet–Kotdwar regular route bus plunged into a gorge at outskirt of Bedgaon, Nainital, India, killing thirteen and injuring nine. June 29 – According to Televisa
of Mexico report, a truck slammed into two Omnibus de la Laguna passenger buses stopped for repair and mechanical failure at 126 kilometers point from US and Mexican border of Pan American Highway, Ojo Laguna, Chihuahua, Mexico, killing seventeen and injuring fifteen. July 1 – According to Reuters, AP, AFP, IRNA news, a bus overturned on a highway at between Teheran–Qom
, Ray Country, Iran, killing 25 and seriously injured 16. July 3 – According to Doordarshan
television of India report, a Haldwani-Kashipur regular route bus carrying 48 passengers rammed into a tree, when a front tyre of a vehicle burst at Gadappu, Nainital, India, killing nineteen and injuring 29. July 4 – According to Interior Minister and civil protection agency of El Salvador report, a bus carrying a local evangelical church members hit by heavy massivie rain with flood, where plunged into Acelhuate River, San Marcos
, San Salvador
, El Salvador, killing 31. July 5 – According to News Agency of Nigeria report, a bus carrying conveying pupils head on collided with another vehicle at between Benin City
–Asaba
expressway, Nigeria, killing eighteen, including twelve children. July 7 – According to Bangla Vision television teport, a Chittagong-Dhaka
regular route bus lost control and crashed into another bus in the opposite direction, where plunged into a 200 feet (61 m) road side ditch at outskirt of Comilla
, near Chittagong
, Bangladesh, killing twenty and injuring forty. July 8 – According to Bolivision
report, a truck loaded with sixty passengers and many goods plunged 650 feet down a cliff at outskirt of Potosi
, Bolivia, killing 47 and injuring ten. July 9 – According to Indian police official report, an overcrowded –Ranchi
regular route bus collided with a truck and plunged into the Chutupala Valley, Netarhat
, Jharkhand
, India, killing twenty and injuring thirty. July 11 – According to SBT television of Brazil report, a Porto Velho
–Roraima
of Brazilia regular route bus carrying 36 passengers head-on collide with trailer truck with gasoline, both vehicles caught fire at BR-364 expressway, Ouro Preto do Oeste
, Rondônia
, Brazil, killing 22 people. July 12 – According to Peruvian police official report, a Lima
–Tarapoto
Civa transport bus skidded off the highway, after theb driver swerved to avoid hitting on-coming trailer truck at outskirt of Vichaycocha, Huaral
, Peru, killing 14 and injuring 10. July 18 – According to nepalnews of portal site report, a bus carrying fifty passengers veered off a mountain with plunged into Trishuli River, Narayangadh-Mugling expressway, Chandi Bhanjyang, Chitwan, Nepal, killing sixteen and injuring twenty-nine. July 20 – According to Indian NDTV report, a truck collided head on with a private mini bus at Etah-Kasganj Expressway, outskirt of Etah
, Uttar Pradesh
, India, at least sixteen dead. July 21 – According to Peruvian TV Peru report, a Soyuz Transport bus carrying Hermanos Flores Group head collided with a Huaral
–Lima
regular route bus at Pasamayo, Huaral, Peru, Soyuz bus crossed into a lane of oncoming traffic in an attempt to pass another vehicle, at least 25 dead and injuring sixty. July 22 – According to Colombian RCN television report, a Puerto Asis
–Pasto
regular route bus cassying fifty passengers plunged into a 1600 feet (487.7 m) ravine at outskirt of Mocoa
, Putamayo, Colombia, at least twenty-three dead and injuring twenty-one. July 23 – According to Indian Khaleej Times report, a Jammu-Srinagar regular route bus crushed by lost control at Banihal Pass, Sher-Bibi, Jammu and Kashimir, India, killing seventeen and injuring thirty-five. July 29 – According to Philippine National Police
official and an ABS-CBN television report, a packed commuter bus strayed into an oncoming lane, and crashed head-on collide with another bus at Pamplona
, Camarines Sur
, Philippines, at least eleven dead and injuring twenty-nine. July 31 – According to Indian Police Service
and Times of India report, a bus carrying Nepalease pilgrims plunged into Alkananda River with killing at least thirty-six and injuring eleven at Panauti, Kaverepalanchowk, Uttarakhanda, India. August 2 – According to Indian Police Service
and NDTV report, an overloaded truck with 125 farm laborers plunged into a small river and killing at least sixty at Khagaria, Bihar
, India. August 3 – At least nineteen people killed and injuring many passengers, a bus and a truck collision, and bus driver swerved to the left, when the driver dosed off behind the wheel at Sirjan-Bandar Abbas
road, outskirt of Sirjan
, Kerman Province, Iran. August 8 – Sherman, Texas
- according to Sherman Police Department official report, an illegally operated charter bus carrying fifty-five people of Vietnamese-American Catholic, Marian Pays group skidded off at Dallas-Oklahoma Highway 75, at least seventeen passenger died and injuring more than forty. Sherman, Texas bus accident
. August 15 – At least fifteen children died, a bus with forty people, including thirty-two children of Baami School has lost control and plunged into Phalguni River in Ulaibitta village, Mangalore
, Karnataka
, India. August 15 – At least twenty-nine died, two passenger buses, mostly Italian and Dominica
n and collied with two pickup trucka at La Romana, La Altagracia
, Dominican Republic. August 16 – At least fifteen died and injuring twenty, a bus plunged off mountain road into 260-meter deep ravine at Mianchi Country, Henan Province, China. August 18 – At least fifty died, a bus tried to cross a bridge, and swollen and plunged Glace River by Tropical Storm Fay
at outskirt of Beaumont
, Grand'Ase, Haiti. September 7 – A bus carrying mostly elderly Slovak
tourists crashed into a highway flyover pillar on a section of Zagreb
–Split
motorway near Zir, Croatia, killing 14 people and injuring 30 others in the worst highway accident in Croatia since independence. September 13 – A Bazhong
–Ningbo
bus plunged into a 100-meter deep valley at Nanjiang, Sichuan
, China, at least fifty-one killed. September 15 – A tourist bus crashed into a truck on the west coast of Egypt
's Sinai peninsula
outside the resort of Ras Sadr, killing 14 people (7 foreign tourists from Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine and 5 Egyptians) and injuring 37 others. September 21 – A bus crashed with a truck
coming from the opposite direction on Sunday morning at around 4 a.m. in Vietnam's central Nghe An province, killing 16 people on the bus and leaving 13 injured, according to the local traffic safety bureau. October 3 – A fiery collision between an 18-wheeler tractor
–trailer
, driven by Andrew David Carter, 31, and a state van
, killed 6 applicants for prison jobs and their driver, 36-year-old correctional officer Rodney Kelley, about 20 miles southeast of Montgomery, Alabama
rural highway of U.S. 82 (U.S. Route 82
). Department of Corrections staff transported them from a state prison near Union Springs
to another DOC prison. The 6 applicants were identified as Julius Bouier, 26; Lionel Moore, 18; John Foye Jr., 20; Brandon Anglin, 23; Henry Simmons Sr., 45; and Derrick Ivey, 22. October 5 – A Greyhound
chartered bus, with 46 people, traveling from Sacramento, California
to Colusa Casino Resort, veered across Lone Star Road, Colusa County, and cartwheeled down an embankment southeast of Williams, California
, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring at least 38. October 10 – A Thai
tour
bus with Kaset Techno Khon Kaen
University
students on a field trip overturned coming down a steep hill in Nadi
district, Prachinburi
, at 0330 local time (2030 GMT), 135 km (83.9 mi) north-east of Bangkok
, killing 22 people (the driver, 18 male and 3 female students), and seriously injuring 50 others, according to Majors Suchart Yaemsak and General Sanchai Chaiamporn. October 20 – An entire family of 6 were killed as they car was shunted under another stopped car by a lorry on a motorway in Cheshire
. David Statham, 38, his wife Michelle, 33, and their four children Reece, 13, Jay, 9, Mason, 20 months, and Ellouise, 10 weeks, died. A 46-year-old Portuguese lorry driver was later convicted of causing their deaths by careless driving and jailed for three years. October 27 – 9 people died and 18 others were injured, when a passenger jeepney
with 21 people on board fell into a 300-meter ravine
in Dapdap West Tagaytay City
, Philippines on their way to Tanauan, Batangas to bury a dead relative's remains. November 1 – 7 people were killed and more than 30 passengers injured, in a head-on collision between an overtaking packed passenger Fermina Express bus and a Toyota Revo
utility vehicle along the North Luzon Expressway
, near Sta. Ines, Mabalacat, Pampanga
. Some of the fatalities' bodies were dismembered in the gruesome tragedy. November 15 - 99 people killed and 46 wounded when a bus collided head-on with a truck in Boromo. The bus caught fire and most victims were burned alive. Miracolously, the bus driver got off unhurt. December 16–25 killed and 30 injured after a bus crashes
off the road and rolls down a ravine between Ovda and Eilat in Israel
.
) caused 71 people in 35 cars and 5 tractor trailers to crash in Myersville, Maryland
.
January 15 - Fifteen footballers killed when bus collided with a vehicle transporting cattle near Jos
, Nigeria.
May 28 - Sixteen people died and four were injured when a tourist bus crashed into a crowd
in eastern Bulgaria.
July 26 - Eight were killed, including the driver, and three were injured when a driver travels the wrong way for 1.7 miles on the Taconic State Parkway
in New York State before crashing head-on into a sport utility vehicle at about 1:30 p.m. The driver, identified as Diane Schuler
, was later found to be impaired by alcohol and marijuana. Four of her five passengers, all children, were killed as well as all three men in the oncoming vehicle. Two occupants of another car suffered minor injuries. (See 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash
.)
July 31 - Two Markham
residents, David Young, 63, and Riley Jay, 12, were killed after Young died of an unknown medical condition while driving and collided with a tree near Alexandria, Ontario. Two others, an unidentified woman and young girl, were injured, although not critically.
July 31 – At least 17 people died after a bus crash in Quiquijana District
in Peru. The bus was from Arequipa
and the destination was Cusco
.
August 10 - Two trucks loaded with passengers collided in Ciego de Avila
, Cuba, killing 14 people and injuring about 30 others.
August 13 - A heavy dump truck collides head-on with a crowded passenger bus outside of Panama City
, killing at least 22 people and injuring several others in one of Panama's worst-ever traffic accidents.
August 14 - 2009 Romanian bus-train collision
occurred at 14:10 local time (UTC+3) when at least 13 people died after a bus-train collision in Scânteia
, Iaşi County
, Romania
on County Road 248C. It was the worst accident in Romania in fifteen years.
October 18 - Quezon province double-accident - A 4-wheeler truck bumps right side signage. An hour later, a bus carried 40 students, 7 teachers and 1 parent bumped on the left side tree, a bus from Blessed Hope Christian Academy in Marikina City
going to Legazpi City
- 1 killed (soldier), 3 injured (2 teachers and 1 student)
December 6 - At least 20 people killed and some 45 injured in Bangladesh
after two buses were involved in a head-on collision.
December 17 - 17 people were killed when a touring coach veered off a mountain road.
December 22 - December 2009 Interstate 10 pileup
- Three people were killed and 14 more were injured after a sudden dust storm reduced visibility to near-zero along a portion of Interstate 10
. Twenty-two vehicles were involved in the pileup, one of which, a tank truck, exploded and set seven other vehicles on fire.
December 26 - 10 passengers were killed when a Sani Express double-decker express bus crashed into the divider along the North-South Expressway near Ipoh
, Malaysia at 1am. The driver of the bus has admitted to falling asleep at the wheel.
Death Toll
Death Toll is a 2008 action film starring DMX, Lou Diamond Phillips, Leila Arcieri and Keshia Knight Pulliam, written and produced by Daniel Garcia of the rap group Kane & Abel and directed by Phenomenon...
, occurred in unusual circumstances, or hold some other historical significance. For crashes in which famous people died, please refer to List of people who died in road accidents. The prevalence of bus accidents in this list is a function of severity rather than of frequency.
2000
March 6 – A ZhobZhob
-Roads:Zhob is 333 kilometers from Quetta, 225 kilometers from Dera Ismail Khan. However, the road linking with Dera Ismail Khan is for most part fair nowadays track passing through water streams and almost complete road is metalloid....
–Shahdadpur
Shahdadpur
Shahdadpur is a city in Sindh, a province of Pakistan. It is located at 27°51'N and 67°64'E. The historical city of al-Mansura is situated about 19 km south-east of Shahdadpur. The shrines of Sohni and Mehinwal, from the Sohni Mahiwal story, are located in and near to the city, the shrine of Sohni...
regular route bus collides with a truck carrying local wedding couples and families plunges at Saifullah Shaikh canal, Balochistan
Balochistan (Pakistan)
Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...
, Pakistan, killing 50, another 25 are injured. 29 March – 74 people die in a collision between two buses in Kerichko, Kenya. 13 May - A bus carrying Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
pilgrims plunges 60 feet below into the Buna River at Buna
Buna village
Buna village is a small village at the confluence of the Buna river and Neretva river some 10 km downstream the Neretva and south of Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
, Neretva
Neretva
Neretva is the largest river of the eastern part of the Adriatic basin. It has been harnessed and controlled to a large extent by four HE power-plants with large dams and their storage lakes, but it is still recognized for its natural beauty, diversity of its landscape and visual...
, Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
killing 43, another 12 are injured. 18 June – Lax security regulation enforcement causes the overpasses of Autoroute 15
Quebec Autoroute 15
Autoroute 15 is a highway in western Quebec, Canada...
to collapse over Boulevard du Souvenir, in Laval, Quebec
Laval, Quebec
Laval is a Canadian city and a region in southwestern Quebec. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest municipality in the province of Quebec, and the 14th largest city in Canada with a population of 368,709 in 2006...
, during renovation, killing one and injuring two. July 6 – A bus carrying workers to Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
collided with a truck carrying pigs at the outskirt of Soria
Soria
Soria is a city in north-central Spain, the capital of the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile and León. , the municipality has a population of c. 39,500 inhabitants, nearly 40% of the population of the province...
, Spain, killing 27, another 23 are injured. 7 July – A bus plunges into a river in Liuzhou
Liuzhou
-History:thumb|Liuchow in 1945.Liuzhou has a history of more than 2,100 years. The city was founded in 111 B.C. when it was known as Tanzhong....
, Guangxi
Guangxi
Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...
province killing all 78 aboard. July 11 – A bus carrying 39 passengers on board, plunged into a deep ravine at Sarangan, Merapi Ketep, Indonesia, killing 10, another 13 are injured in an incident caused by brake failure. 28 August – Abuja bus crash riots
Abuja bus crash riots
The Abuja bus crash riots were an outbreak of violent riots following a massive multi-bus pile up at Abuja central bus station in Nigeria.-The bus station disaster:...
, Abuja
Abuja
Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria. It is located in the centre of Nigeria, within the Federal Capital Territory . Abuja is a planned city, and was built mainly in the 1980s. It officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991, replacing Lagos...
, Nigeria, Seventy people are killed in a bus pile up in Abuja. The next day, related protest riots kill four more people. September 10 – A Shiliguri–Darjeeling regular route bus carrying 50 passengers on board and some passengers, has vehicle on roof plunged Tista River, when driver approaching a bridge, lost control before exceed speed at Sivok, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, killing 20, and many passengers injured. 12 October – Owerri bus crash, Nigeria, Fifty people die when a bus collides with fuel tanker
Tank truck
A tank truck or road tanker is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars which are also designed to carry liquefied loads...
, which explodes. October 22 – Two regular route buses collided on a bridge at outskirt of Jhang
Jhang
- Demographics :According to 1981 census of Pakistan population of Jhang was 1,970,944 with the 434,495 housing units in Jhang. In 1998 census, population of Jhang was 2,834,545, whose annually growth rate was 2.16%. Male population was 1,474,099 and female population was 1,360,446...
, Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
of Pakistan, killing 40, another 75 are injured. 6 November – Lagos tanker disaster, Lagos
Lagos
Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
, Nigeria, Between 100 and 200 people are killed when a petrol tanker
Tank truck
A tank truck or road tanker is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars which are also designed to carry liquefied loads...
loses control, slams into a traffic jam and explodes. November 7 – A Nairobi
Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...
–Mombasa
Mombasa
Mombasa is the second-largest city in Kenya. Lying next to the Indian Ocean, it has a major port and an international airport. The city also serves as the centre of the coastal tourism industry....
regular route bus with 80 passengers on board, plunged a bridge at outskirt of Meru
Meru, Kenya
-Transport:The City of Meru is linked to Nairobi by a paved road, whether from the south around the east side of Mount Kenya, via Embu, or from the northwest around the west and north side of Mount Kenya, via Nanyuki and Timau....
, Eastern Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, in an incident caused by excess speeds, killing 45. 24 November – Benin City bus crash, Nigeria, Sixty people die when bus falls into a ravine. November 27 – A Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province , a former capital of the Kingdom of Lanna and was the tributary Kingdom of Chiang Mai from 1774 until 1939. It is...
–Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
regular route bus crashes and drops off a bridge, plunging into a canal at Mae Prik, Lampang
Lampang
Lampang, also called Nakhon Lampang to differentiate from Lampang Province, is the third largest town in northern Thailand and capital of Lampang Province and the Lampang district. Traditional names for Lampang include Wiang Lakon and Khelang Nakhon. The city is still growing rapidly as trading...
, Thailand, killing 20, another 16 are injured. 24 December – A bus traveling from Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
to Butterworth
Butterworth, South Africa
Butterworth is a settlement in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. Butterworth has a population of 287,780 and is situated 111 km north of East London on the N2 national highway in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa...
plunges off a mountain road in South Africa, leaving 20 passengers dead and 55 injured. 24 December – A Cotobato-Davao
Davao
Davao refers to several closely related places in Mindanao in the Philippines. The term is used most often to refer to the city.*Davao Region, an administrative region*Davao del Norte province*Davao del Sur province*Davao Oriental province...
regular route bus carrying Christmas travelers plunges 60 feet down into a ravine at outskirts of Bansalan, Mindanao
Mindanao
Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also the name of one of the three island groups in the country, which consists of the island of Mindanao and smaller surrounding islands. The other two are Luzon and the Visayas. The island of Mindanao is called The...
, Philippines, killing 30, 12 more are injured.
2001
28 February – Selby rail crashSelby rail crash
The Great Heck rail crash, widely known as the Selby rail crash, was a high-speed train accident that occurred at Great Heck near Selby, North Yorkshire, England on the morning of 28 February 2001...
: A car falls off a M62 motorway
M62 motorway
The M62 motorway is a west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting the cities of Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds. The road also forms part of the unsigned Euroroutes E20 and E22...
bridge on railroad tracks, causing the derailment of a passenger train and its subsequent collision with a freight train near Selby
Selby
Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Situated south of the city of York, along the course of the River Ouse, Selby is the largest and, with a population of 13,012, most populous settlement of the wider Selby local government district.Historically a part of the West Riding...
, England. 10 are killed and 82 injured. March 1 – A bus skidded off a road and plunged into Ravi River
Ravi River
The Ravi is a trans-boundary river flowing through Northwestern India and eastern Pakistan. It is one of the six rivers of the Indus System in Punjab region ....
, outskirt of Chamba, Himachal Pradesh
Chamba, Himachal Pradesh
Chamba is an ancient town in the Chamba district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, in northern India. According to the 2001 Indian census, Chamba has a population of 20,312 people...
, India, at least forty dead. March 4 – 70+ killed in the Hintze Ribeiro disaster
Hintze Ribeiro disaster
On the night of March 4, 2001, the Hintze Ribeiro disaster occurred when the Hintze Ribeiro Bridge, made of steel and concrete, collapsed in Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal, killing 59 people, including those in a bus and three cars that were attempting to get to the other side of the...
when a bridge collapsed as a bus was crossing the Douro
Douro
The Douro or Duero is one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, flowing from its source near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province across northern-central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Porto...
in Portugal. March 6 – A local bus rammed into a tree on a sharp bend on a road as a result of lost control in Amphoe Mueang Phetchabun
Amphoe Mueang Phetchabun
Mueang Phetchabun is the capital district of Phetchabun Province, northern Thailand.-History:Mueang Phetchabun was an ancient frontier city, established in Sukhothai era. Prince Damrong Rajanubhab found the old forts on the both banks of the Pa Sak River, same landscaping as Mueang Phitsanulok...
, Phetchabun
Phetchabun
Phetchabun is a town in Thailand, capital of the Phetchabun Province. It covers the tambon Nai Mueang of the Phetchabun district, along the Pa Sak River...
, Thailand, killing 16, injuring another 20. March 24 – 14 are killed and over 20 injured when a bus swerves off the road into a ravine in Santa Comba Dão
Santa Comba Dão
Santa Comba Dão is a city and a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 112.0 km² and a total municipal population of 12,393 inhabitants...
. April 8 – A minibus hit a bull, before colliding with another bus at Songea Rual, Ruvuma, Tanzania, in an incident caused by excessive speed, killing 21. 26 June – A bus swerves and hits a ditch 80 miles southwest of Port-Au-Prince
Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
, Haiti, killing 41 people. 10 August – An overcrowded bus falls into a river in Xinjiang
Xinjiang
Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2...
, China, while traveling from Urumqi
Ürümqi
Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....
to Xinhe County, killing 34 people. August 15 – A minibus severed off the road and plunged into the Mwania River, outskirt of Machakos
Machakos
Machakos is a town in Kenya, 64 kilometres southeast of Nairobi. It is the capital of the Machakos District in Eastern Province of Kenya. Machakos Town is a major rural centre, and also a satellite town due to its proximity to Nairobi. Its population is rapidly growing and is 192,117...
, Eastern Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
, killing 23, another 10 are injured. 17 August – A bus and a truck collide on a road between Kerman
Kerman
- Geological characteristics :For the Iranian paleontologists, Kerman has always been considered a fossil paradise. Finding new dinosaur footprints in 2005 has now revealed new hopes for paleontologists to better understand the history of this area.- Economy :...
and Sirjan
Sirjan
Sirjan is a city in and the capital of Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 167,014, in 40,605 families....
in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, killing 30 people. August 26 – A Lagos
Lagos
Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
–Kano
Kano
Kano is a city in Nigeria and the capital of Kano State in Northern Nigeria. Its metropolitan population is the second largest in Nigeria after Lagos. The Kano Urban area covers 137 sq.km and comprises six Local Government Area - Kano Municipal, Fagge, Dala, Gwale, Tarauni and Nassarawa - with a...
regular route bus, carrying 72 passengers, veers into a Dakatsalle bridge, Kura
Kura, Nigeria
Kura is a Local Government Area in Kano State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kura on the A2 highway.It has an area of 206 km² and a population of 144,601 at the 2006 census.The postal code of the area is 711....
, Kaduna
Kaduna
Kaduna is the state capital of Kaduna State in north-central Nigeria. The city, located on the Kaduna River, is a trade center and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction. The population of Kaduna is at 760,084 as of the 2006 Nigerian census...
, Nigeria, killing 49, another 23 are injured. 24 October – 11 people die in the Gotthard Road Tunnel
Gotthard Road Tunnel
The St. Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland runs from Göschenen in the Canton of Uri at its northern portal, to Airolo in Ticino to the south, and is just under in length below the St. Gotthard Pass...
after two lorries collide, resulting in a fire. November 3 – A passenger bus plunged into george, when a bus driver failed to make a sharp turn on a hill at Saderkote, Jammu and Kashimir, India, killing twenty and injuring thirty-three. 14 November – A bus flips over on a road near Huelva
Huelva
Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. It is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto rivers. According to the 2010 census, the city has a population of 149,410 inhabitants. The...
, Spain, killing 19 people. 14 December – 52 pilgrims killed in Aqaba bus crash in Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
. December 28 – Two crowded buses collide, one bus falls into a road side ditch at outskirt of Bogra
Bogra
Bogra is a town, and one of the oldest towns in northern Bangladesh. It is a centre of commerce and trade within the Bogra District and located under the Rajshahi Division. Bogra is sometimes described as the nerve centre of Northern Bangladesh. Amongst many notable activities, it has been hosting...
, Rajshahi
Rajshahi
The city of Rajshahi is the divisional headquarters of Rajshahi division as well as the administrative district that bears its name and is one of the six metropolitan cities of Bangladesh. Often referred to as Silk City and Education City, Rajshahi is located in the north-west of the country and...
, Bangladesh, killing 35.
2002
January 7 – A Manikganj–DhakaDhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
regular route bus driver lost control while trying to cross a bridge at an excessive speed and plunged over 35 feet into the river at Aminbazar, Savar
Sävar
Sävar is a locality situated in Umeå Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden with 2,672 inhabitants in 2005.It is located by E4 about 15 km north of Umeå, Sweden. Sävar is mostly known for being the last battlefield of the Finnish War....
, Bangladesh, killing 30, many more passengers were injured. February 17 – Two buses collided, both carrying travelers by Lunar New Year holiday, where a bus crashed at Hechuan
Hechuan
Hechuan is a district in the northern part of Chongqing, China, located at the meeting point of the Jialing, Fu and Qu rivers, with a history of 1500 years...
, Henan
Henan
Henan , is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "豫" , named after Yuzhou , a Han Dynasty state that included parts of Henan...
, China, killing 25, injuring another 12. March 13 – An Ayacucho
Ayacucho
Ayacucho is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.Ayacucho is famous for its 33 churches, which represent one for each year of Jesus's life. Ayacucho has large religious celebrations, especially during the Holy Week of Easter...
–Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
regular route bus burst into flames, before skidding out of control and hitting a gasoline station at Chincha Alta
Chincha Alta
Chincha Alta is a Peruvian city located in the Ica Region. It is the capital of Chincha Province.-Location:The City of Chincha Alta is located 200 kilometers south of Lima, in the Chincha Province of the Ica Region of Peru...
, Ica
Ica Region
Ica is a region in Peru. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Lima Region on the north; the Huancavelica and Ayacucho regions on the east; and the Arequipa Region on the south. Its capital is the city of Ica.- Geography :...
, Peru, killing 35. 19 April - A bus carrying construction workers plunges off a mountain road near Salalah
Salalah
Salalah , is the capital and seat of the governor or Wali of the southern Omani province of Dhofar. The population of Salalah was 197,169 in 2009....
, Oman killing 46 in country's worst ever road accident. 23 April – A steamroller
Steamroller
A steamroller is a form of road roller – a type of heavy construction machinery used for levelling surfaces, such as roads or airfields – that is powered by a steam engine...
falls off a truck and crushes a bus 70 miles north of Ufa, Russia, killing 14 people. 26 May – 14 die in the I-40 bridge disaster on Interstate 40
Interstate 40
Interstate 40 is the third-longest major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90 and I-80. Its western end is at Interstate 15 in Barstow, California; its eastern end is at a concurrency of U.S. Route 117 and North Carolina Highway 132 in Wilmington, North Carolina...
, near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma
Webbers Falls, Oklahoma
Webbers Falls is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 726 at the 2000 census. The name comes from a 7 foot falls in the Arkansas River, itself named in honor of Walter Webber, a Cherokee leader who lived there in the early 19th Century.-The I-40 Bridge Disaster:The...
when a barge collided with a bridge support, causing a 580-foot section of the bridge to plunge into the Arkansas River
Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas...
. May 27 – A Ghatakpukur-Kolkatta route bus carrying office workers veers off and falls into a pond at Chowbagha, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, killing 46, in an incident involving excessive speed and a burst tire. June 2 – A bus carrying pilgrims bound for Multan
Multan
Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...
, falls off a bridge in Jhelum, Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
of Pakistan, in an incident caused by the driver losing control of the vehicle, killing 40, another 10 injured. 15 June – A truck and a bus collide on a highway in North Chungchong, South Korea, killing 15 and seriously injuring another 20 people. July 2 – A Damri public bus carrying children and parents from Jenbar plunged into a 24 feet (7.3 m) ravine at Arjasa, East Java
East Java
East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and islands to its east and to its north East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and...
, Indonesia, killing 26, another 44 are injured. July 7 – A bus carrying Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
tourists slides off the road and overturns in Balatonszentgyorgy
Balatonszentgyörgy
Balatonszentgyörgy is a village in Somogy county, Hungary. It is near tio the village of Balatonberény. The village is next to Lake Balaton.-Overview:...
, Somogy, Hungary, in an incident caused by excessive speed, killing 19, another 31 are injured. 19 July – Over 70 die when a bus is hit by a runaway fuel tanker at Rutoto in Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
. August 7 – A Guerrero
Guerrero
Guerrero officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo....
–Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
regular route bus slammed into a concrete wall at Zinapecuaro, Michoacán
Michoacán
Michoacán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia...
, Mexico, in an incident caused by a 26-years old bus driver involving excessive speed, killing 33, another 10 are injured. August 9 – An Urumqi
Ürümqi
Ürümqi , formerly Tihwa , is the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country....
–Kashgar
Kashgar
Kashgar or Kashi is an oasis city with approximately 350,000 residents in the western part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Kashgar is the administrative centre of Kashgar Prefecture which has an area of 162,000 km² and a population of approximately...
regular route bus plunged off a bridge at the outskirts of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur, China, killing 34. August 18 – A bus falls into a ravine and overturns near Yantikovo, Chuvashia, Russia, killing 21 and injuring 37. August 18 – A bus carrying people returning from an annual religious festival at Nevsehir
Nevsehir
Nevşehir, formerly Muşkara, , is a city and the capital district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. According to the 2010 census, population of the district is 117,890 of which 85,634 631 live in the city of Nevşehir...
, skidded off the road and overturned after brake failure at the outskirts of Tarsus
Tarsus (city)
Tarsus is a historic city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 2.75 million...
, Mersin
Mersin
-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...
, Turkey, in an incident caused by excessive speed, killing 29, another 30 are injured. September 2 – A bus plummets 520 feet down a ravine at the outskirts of Coroico
Coroico
Coroico is a town in Nor Yungas Province, in the La Paz Department of western Bolivia.-History:Coroico Viejo was founded above the Kori Huayco River...
, Nor Yungas, Bolivia, killing 29, another 25 are injured. September 7 – A bus attempted to pass a car and crashed into a truck at the outskirts of Mbozi
Mbozi
Mbozi is one of the 8 districts of the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North by the Chunya District, to the East by the Mbeya Urban and Ileje Districts, to the South by Zambia and to the West by the Rukwa Region....
, Mbeya
Mbeya
Mbeya is a city located in southwest Tanzania, Africa. Mbeya's urban population was 280,000 in 2005. Mbeya is the capital of the surrounding rural Mbeya region ....
, Tanzania, killing 27, another 43 are injured. September 12 – A van carrying migrant workers from Central America plunges off a bridge into a river in the State of Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
, killing 14 workers in the state's worst ever road accident. October – 10 die in an accident on Interstate 43
Interstate 43
Interstate 43 is a intrastate Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Wisconsin, connecting Interstate 39 and Interstate 90 in Beloit with Milwaukee and U.S. Route 41 and U.S. Route 141 in Green Bay. I-43 is the 5th longest intrastate Interstate Highway of the Interstate...
in the state of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
; the accident is considered the worst in state history. 16 November – A bus crash in Cuesta del Totoral in Northern Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
kills over fifty people. November 24 – A regular route bus smashed through an iron railing and plunged 42 feet down into the ravine at the outskirts of Tagkawayan, Quezon
Quezon
-History:Originally, what now forms Quezon was divided among the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Nueva Ecija. The area was first explored by Juan de Salcedo in 1571-1572, during his expedition from Laguna to Camarines provinces....
, Philippines, killing 33, in an incident caused by mechanical failure.
2003
24 January – A bus crashes into several buildings before bursting into flames, killing 14 in SlawiSlawi
Slawi is the capital city of the Tegal Regency of the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Slawi is known for the production of a particularly fragrant black tea and the tea drinking culture known as Moci.-Geography:...
, Indonesia. January 26 – A regular route bus veers into oncoming traffic and crashes into another regular route bus. Many vehicles piled up, including Kami Express and Felicite Express Voyages, occurring in Edéa
Edéa
Edéa is a city located in the Littoral Province, Cameroon by the Sanaga River and near the railroad line Douala-Yaoundé. It has a population of 122,300 . There are bauxite facilities, aluminium processing facility, steel processing facility, timber facilities, paper facilities and some water...
, Littoral Province, Cameroon, killing 70 people, and injuring 15. January 28 – A tourist bus crashes head-on into a truck carrying paint in Narayan Chand, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, killing at least 40, another 15 are injured. March 9 – A charter bus near a Czech
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
ski tourist destination, collides with a truck in between České Budějovice
Ceské Budejovice
České Budějovice is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice and of the University of South Bohemia and the Academy of Sciences...
and Dolni Dvorisite, Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
, Czech Republic, killing 19, another 30 are injured. March 9 – A regular route bus carrying Chinese citizens crashed and caught fire at the outskirts of Jeti Ojuz, Kyzyl Suu, Kyrgyzstan, killing 19. March 12 – A local passenger bus collided with a truck carrying cement at the outskirts of Podor
Podor
Podor is the northernmost town in Senegal, Africa, lying on Morfil Island between the Sénégal River and Doué River. It is home to a ruined French fort, built in 1854 as a centre for gold trading, and is the birthplace of fashion designer Oumou Sy, and musicians Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck....
, Saint-Louis Region
Saint-Louis Region
The Saint-Louis Region of Senegal is on the border with Mauritania. Its capital is Saint-Louis.Famous for its cast iron bridge, built by French colonialists in the 19th century, it is close to the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, home to thousands of birds, some indigenous to the...
, Senegal, killing 22. 13 April – 21 students killed in a collision between their bus and a truck in Tembi
Vale of Tempe
The Vale of Tempe is a gorge in northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus to the north and Ossa to the south. The valley is 10 kilometers long and as narrow as 25 meters in places, with cliffs nearly 500 meters high, and through it flows the Pineios River on its way to the Aegean Sea...
, near Larissa
Larissa
Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...
, Greece. April 16 – A truck and a bus collide on a main highway in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
killing 30 and injuring 71. 1 May – 80 people drown in the Bethlehem bus crash
Bethlehem bus crash
The Bethlehem bus crash was one of the worst vehicle accidents of all time, when a coach drove into a reservoir near the town of Bethlehem, South Africa, killing 80 passengers on 1 May 2003.- Overview :...
, when the driver drove off a dam and into a reservoir. May 9 – 24 are killed, nearly as many are 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
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
, France killing 28 and injuring 46 passengers. 4 June – 30 people die in the Kasganj bus disaster
Kasganj bus disaster
The Kasganj level crossing disaster was the crash of a passenger bus with an express train near the town of Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh, India on 4 June 2002.- Overview :...
, when a bus attempted to cross a closed level crossing in India and was sliced in half by a train. 4 June – 10 people are burnt to death, 19 sustained serious injuries and about 20 cars totally destroyed when a fuel tanker jackknifes, swerves into vehicles at traffic lights in rush hour and blasts into a huge fireball in downtown Amman, Jordan. 10 July – 21 killed in a Tuen Mun Road
Tuen Mun Road
Tuen Mun Road is a major expressway in Hong Kong which connects Tuen Mun in the New Territories with Tsuen Wan. It is part of Hong Kong's Route 9, which circumnavigates the New Territories...
bus accident, Hong Kong, when a bus plunged off a motorway viaduct
Viaduct
A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. The term viaduct is derived from the Latin via for road and ducere to lead something. However, the Ancient Romans did not use that term per se; it is a modern derivation from an analogy with aqueduct. Like the Roman aqueducts, many early...
after being hit by lorry
Lorry
-Transport:* Lorry or truck, a large motor vehicle* Lorry, or a Mine car in USA: an open gondola with a tipping trough* Lorry , a horse-drawn low-loading trolley-In fiction:...
. Worst road accident in the history of the territory. 11 June – Five people are killed when a lorry (truck) carrying armored vehicles jackknifes, sending the trailer through the guardrail and into oncoming traffic on the M1 August 22 – A regular route bus with 33 passengers on board, collided with a Petro truck, plunging into a ravine at an expressway in Yan'an
Yan'an
Yan'an , is a prefecture-level city in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province in China, administering several counties, including Zhidan County , which served as the Chinese communist capital before the city of Yan'an proper took that role....
, Shanbei
Shanbei
Shanbei specifies the northern portion of Shaanxi province, Northwest China, and is a natural as well as cultural area, forming part of the Loess Plateau...
, Shaanxi
Shaanxi
' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...
, China, killing 23. 10 September – A bus and a truck collide at high speeds during heavy rain near the city of Valencia, Venezuela
Valencia, Venezuela
Valencia is the capital city of Carabobo State, and the third largest city of Venezuela.The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. The population of Valencia reached some 1.5 million in the year 2003, and it is expected to grow dramatically...
, killing 34. September 20 – A bus and a train collide near Malak Wal in Pakistani Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
, killing over 40. October 1 – Multi-vehicle accident when a truck collides with a bus on Interstate 90
Interstate 90 in Illinois
In the U.S. state of Illinois, Interstate 90 runs roughly northwest through the northern end of the state, from the Indiana border to Wisconsin. I-90 traverses a variety of settings, from farmland west of the Fox River Valley to medium-density suburban west of O'Hare International Airport, to the...
near Hampshire, Illinois
Hampshire, Illinois
Hampshire is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States.-Geography:Hampshire is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
, killing 8 and injuring 15. October 9 – 59 people, mostly schoolgirls, are killed in a collision between a bus, a truck and a minivan near Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 23 November – 14 passengers were killed in a bus tragedy
2003 Merapoh bus tragedy
The 2003 Merapoh bus tragedy took place on 23 November 2003 when an Ekspres Mutiara bus collided with another bus at kilometre 63 of Lipis-Merapoh Road near the Pahang-Kelantan border, Malaysia...
at kilometer 63 of Lipis and Merapoh roads (Federal Route 8
Malaysia Federal Route 8
Federal Route 8 , also known as the Gua Musang Highway, is a main federal road in Malaysia. It connects Bentong in the south until Kota Bharu in the north...
) near Merapoh
Merapoh
Merapoh is a small town situated in the Lipis district of Pahang, Malaysia. Located near Pahang-Kelantan border.Jalan Bukit Tujuh is an infamous short strip of road along the route from Merapoh in the state of Pahang to Gua Musang in the state of Kelantan. The strip which is in the state of...
, Pahang
Pahang
Pahang is the third largest state in Malaysia, after Sarawak and Sabah, occupying the huge Pahang River river basin. It is bordered to the north by Kelantan, to the west by Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, to the south by Johor and to the east by Terengganu and the South China Sea.Its state...
. December 17 – A regular São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
–Fortaleza
Fortaleza
Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. With a population close to 2.5 million , Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil. It has an area of and one of the highest demographic densities in the country...
long distance route bus falls 120 feet down a cliff, when driver loses control on a corner at the outskirts of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil, killing at least 20, another 40 are injured. December 18 – A chartered Simferopol
Simferopol
-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...
–Alushta
Alushta
Alushta is a resort town in Crimea, Ukraine, founded in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian. It is situated on the Black Sea on the road from Gurzuf to Sudak, as well as on the Crimean Trolleybus line....
bus carrying local coal miners, veered off a mountain road and plunged into a deep ditch at Simferopolskyi, Crimea
Crimea
Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...
, Ukraine, killing 17, another 19 are injured. December 20 – A German tourist bus smashed into a concrete highway barrier and burst into flames in Hensies
Hensies
Hensies is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 6,698 inhabitants. The total area is 25.99 km², giving a population density of 258 inhabitants per km².-References:...
, a town on the Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
border with France, killing 11 people and injuring 37 others.
2004
9 January – Bhakkar bus crash, Pakistan, at least 56 die as bus rolls into a ravine. 21 February, Dublin.five die and 17 injured when a bus surges forward crushing people waiting at a bus stop. 22 February – A bus tumbles off a dam into a reservoir near FortalezaFortaleza
Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. With a population close to 2.5 million , Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil. It has an area of and one of the highest demographic densities in the country...
, Brazil, killing over 40 people 19 March – 23 people killed in the Konginkangas bus disaster, Finland. March 29 – A Gondar
Gondar
Gondar or Gonder is a city in Ethiopia, which was once the old imperial capital and capital of the historic Begemder Province. As a result, the old province of Begemder is sometimes referred to as Gondar...
–Adis Zemen regular route bus plunged into a gorge at on the outskirts of Libo Kemkem, Amhara
Amhara Region
Amhara is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. Previously known as Region 3, its capital is Bahir Dar....
, Ethiopia, killing 37. April 1 – A local bus plunged off a road into Fuxi River at Zigong
Zigong
Zigong , ancient name Ziliujing and Gongjing, is a prefecture-level city and the third largest city in Sichuan Province, in southwest China.-Geography:...
, Sichuan
Sichuan
' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...
, China, killing 15, another 39 are injured. April 4 – A bus carrying 50 people(34 students & 16 teachers) crashes and falls in the river Lim on the border between Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
and Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
close to the village of Gostun. 12 of the children drowned and a number of passengers were injured. The accident happened during night time. It is supposed that the driver lost control of the bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
. April 27 – A bus and a truck collides in Haima
Al Wusta Region (Oman)
Al Wusta is one of the regions of Oman. Its capital is Haima .Al Wusta Region consists of four wilayat: Haima, Duqm, Mahout and Al Jazer....
, Oman, killing 21 people and injuring 13 others in one of the country's worst road accidents. May 24 – A bus carrying 54 passengers on board plunged into the verge of narrow road at on the outskirts of Korbous, Tunisia, in an incident caused by technical problem, killing 19, another 31 are injured. June 8 – A bus carrying wedding family and guest veered out of control and plunged into Bagmati river bridge at Runisaitpul, Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, India, killing 65. 16 June – Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
, Pakistan, at least 50 die in collision between a bus and a tractor. June 16 – A charter bus carrying Buddhism pilgrims plunged into a lake, and swerved to avoid another vehicle at outskirt of Xinyu
Xinyu
-History:Xinyu has a history of more than 1,700 years. It became a county in 267 during the Three Kingdoms period.-Geography:Xinyu has an area of 3,178 km². It is located 135 km southwest of the city of Nanchang, the capital of the Jiangxi province - about two and half hours away by car via highway...
, Jiangxi
Jiangxi
' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...
, China, killing 21, in an incident caused by driver has exceed speed. 24 June – A tanker carrying 17,000 litres of petrol collides with a bus in Zahedan
Zahedan
Zahedan is a city in and the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 552,706, in 109,488 families.-Geography:...
, near Bam, Iran
Bam, Iran
Bam is a city in and the capital of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 73,823, in 19,572 families.The modern Iranian city of Bam surrounds the Bam citadel. Before the 2003 earthquake the official population count of the city was roughly 43,000. There are...
. 90 people are killed. 30 July – A Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
travel bus and an Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian truck collide head-on near Erzurum
Erzurum
Erzurum is a city in Turkey. It is the largest city, the capital of Erzurum Province. The city is situated 1757 meters above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 361,235 in the 2000 census. .Erzurum, known as "The Rock" in NATO code, served as NATO's southeastern-most air force post during the...
and Erzincan
Erzincan
-Trivia:Erzincan has the largest man made of Portrait of Atatürk, located north of the city, 176m×43m. It covers 7,500 square meter. Turkish Army made it 1982, in 29 days by 3,000 soldier, 100 tons of black and white paint was used...
in Eastern Anatolia, killing 26 and injuring 30. August 15 – A local bus plunged to ravine at outskirt of Carolina
Carolina, San Miguel
Carolina is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador....
, San Miguel
San Miguel Department (El Salvador)
San Miguel is a department of El Salvador in the eastern part of the country. The capital is San Miguel. It has 2,077 km² and a population of over 450,000...
, El Salvador, killing 35. September 12 – A Khoy
Khoy
Khoy is a city in and the capital of Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 178,708, in 45,090 families....
–Mashhad
Mashhad
Mashhad , is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shia Muslim world. It is also the only major Iranian city with an Arabic name. It is located east of Tehran, at the center of the Razavi Khorasan Province close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its...
regular route bus crush by overturned and exhaustion by bus driver at outskirt of Changureh, Avaj
Avaj
Avaj is a city in and capital of Avaj District, in Buin Zahra County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census its population was 3,695, in 1,042 families....
, Iran, killing 18. October 12 – A charter Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
–Jiuzhaigou
Jiuzhaigou County
Jiuzhaigou County is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. Formerly called Nanping County , it was renamed in 1998 to reflect the fact that the Jiuzhaigou Valley is located within its administration.The county...
bus crashed into a wall, and plunged into the Fujiang River, Mianyang
Mianyang
Mianyang is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwest China. Its administrative area includes the city proper of Mianyang, with 985,586 inhabitants in the built up area , the county-level city of Jiangyou, and six counties, covering an area of over and a population...
, Pingwu, Sichuan
Sichuan
' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...
, China, killing 24, another 21 are injured. The incident was caused by the driver's excessive speed. 6 November – Seven are killed and 71 injured when a passenger train hits a car and derails
Ufton Nervet rail crash
The Ufton Nervet rail crash was a railway accident between a train and car near Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England that caused seven deaths.-Collision:...
near Ufton Nervet
Ufton Nervet
Ufton Nervet is a village and civil parish about southwest of Reading, Berkshire, England.-Location:Ufton Nervet village is in hills south of the River Kennet, and its parish stretches down into the valley to the north as far as the A4 road. Two narrow lanes connect the village to the A4, crossing...
, England. November 7 – A trailer truck carrying sugar was passing a car and collided with a bus on the outskirts of Zafarana, Minya, Egypt
Minya, Egypt
Minya is the capital of Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt. It is located approximately south of Cairo on the western bank of the Nile River, which flows north through the city...
. The bus was carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca. 33 were killed, and 14 were injured. December 21 – A bus plunged 150-feet into a river while travelling a Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
–Paccllpa mountainous jungle road in the outskirts of Aksaray
Aksaray
Aksaray is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital district of Aksaray Province. According to 2009 census, population of the province is 376 907 of which 171,423 live in the city of Aksaray. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is , with the highest...
, Ucayali
Ucayali
The Ucayali River arises about north of Lake Titicaca, in the Arequipa region of South America. The Amazon River takes its name close to Nauta city , in the confluence among Ucayali and Marañón rivers....
, Peru, killing 49. Another 15 are injured. December 25 – A bus plunged into a deep ravine on the outskirts of Kuntrili, Punjab of Pakistan; the accident was caused when the bus driver lost control due to excessive speed, killing 18. Another 39 were injured.
2005
3 January – A truck overloaded with TibetTibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
an Buddhist pilgrims overturns in Qinghai
Qinghai
Qinghai ; Oirat Mongolian: ; ; Salar:) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after Qinghai Lake...
province, China killing 54. 6 January – A truck and a bus collide on a highway in Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...
province, China killing 28 and injuring 19. January 10 – A bus failed to negotiate a sharp curve and plunged into Almatti Dam
Almatti Dam
The Almatti Dam is a dam project on the Krishna River in North Karnataka, India. The annual energy design is 713 million units. It was completed in July 2005....
, outskirt of Bijapur, Karnataka
Bijapur, Karnataka
Bijapur Urdu:بیجاپور city is the district headquarters of Bijapur District of Karnataka state. Bijapur city is well known for its historical monuments of architectural importance built during the rule of Adil Shahi dynasty...
, India, killing 57. January 16 – A local passenger bus collided with a trailer truck, where coming from the opposite directions at outskirt of La Sabana
La Sabana
La Sabana is a village and municipality in Chaco Province in northern Argentina.-References:...
, Santander
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, Colombia, killing 27, another injuring are 29. January 21 – A passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged into 500-feet ravine, when the driver swerved to avoid rocks falling from the mountain side, between Shiraz
Shiraz
Shiraz may refer to:* Shiraz, Iran, a city in Iran* Shiraz County, an administrative subdivision of Iran* Vosketap, Armenia, formerly called ShirazPeople:* Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet* Ara Shiraz, Armenian sculptor...
-Kazero, Mazandaran, Iran, killing 28. 3 February – 55 wedding guests die in the Nagpur level crossing disaster
Nagpur level crossing disaster
The Nagpur level crossing disaster was an accident that occurred on 3 February 2005, when a crowded trailer being towed by a tractor was hit by a train near the village of Kanan, 20km from Nagpur in Maharashtra, India...
, India. 8 March – A school bus catches fire in Shandong
Shandong
' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...
, China, killing 12 children. April 17 – A bus carrying tourists slides 800 feet down a ravine at Great-St-Bernard, between Orsieres
Orsières
Orsières is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.-Geography:Orsières has an area, , of . Of this area, 16.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 25.2% is forested...
and Liddes
Liddes
Liddes is a municipality in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.-Geography:Liddes has an area, , of . Of this area, 33.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.8% is forested...
, Valais
Valais
The Valais is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps. The canton is one of the drier parts of Switzerland in its central Rhône valley...
, Switzerland, killing 12, another 15 are injured. April 19 – A regular route bus plunged off 240-feet bridge at outskirt of Qianjiang
Qianjiang District
Qianjiang District is a district in the southeastern part of Chongqing Municipality of the People's Republic of China. The Miao and Tujia constitute 50.03% of the Qianjiang population, the other half being mostly Han...
, Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
, China, killing 27 and injuring four. 21 April – 31 war veterans die in bus crash on the old Ho Chi Minh trail
Ho Chi Minh trail
The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia...
, Vietnam. 27 April – over 50 people are killed in the Polgahawela level crossing collision
Polgahawela level crossing collision
On April 27, 2005, at Polgahawela in Sri Lanka, a serious bus accident occurred on a level crossing.- Overview :The bus was a local service to Alawwa, reportedly carrying over 90 people. At 0830AM to 0845AM local time , the bus was travelling through Polgahawela, 80 km north-east of Colombo...
when a bus is hit by train. May 7 – A passenger bus plunged 1,000 feet below into gorge at Pampa, Pallasca, Ancash, Peru, killing 40, another 18 are injured. 22 May – 35 are killed in the Jauja bus disaster, Peru when a bus plunges off a bridge. 23 May. five School Girls die and more than forty injured when School Bus crashes and overturns in Co Meath.Republic of Ireland. 7 June – 38 people killed in the Badarmude bus explosion
Badarmude bus explosion
The Badarmude bus explosion was a terrorist attack on a civilian commuter coach in Southern Nepal near the village of Badarmude on July 6, 2005.- Overview :...
, when a bus struck a land mine. June 21 – A charter bus carrying BSNL Indian state telecom employees failed to negotiate a sharp curve and plunged into a gorge at outskirt of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 18, another 20 are injured. July 9 – A bus from Srinagar
Srinagar
Srinagar is the summer seasonal capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is situated in Kashmir Valley and lies on the banks of the Jhelum River, a tributary of the Indus. It is one of the largest cities in India not to have a Hindu majority. The city is famous for its gardens, lakes and houseboats...
plunged into a deep river gerge off a Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
–Badrinath expressway, Rishikesh, Uttaranchal, India, killing 25. July 17 – A Kaishan of Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
–Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...
regular route bus slipped off mountain and plunged into a deep valley at outskirt of Enshi City
Enshi City
- Transportation :* Yiwan Railway* China National Highway 209* G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway, which crosses the Qingjiang River near the city over the Qingjiang Bridge.-External links:*...
, Hubei
Hubei
' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...
, China, killing 17, another 37 are injured. July 23 – A Lagos
Lagos
Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
–Kano
Kano
Kano is a city in Nigeria and the capital of Kano State in Northern Nigeria. Its metropolitan population is the second largest in Nigeria after Lagos. The Kano Urban area covers 137 sq.km and comprises six Local Government Area - Kano Municipal, Fagge, Dala, Gwale, Tarauni and Nassarawa - with a...
regular route bus plundged into the Gadar Tanburawa river bridge at Maiduguri
Maiduguri
Maiduguri, also fondly called Yerwa by its locals, is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria. The city sits along the seasonal Ngadda River which disappears into the Firki swamps in the areas around Lake Chad...
, Borno
Borno State
Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. Its capital is Maiduguri. The state was formed in 1976 from the split of the North-Eastern State...
, Nigeria, killing 56. August 24 – When a kindergarten bus crossing an intersection at a bridge, as the lights changed, when a cyclist pulled out in front and a bus ploughed onto the crowded pavement at China State Highway 318, Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...
, Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
, China, killing 19 and 16 injured. August 24 – A Wenling-Lichuan regular route bus crashed through the roadside barrier and slide down a 320-feet bank at Lichuan, Hubei, China, killing 14 and injuring 40. 23 September – 24 elderly people died when their bus caught fire as they flee Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $11.3 billion in damage on the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 2005...
near Wilmer, Texas
Wilmer, Texas
Wilmer is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,393 at the 2000 census. A July 1, 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 3,576...
. 15 October – A speeding bus falls into a river in Bogra District
Bogra District
Bogra is a northern district of Bangladesh, in the Rajshahi Division. It is called the gateway to the north Bengal. It is an industrial city where many small and mid sized industries are housed. Bogra district was a part of the ancient Pundravardhana territory and Bogra was the capital of...
, Bangladesh, killing 25 people. December 6 – A freight truck carrying colcium carbide, other regular route Beijing Bus vehicle suffered a brake failure rammed, and both vehicles are overturned with dropped into 60-feet ditch and caught fire at Badaling Expressway
Badaling Expressway
The Badaling Expressway is an expressway in the People's Republic of China which links urban Beijing to the Badaling stretch of the Great Wall of China...
, between Changping
Changping
Changping may refer to:*Princess Changping , princess of the Ming Dynasty*Battle of Changping , campaign of the Warring States Period of China*Changping District , Beijing*Changping Town , Dongguan, Guangdong...
–Nankou, outskirt of Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, China, killing 24. 24 December – A bus plunges into the icy Yellow River
Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He, formerly known as the Hwang Ho, is the second-longest river in China and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into...
in Hanggin Banner, Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the countries of Mongolia and the Russian Federation...
, China, killing 28. December 28 – An Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...
–Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
regular route bus collided with a chemical tank truck at Barach, Gujarat, India, killing 22.
2006
January 8 – According to Ecuadorean police report, two buses collision and crashed on Puerto Inca–NaranjalNaranjal, Ecuador
Naranjal is a city located in southern Guayas, Ecuador, near Azuay province. It is the seat of Naranjal Canton, created in 1960.As of the census of 2001, there are 53,482 people residing within canton limits. The city is communicated with Guayaquil and Machala....
Highway, Churute, Guayas
Guayas Province
Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean ; to the east by Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, and Azuay; to the north by Los Ríos and Bolívar; and to the south by El Oro and the Pacific Ocean.With a population of over 3...
, Ecuador, in an incident caused by both buses are exceed speed, killing 14, another 30 are injured. 13 January – A bus collides with a train in heavy fog in Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai
-External links:* **...
, 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 São Paulo State in Brazil, killing 33 people. January 31 – A bus carrying Cantonese tourist crush after overturned at national highway, Hurghada
Hurghada
Hurghada is a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. It is a main tourist center and second largest city in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.- Overview :...
, Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
, Egypt, killing 14, and another 30 are injured. January 31 – Two buses collide at Qena
Qena
Qena is a city in Upper Egypt, and the capital of the Qena Governorate. Situated on the east bank of the Nile, it was known as Kaine during the Greco-Roman period and as Cainepolis in antiquity.- Overview :...
, Upper Egypt, killing 18, another 24 are injured. 7 February – 12 Turkish
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
tourists die when their bus plunges into a ravine in Rome, Italy. 17 February – One killed, 2 injured in a massive 60-cars pile-up on Autoroute 40
Quebec Autoroute 40
Autoroute 40 is a major highway on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. It is one of the two main connections between Montreal and Quebec City...
near Lavaltrie, Quebec
Lavaltrie, Quebec
Lavaltrie is a city located within the D'Autray Regional County Municipality in the southern part of the region of Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada, northeast of Montreal outside of the suburban sprawl of the northern crown...
. 18 February – Cardross road accident
Cardross road accident
The Cardross road accident refers to a hit and run accident at Cardross, Victoria, Australia at 9.50pm on 18 February 2006, where a driver driving a Ford BA Falcon station wagon, collided with a group of thirteen teenage pedestrians, killing five immediately and injuring eight more...
: 6 people are killed in an alleged hit and run
Hit and run (vehicular)
Hit-and-run is the act of causing a traffic accident , and failing to stop and identify oneself afterwards...
accident in Cardross
Cardross, Victoria
Cardross is a small town approximately 15 km south east of Mildura, in north western Victoria, Australia. At the 2006 census, Cardross and the surrounding area had a population of 739...
, Australia. March 10 – According to Turkish news agency Anatolia
Anatolia
Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...
report, A Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
–Van
Van, Turkey
Van is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of the Kurdish-majority Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city's official population in 2010 was 367,419, but many estimates put this as much higher with a 1996 estimate stating 500,000 and former Mayor Burhan...
regular route bus careered off the road, and plunged Kelkit River
Kelkit River
The Kelkit River , is a river in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. It is the longest tributary of the Yeşil River....
at outskirt of Tokat
Tokat
Tokat is the capital city of Tokat Province of Turkey, at the mid Black Sea region of Anatolia. According to the 2009 census, the city of Tokat has a population of 129,879.-History:Tokat was established in the Hittite era....
, middle-eastern Turkey, killing 30. 22 March – Twelve Americans die when a tour bus falls into a canyon near Arica
Arica
Arica is a city in northern Chile. "Arica" may also refer to:Places* Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile* Arica Airport , Chile* Arica, Amazonas, town in Colombia* Rio Aricá-açu, tributary of the Cuiabá River south of Cuiabá, BrazilOther...
, Chile. 17 April – 57 people die in the Maltrata bus crash
Maltrata bus crash
The Maltrata bus crash was a road accident on 17 April 2006 near the Mexican town of Maltrata, around 125 kilometers from Mexico City, in which 57 people died.- Overview :...
in central Mexico. 20 April – At least 47 die when bus falls into a lake at Sarupeta, India April 21 – According to Bangladeshi ATN Bangla
ATN Bangla
ATN Bangla is a Bengali language digital cable television channel. It transmits from its studio in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The channel is transmitted in South Asia, the Middle-east, Europe, and North America. The channel offers a wide variety of programming including news, movies, dramas, talk shows,...
television report, a bus carrying wedding couples and families, where plunged into Chitra River and gone down 30-feet deep river at outskirt of Narail, Bangladesh, killing 40. May 12 – According to MENA
MENA
The term MENA, for "Middle East and North Africa", is an acronym often used in academic, military planning and business writing.The term covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including the majority of both the Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries...
news agency of Egypt report, a bus carrying weaving company employees has overturned and plunged into canal at between Karr al Battikh and Danietta, Nile Delta
Nile Delta
The Nile Delta is the delta formed in Northern Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers some 240 km of Mediterranean coastline—and is a rich...
, Egypt, killing 21, another 20 are injured. 16 May – At least 35 die when two buses collide head-on near Kumasi
Kumasi
Kumasi is a city in southern central Ghana's Ashanti region. It is located near Lake Bosomtwe, in the Rain Forest Region about northwest of Accra. Kumasi is approximately north of the Equator and north of the Gulf of Guinea...
, Ghana May 17 – According to Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an TVN
Televisión Nacional de Chile
TVN is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America...
report, a regular routeb bus landed on its roof as plunged off Tinguiririca River
Tinguiririca River
Tinguiririca River is a river of Chile located in the O'Higgins Region. It rises in the Andes, at the confluence of the rivers Las Damas and Del Azufre. From its source, it flows northwest for about 56 km to the vicinity of the city of San Fernando. In this portion of its course, the river receives...
, Rancagua
Rancagua
Rancagua is a city and commune in central Chile, part of the Rancagua conurbation. It is the capital of the Cachapoal Province and of the O'Higgins Region, located south of the national capital of Santiago. It had a 2002 population of 214,344...
, O'Higgins, Chile
O'Higgins, Chile
O'Higgins is a Chilean commune located around O'Higgins Lake in the south east of Aisén Region. The commune is administered by the municipality in Villa O'Higgins, the principal settlement.-Demographics:...
, killing 23 and injuring 26. 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. May 31 – According to Ethiopian News Agency report, a Essie–Baherder regular route bus plunged into a 500-feet deep ravine at outskirt of Kelto, Amhara
Amhara Region
Amhara is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people. Previously known as Region 3, its capital is Bahir Dar....
, Ethiopia, Killing 17 and injuring 36. 15 June – A bus carrying 45 miners from the Uchucchacua mine to Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
in Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
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. June 2006 - Sunday News - It has happened again. Over a week ago, a speeding minibus crashed into a river in Mirerani, killing 57 people. Four days later near Arusha
Arusha
Arusha is a city in northern Tanzania. It is the capital of the Arusha Region, which claims a population of 1,288,088, including 281,608 for the Arusha District . Arusha is surrounded by some of Africa's most famous landscapes and national parks...
, another bus accident claimed four lives. 19 July; Coach carrying school children from Walney Island, Cumbria to a theme park in Southport overturned on the M6 near to Lancaster University, no other vehicles were involved and no-one was killed but 5 people were taken to hospital, the 34 seater coach lost control and was left on its side blocking all three south-bound lanes August 18 – According to Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, also known as TRT , is the national public broadcaster of Turkey and was founded in 1964. Around 70% of TRT's funding comes from a tax levied on electricity bills and a sales tax on television and radio receivers...
report, a bus carrying Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian travellers returning from Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
has collided with a truck at outskirt of Chaldoran, West Azarbaijan, Turkey, killing 17, another injuring are 26. August 30 – According to Moroccan
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
news agency Maghreb Arabe Presse report, a bus carrying 50 passengers on board rolled over outskirt of Setta, Chaouia-Ouardigha
Chaouia-Ouardigha
Chaouia-Ouardigha ) is one of the sixteen regions of Morocco. It is situated in north-central Morocco. It covers an area of 7,010 km² and has a population of 1,655,660 . The capital is Settat....
, Morocco, in an incident caused by bus driver has excessive speed, killing 17, another 26 are injured. 13 September – 30 vehicle accident on Interstate 696
Interstate 696
Interstate 696 is an intrastate Interstate Highway entirely within the US state of Michigan. I-696 is also known as the Walter P. Reuther Freeway, named for a prominent figure in early automobile factory labor union activity. I-696 is a spur route, partially circling the city of Detroit, but...
in Farmington Hills, Michigan
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Farmington Hills is a community in southeastern Michigan. It is the largest city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Its population was 79,740 at the 2010 census...
, including a transport truck and two cars that drove off the road into the forest to the side of the freeway. The accident was caused by severe thunderstorms in the area. There were no fatalities or serious injuries, and many of the drivers involved stepped out of their cars and helped to clean up the road with the Michigan State Police
Michigan State Police
The Michigan State Police is the state police agency for the state of Michigan. The MSP is a full service law enforcement agency with its sworn members having full police powers statewide....
. Speed and the weather may have been a factor in the accident. (Courtesy: WDIV-TV
WDIV-TV
WDIV-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned by Post-Newsweek Stations and is the flagship station and home base of the group with the offices of the group located alongside WDIV's studios; the "Local" branding now...
, http://www.clickondetroit.com) 24 September – Forty-seven people die when a bus crashes into a wall on a road in Papallacta
Papallacta
Papallacta is a small village in Ecuador located at an altitude of 3,300 m in the Andes just off the Eastern Cordilleras on the road from Quito which leads into the Amazon jungle. The scenic drive from Quito to Papallacta passes through several towns and small villages before ascending to a peak of...
, Ecuador. 30 September – De la Concorde Overpass collapse
De la Concorde overpass collapse
On September 30, 2006, part of an overpass collapsed in Laval, a suburb of Montreal, on Boulevard de la Concorde running over Autoroute 19. The collapse crushed two vehicles under it, killing five people and seriously injuring six others who went over the edge while travelling on the overpass...
: Five are killed and six injured when a 65-feet section of a 3-lanes overpass over Autoroute 19
Quebec Autoroute 19
Autoroute 19, also known as Autoroute Papineau , is an autoroute in Quebec. It crosses the Rivière des Prairies via the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge, connecting the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in Montreal and the Duvernay neighbourhood in Laval.There are plans to widen Route 335 to four lanes,...
collapses in Laval, Quebec
Laval, Quebec
Laval is a Canadian city and a region in southwestern Quebec. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest municipality in the province of Quebec, and the 14th largest city in Canada with a population of 368,709 in 2006...
. 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
Jialing River
The Jialing River is a tributary of the Yangtze River with its source in Gansu province. It gets its name from its crossing the Jialing Vale in Feng County of Shaanxi. It was once known as Langshui or Yushui .-Overview:...
in Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
, China. 3 October – Twelve killed and 16 injured when a truck and a bus collide near Menbej, in northwest Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
. 8 October – Forty-two people die when a bus falls down a ravine during foggy and rainy conditions in Chiantla
Chiantla
Chiantla is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango. It is situated at 2,000m above sea level. It covers a terrain of 536km2.The annual festival is on January 28.-External links:**...
, Guatemala. 8 October – A double-decker bus crashes into a truck in northern Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, killing 12 people. 9 October – Twelve people helping in Typhoon Xangsane
Typhoon Xangsane
The name Xangsane has been used to name two tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by Laos and is a Laotian word for elephant.* 2000's Typhoon Xangsane - affected the Philippines and Taiwan....
relief efforts are killed in a van accident in Khanh Hoa Province
Khanh Hoa Province
Khánh Hòa is a province of Vietnam, located in the South Central Coast. It has a population of 1,066,300 and spans an area of 5,197 km². Its capital is Nha Trang...
, Vietnam. 15 October – Two buses and a truck collide in Sivas Province
Sivas Province
The Sivas Province is a province of Turkey. It located at the eastern part of the Central Anatolian region of Turkey; it is the second largest province in Turkey. Its adjacent provinces are Yozgat to the west, Kayseri to the southwest, Kahramanmaraş to the south, Malatya to the southeast, Erzincan...
, Turkey, killing 13 and injuring more than 20. 19 October – A bus overcrowded with passengers plunges into a reservoir in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
, India, killing 56 people. 21 October – A bus plunges off a mountain road between Sucre and Cochabamba
Cochabamba
Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...
in Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, killing 29 and injuring 25. 23 October – A bus catches fire in downtown Panama City
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
, killing 18 people. 25 October – A bus falls off the road and into the Teesta River
Teesta River
River Teesta or Tista is said to be the lifeline of the Indian state of Sikkim, flowing for almost the entire length of the state and carving out verdant Himalayan temperate and tropical river valleys. The emerald-coloured river then forms the border between Sikkim and West Bengal before joining...
in Sikkim
Sikkim
Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayan mountains...
, India, killing 25 and injuring 45. 26 October – A bus crashes down an embankment near Arequipa
Arequipa
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...
, Peru, killing 20 and injuring 12. 28 October – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, killing 42 and injuring 43. 31 October – Floods sweep away a minibus travelling in Diyarbakir Province
Diyarbakir Province
Diyarbakır Province is a province in eastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15,355 km² and the population is 1,528,958. The provincial capital is Diyarbakir...
, Turkey, killing 14 people. 8 November – A truck transporting farm workers plunges into a river in Hoshangabad District
Hoshangabad District
Hoshangabad District is one of the districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India, and Hoshangabad town is the district headquarters.-Geography:...
, India, killing 29 and injuring 30. 13 November – A truck carrying workers is hit by a train
2006 Cape Town truck-train collision
The Faure level crossing accident occurred at approximately 8 a.m. on 13 November 2006 when a Metrorail train collided with a truck that had stalled on an uncontrolled level crossing at Faure near Somerset West, a town outside Cape Town, South Africa...
near Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, South Africa. 19 are killed and 6 injured. 14 November – A bus plunges into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, India, killing 13 and injuring 41. 26 November – A truck carrying passengers veers off the road on a sharp curve in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, 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
Puno Region
Puno is a region in southeastern Peru. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the Madre de Dios Region on the north, the Cusco and Arequipa regions on the west, the Moquegua Region on the southwest, and the Tacna Region on the south...
, 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
Mae Sot
- External links :* * : an audio documentary.* *...
, Tak Province
Tak Province
Tak is one of the northern provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani and Kanchanaburi...
, 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
Bagua, Peru
Bagua is a city in Peru located about from the city of Chachapoyas. It lies in the provincia of the same name.-External links:*...
, killing 21 and injuring 30. December 22 – According to Nigerian Vanguard Online report, two passenger buses head collided at Owena, outskirt of Akure
Akure
Akure is a city in the southwestern region of Nigeria, and is the largest city and capital of Ondo State. The city has a population of approximately 387,087...
, Ondo
Ondo State
Ondo State, Nigeria was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. It originally included what is now Ekiti State, which was split off in 1996. Akure is the state capital.-Government and society:...
, Nigeria, in an incident caused bya bus was trying go overtake a car, when it collided head on with a regular route bus coming opposite direction, killing 17. 24 December – A bus goes out of control, overturns and smashes into bridge supports near Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838, and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its "purist" Zulu name is umGungundlovu, and this is the name used for the district municipality...
, South Africa, killing 12 and injuring 40. 25 December – Two minivans collide in Kabardino-Balkaria
Kabardino-Balkaria
The Kabardino-Balkar Republic , or Kabardino-Balkaria , is a federal subject of Russia located in the North Caucasus. Population: -Geography:The republic is situated in the North Caucasus mountains, with plains in the northern part....
, Russia, causing a methane
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is the simplest alkane, the principal component of natural gas, and probably the most abundant organic compound on earth. The relative abundance of methane makes it an attractive fuel...
explosion that kills 13 people. A collision in the industrial town of Cuautitlan outside Mexico city saw 24 people lose their lives on 28 December when their bus collided with a 36-wagon freight train. Another 12 passengers were hurt. Police arrested the bus driver who reportedly tried to flee the scene. December 29 – According to Yunnan Television report, a bus carrying 21 passengers dash and hit three road workers and then plunged 95-yards down a cliff at outskirt of Baoshan, Yunnan, China, killing 17 and seven injured.
2007
6 January – A bus travelling from DhakaDhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
to Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong ) is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...
crashes and catches fire
2007 Comilla bus crash
On 6 January 2007, at approximately 1:15pm , in Suwagazi, Comilla District, Bangladesh, a bus carrying between 60 and 100 people on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway ran off the road into a ditch and burst into flames which ignited the fuel tank, which then exploded.It was reported that the bus was...
near Comilla
Comilla
Comilla is a city in south-eastern Bangladesh, located along the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. It is the administrative center of the Comilla District, part of the Chittagong Division. The Eastern Wing of Bangladesh Highway Police is located in Comilla....
, Bangladesh, killing from 55 to 70 people. January 11 – According to IRIB television of Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
report, a truck lost control and smashed into a regular route bus at Arak
Arak, Iran
-Industries:thumb|right|250px|wagon parsArak is one of the main industrial cities of Iran, possessing many plants for heavy industries especially for the metal and machinery industries, including:...
–Malayer
Malayer
Malayer , also Romanized as Dowlatābād and Daūlatābād) is a city in and capital of Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 153,748, in 40,750 families....
expressway, outskirt of Arak, Markazi
Markazi Province
Markazi Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. The word markazi means central in Persian. Markazi lies in western Iran. Its capital is Arak. Its population is estimated at 1.35 million...
, Iran, killing 14. 12 January – Two buses collide near the border between Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
and United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
, killing 22 hajj
Hajj
The Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest pilgrimages in the world, and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so...
pilgrims. 15 January – A bus collides head-on with a tractor-trailer in Cesar Department
Cesar Department
Cesar Department or simply Cesar is a department of Colombia located in the north of the country in the Caribbean region, bordering to the north with the Department of La Guajira, to the west with the Department of Magdalena and Department of Bolivar, to the south with Department of Santander, to...
, Colombia, killing 20 people. 19 January – A double-decker bus plunges into a river near Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai sometimes written as "Chiengmai" or "Chiangmai", is the largest and most culturally significant city in northern Thailand. It is the capital of Chiang Mai Province , a former capital of the Kingdom of Lanna and was the tributary Kingdom of Chiang Mai from 1774 until 1939. It is...
, Thailand, killing 22 people. 22 January – A speeding bus overturns 250 miles northeast of Kampala
Kampala
Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. The city is coterminous with Kampala District.-History: of Buganda, had chosen...
, Uganda, leading to 21 deaths and 30 injuries. 24 January – A bus falls into a ravine near Huautla, Oaxaca
Oaxaca
Oaxaca , , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 571 municipalities; of which 418 are governed by the system of customs and traditions...
, 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
Aleppo
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...
and Ar Raqqah
Ar Raqqah
Ar-Raqqah , also spelled Rakka, is a city in north central Syria located on the north bank of the Euphrates, about 160 km east of Aleppo. It is the capital of the Ar-Raqqah Governorate and one of the main cities of the historical Diyār Muḍar, the western part of the Jazīra...
in northern Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, 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
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
, killing 16. 2 February – A tanker carrying liquefied carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
crashes, overturns and explodes in Tigbao
Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur
Tigbao is a 5th class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 16,914 people in 3,089 households.Mt...
, Philippines, killing 50 and injuring 65. 8 February – A train collides with a bus at a level crossing
Level crossing
A level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...
in Khanh Hoa Province
Khanh Hoa Province
Khánh Hòa is a province of Vietnam, located in the South Central Coast. It has a population of 1,066,300 and spans an area of 5,197 km². Its capital is Nha Trang...
, Vietnam, killing 13 and injuring 24. E1 Train Disaster
E1 Train Disaster
The 2005 Phú Lộc derailment was an accident to an express passenger train that derailed in central Vietnam on 12 March 2005 when it was running on the Thong Nhat Railway, killing 11 people and injuring hundreds, many of which were in a serious condition after the crash...
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
Carnival
Carnaval is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnaval typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party...
in Oruro, Bolivia
Oruro, Bolivia
Oruro is a city in Bolivia with a population of 235,393 , located about equidistant between La Paz and Sucre at approximately 3710 meters above sea level. It is the capital of the department of Oruro....
, killing 15 people. 2 March – 7 people are killed when a bus transporting the Bluffton University
Bluffton University
Bluffton University, located in Bluffton, Ohio, United States, is a Christian liberal arts college affiliated with Mennonite Church USA.It was founded in 1899 as Central Mennonite College and became Bluffton College in 1913...
baseball team crashes through a barrier and lands
Bluffton University bus accident
The Bluffton University bus accident was an automobile accident which occurred during the early morning hours of March 2, 2007, on Interstate 75 in Atlanta, Georgia....
on Interstate 75
Interstate 75
Interstate 75 is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the Great Lakes and Southeastern regions of the United States. It travels from State Road 826 and State Road 924 in Hialeah, Florida to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, at the Ontario, Canada, border...
in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. 6 March – A bus collides with a freight train at a level crossing in Harare
Harare
Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
, Zimbabwe, killing 37 people. 15 March – A minibus overturns and falls into banboo-covered valley in Muding, Chuxiong
Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture located in Yunnan, China. Chuxiong has an area of 29,256 km². The capital of the prefecture is Chuxiong City.- Subdivisions :There is one county-level city and 9 counties.- Demographics :...
, Yunnan
Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...
, China, killing 14 and injuring 12. 15 March – A bus veers off the road and plunges into a reservoir in Hanzhong
Hanzhong
Hanzhong is a municipality in southwest Shaanxi Province, China, occupying a historically significant valley in the mountains between the Xi'an area, home to many Chinese capitals, and the fertile but isolated Sichuan Basin...
, Shaanxi
Shaanxi
' is a province in the central part of Mainland China, and it includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River in addition to the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of this province...
, China, killing at least 22 and injuring 11. 17 March – A bus overturns and falls into a ditch in Purulia District
Purulia District
Purulia district is one of the nineteen districts of West Bengal state in eastern India. The town of Purulia is the administrative headquarters of the district.-History:...
, 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
Saraburi Province
Saraburi is one of the central provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Lopburi, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nakhon Nayok, Pathum Thani and Ayutthaya. Saraburi has been an important town since ancient times...
, Thailand, killing 29 and injuring more than 10. 23 March – A bus and a wagon collide on a highway in Khairpur District
Khairpur District
Khairpur District is a district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The district has an area of 15,910 square kilometres and is headquartered at the city of Khairpur.-Location:...
, Pakistan, killing at least 13. 28 March – a 8,800 gallons carrying fuel truck catch fire with explode at Kagarko
Kagarko
Kagarko is a Local Government Area in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Kagarko.It has an area of 1,864 km² and a population of 240,943 at the 2006 census.It comprises about eleven districts which are, Shadalafiya, Katugal,Kushe, Jere, Dogon Kurmi,Kenyi,Kurmin Dangana,...
, Kaduna
Kaduna
Kaduna is the state capital of Kaduna State in north-central Nigeria. The city, located on the Kaduna River, is a trade center and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction. The population of Kaduna is at 760,084 as of the 2006 Nigerian census...
, Nigeria, killing at least 98, another 100 injured. 28 March. A pile-up involving around 100 vehicles kills one Woman and injutes 27 others near Newbridge Co Kildare, Irish Republic.http://rte.ie5 April – A rear tire blows out on a truck as it travels near Santa Marta
Santa Marta
Santa Marta is the capital city of the Colombian department of Magdalena in the Caribbean Region. It was founded in July 29, 1525 by the Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas, which makes it the oldest remaining city in Colombia...
, 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
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, 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
Rabat
Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...
, Morocco, killing 12 and injuring 43. 10 April – A bus travelling from Galle
Galle
Galle is a city situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo. Galle is the capital city of Southern Province of Sri Lanka and it lies in Galle District....
to Colombo in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
collides with a beer delivery truck about 40 miles south of Colombo, killing 23 and injuring 56. 11 April – A bus carrying students on a field trip crashes into a tractor trailer on King's Highway 410 in Brampton
Brampton
Brampton is the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.Brampton may also refer to:- Canada :* Brampton, a city in Ontario** Brampton GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the city- United Kingdom :...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
. One dies and five are seriously injured. 14 April – A bus transporting children from İzmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
to Cappadocia
Cappadocia
Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province.In the time of Herodotus, the Cappadocians were reported as occupying the whole region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine...
collides with a truck near Aksaray
Aksaray
Aksaray is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital district of Aksaray Province. According to 2009 census, population of the province is 376 907 of which 171,423 live in the city of Aksaray. The district covers an area of , and the average elevation is , with the highest...
, Turkey, killing 33, mostly children, and injuring 35. 14 April – A bus and a truck collide near Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...
, 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 crowded small sized bus overturned and burst into flame at outskirt of Garissa
Garissa
Garissa is a city in the North Eastern Province of Kenya. It is the capital of both the province and Garissa District.-Overview:Garissa is located at and has a population of 65,881 inhabitants . The Tana River flows through the city....
, North Eastern, Kenya, killing 15 and injuring 61. 19 April – A bus falls down a 150-meter cliff on the road between Cochabamba
Cochabamba
Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people...
and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 26 and injuring 19. 23 April – A bus drives off a highway overpass
Overpass
An overpass is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that crosses over another road or railway...
and falls 65 feet in Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
, 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
Poonch
Poonch is a town and a municipal committee in Poonch District in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Based on the Mahābhārata evidence, and the evidence from 7th Chinese traveler Xuanzang, the districts of Poonch along with Rajauri and Abhisara had been under the sway of the Republican Kambojas...
, India, killing 22 and injuring 14. 29 April – A tanker carrying gasoline catches fire in the MacArthur Maze
MacArthur Maze
The MacArthur Maze refers to the large freeway interchange located near the eastern end of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in Oakland, California and is the largest freeway interchange in the world...
, in Oakland, United States, causing 2 sections of bridge, one of which carries I-580
Interstate 580 (California)
Interstate 580 is an 80-mile east–west Interstate Highway in Northern California. The heavily traveled spur route of Interstate 80 runs from San Rafael in the San Francisco Bay Area to Interstate 5 near Tracy in the Central Valley...
, 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
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
, Pakistan, killing 21 Muslim pilgrims. 7 May – A bus drives off a road and plunges 20 meters into a cornfield in Guizhou
Guizhou
' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...
, China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
, killing 17 and injuring 25. 7 May – A speeding bus and a truck collide 90 km north of Maseru
Maseru
Maseru is the capital of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, bordering South Africa, Maseru is Lesotho's only sizable city, with a population of approximately 227,880 . The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the...
, Lesotho, killing 39 and injuring 54. May 7 – According to Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n police official report, a Llallagua-Sucre
Sucre
Sucre, also known historically as Charcas, La Plata and Chuquisaca is the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the department of Chuquisaca. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2750m...
Trans Bustillo bus overturned and crashed at outskirt of El Retiro, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 30. 10 May – A bus travelling from Ivory Coast to Togo
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...
collides with a truck full of cocoa near Winneba
Winneba
Winneba, traditionally known as Simpa, also known as the Land of the Gharteys because its royals and many of its inhabitants bear this name,...
, 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
Ganges River
The Ganges or Ganga, , is a trans-boundary river of India and Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. By discharge it...
riverbed near Patna
Patna
Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
, India, killing 20 and injuring 12. 13 May – Three buses collide in Rivers State
Rivers State
Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Port Harcourt. It is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean, to the North by Imo, Abia and Anambra States, to the East by Akwa Ibom State and to the West by Bayelsa and Delta states...
, 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
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...
, India, killing at least 30 people. 18 May – Two buses collide on a highway between Zulia State and Lara State in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, killing 17 and injuring 20. 20 May – A three-wheeled tractor with a cargo trailer overturns on a mountain road in Liaoning
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...
, China, killing 20 women. 23 May – A bus travelling from Mosul
Mosul
Mosul , is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of the Ninawa Governorate, some northwest of Baghdad. The original city stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial...
, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
overturns on a highway in Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, 250 miles north of Damascus
Damascus
Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...
, killing 14 and injuring 20. 18 June – A truck hits a bus on a highway between Halle
Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
Halle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia...
and Magdeburg
Magdeburg
Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
, 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
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads measuring about in total length. Except for an rainforest break, called the Darién Gap, the road links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system. According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world's...
in northern Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, killing 24. July 2 – 19 are killed and 25 injured when a Solan
Solan
Solan is a town and a municipal council in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is located south of state capital Shimla. The place is named after the Hindu goddess Shoolini devi. Solan was the capital of erstwhile princely state, Bhagat...
-bound bus rolls off 300 meters into a ravine near Shimla
Shimla
Shimla , formerly known as Simla, is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of the British Raj in India. A popular tourist destination, Shimla is often referred to as the "Queen of Hills," a term coined by the British...
, India. July 3 – Two buses collide in the Sinai Peninsula
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt about in area. It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between two...
, Egypt, killing 12 and injuring a further 58. July 4 – A landslide buries a bus near Eloxochitlan in the Mexican state of Puebla
Puebla
Puebla officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 217 municipalities and its capital city is Puebla....
. 32 bodies are recovered before the search is ended. July 13 – A tour bus traveling from Lhasa
Lhasa
Lhasa is the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining. At an altitude of , Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world...
to Shigatse
Shigatse
Shigatse is a county-level city and the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region , People's Republic of China, with a population of 92000, about southwest of Lhasa and northwest of Gyantse...
plunges into the Yarlung Tsangpo River about 55 miles west of Lhasa
Lhasa
Lhasa is the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining. At an altitude of , Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world...
in Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
, killing 14 and injuring 13. July 22– a Polish bus with pilgrims overturns, plunges and burns in French Alps
Alps
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
in Notre-Dame-de-Mésage, near Vizille
Vizille
Vizille is a commune in the Isère department in south-eastern France.Vizille is home to the Musée de la Révolution Française de Vizille, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the French Revolution, housed since 1984 in the Château de Vizille, a Monument Historique. The library...
, Isère
Isère
Isère is a department in the Rhône-Alpes region in the east of France named after the river Isère.- History :Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Dauphiné...
, France killing 26 and injuring 24. August 1 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge, in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
, collapses during afternoon rush hour, killing 13 and injuring 100. August 7 – According to Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian America Television
America Television
America Television , better known as America TV, is a Peruvian television network affiliated with Televisa of Mexico. It was founded on December 15, 1958 by Antonio Umbert F., Nicanor Gonzalez V., and Avelino Aramburu. The network belongs to the Plural TV group formed by the daily newspapers El...
report, a Nazca
Nazca
Nazca is a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town in the Nazca Province. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 300 BC and AD 800...
–Acarí and another Civa bus service bound for Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
are head-on collision at Panamericana Sur Highway, Acarí, Arequipa
Arequipa
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...
, Peru, killing 14, another 30 are injured. 13 August – 20 passengers were killed in the bus crash
2007 Bukit Gantang bus crash
The 2007 Bukit Gantang bus crash was the worst road accident in Malaysian history. Twenty passengers of the Super Express bus were killed in the accident which took place near Bukit Berapit, Bukit Gantang, Changkat Jering, Perak...
in North-South Expressway near Bukit Gantang
Bukit Gantang
Bukit Gantang is a small town and parliament constituency in Perak, Malaysia.Bukit Gantang is famous for its durian orchard. One of the longest train tunnels in Malaysia could also be found in this hilly area.-See also:...
, Changkat Jering
Changkat Jering
Changkat Jering is a small town in Perak, Malaysia. It is near the larger town of Taiping. It connects Taiping to the North-South Expressway via the southern exit. Changkat Jering is famed for its big weekly evening market on Saturdays. Changkat Jering is situated within the parliamentary...
, Perak
Perak
Perak , one of the 13 states of Malaysia, is the second largest state in the Peninsular Malaysia bordering Kedah and Yala Province of Thailand to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, Selangor the Strait of Malacca to the south and west.Perak means silver in Malay...
. August 20 – According Pakistani newspaper Daily Jang
Daily Jang
The Daily Jang is an Urdu newspaper based in Pakistan. It is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan in continuous publication since its foundation in 1939. Its current Group Chief Executive & Editor-in-Chief is Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman....
report, a bus veered off a mountain road, and crashed into a Neelum Valley, Ghori
Ghori
Ghori also refers to a resident of Ghor Province in Afghanistan----Ghori is a small town in Pakistani Controlled Azad Kashmir, located at 34°27'0N, 73°30'0E . It lies near to the epicentre of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake....
, Azad Kashimir, Pakistan, killing 25, another injuring are eight. 26 August – A truck carrying UPDF
Uganda People's Defence Force
The Uganda Peoples Defence Force , previously the National Resistance Army, is the armed forces of Uganda. The International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates the UPDF has a total strength of 40–45,000, and consists of land forces and an Air Wing.The IISS Military Balance 2007 says there...
soldiers and their family crashes and overturns near Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale.- Physical features :It is the oldest and largest solitary volcano in East Africa, covering an area of around 3500 km²....
, in Eastern Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
, killing 72 people, including 57 soldiers, and injuring a further forty. 8 September – Over half of the 150 passengers aboard a pilgrimage bus are killed when it crashes into a gorge in Nagbavji
Nagbavji
Nagbavji is an Indian village. It lies about south-west of India's capital, Delhi....
, India. 8 September – Two different bush crashes and fires claim a total of 48 lives in northern Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
. 9 September – A tractor-trailer carrying ammonium nitrate overturn and catches fire near Monclova, Mexico. The subsequent explosions kills over thirty people and injures over 150. September 16 – According to Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
of Mexico report, a Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican balneario resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas.The 2010 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 255,725 making it the sixth-largest city in the state of Jalisco...
–Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
Vallarta Plus regular route bus ran off a mountain road where plunged a ravine at outskirt of Compostela, Nayarit
Compostela, Nayarit
Compostela is the name of both a municipality and the town within that municipality that serves as the seat. They are in the Mexican state of Nayarit. The population of the municipality was 62,925 in a total area of 1,848 km²...
, Mexico, killing 17, another 13 are injured. October 7 – A bus and train collide in Granma Province
Granma Province
Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Bayamo. Other towns include Manzanillo and Pilón.-History:...
, Cuba, killing 28. October 11 – According to Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...
television of Brazil report, a Chapeco
Chapecó
Chapecó is a major city in the western area of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, located 630 km west of Florianópolis, the capital of the state....
–São José do Cedro
São José do Cedro
São José do Cedro is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
regular route bus has collided with a truck, while trying to pass another vehicle on a curve, which happened a truck lost control and hitting several emagency and rescue workers at outskirt of Descanso
Descanso, Santa Catarina
Descanso, Santa Catarina is a town and municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.-References:...
, Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island. Neighbouring states are Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bounded on the east by...
, Brazil, killing 28 and injuring 90. November 4 – Baku–Gazakh motorway minibus crash: a minibus, carrying twenty persons, slammed into a parked truck, laden with stones; 14 died, 4 injured. November 16 – According to Lusa news agency and RTP
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
television report, a bus collided with a car and bus flipped over with tumbled down at outskirt of Fatima
Fátima, Portugal
Fátima is a city in Portugal famous for the Marian apparitions, recognized by the Catholic Church, that took place there in 1917. The town itself has a population of 7,756 and is located in the municipality of Ourém, in the Centro Region and Médio Tejo Subregion...
, Ourem
Ourém
Ourém is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 416.6 km² and a total population of 49,269 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of about 12,000.The municipality is composed of 18 parishes, and is located in the district of Santarém...
, Portugal, killing 13, another 24 are injured. November 19 – According to Nigerian police official report, an Enugu-Port Harcourt regular route bus rammed into oncoming truck at Ogida, Enugu
Enugu
Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in the southeastern area of Nigeria and is largely populated by members of the Igbo ethnic group. The city has a population of 722,664 according to the 2006 Nigerian census. The name Enugu is derived from the two Igbo words Enu Ugwu...
, Nigeria, killing 21, another injuring are 10. November 24 – According to Xinhua and CCTV
China Central Television
China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
of China report, a Linchuan Linda bus travelling from Shanghai plunged by landslide at outskirt of Badong
Badong
Badong County is a county located in the extreme west of central China's Hubei province, in Enshi Prefecture. The Yangtze River flows through the county and the county seat is located just east of the Wu Gorge in the Three Gorges region....
, Hubei
Hubei
' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...
, China, killing 31. December 14 – According to United News of India
United News of India
United News of India is one of the two primary Indian news agencies. It works in collaboration with several foreign news agencies and partners, including Reuters and DPA....
report, a Ludhiana–Ferozepur Satluj Express collided with a bus carrying local college students and teachers at crossing of Moga
Moga, Punjab
Moga is a city and a municipality in Moga district in the Indian state of Punjab.It became part and headquarter of 17th District in the state, Moga district of Punjab State on 24th day of November 1995, by then Chief Minister Harcharan Singh Brar. Before this, Moga was a part of Faridkot District...
, Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
of India, killing 17, another 18 are injured. December 31 – According to Egyptian Television report, a regular route bus collided with a truck and flipped into an irrigation canal at outskirt of Dayrat, Asyut
Asyut
Asyut is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt; the ancient city of the same name is situated nearby. The modern city is located at , while the ancient city is at .- Etymology :...
, Egypt, killing 19, another injuring are 40.
2008
9 January – A 70-vehicle pileup, which killed four persons, and injured 38, occurred on Interstate 4Interstate 4
Interstate 4 is a intrastate Highway located entirely within the state of Florida, United States. It goes from Interstate 275 in Tampa, Florida to Interstate 95 at Daytona Beach, Florida . It also has the Florida Department of Transportation designation of State Road 400, but only a small...
south of Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
. A mix of fog and thick smoke from a nearby environmental burn caused near-zero visibility and is to blame for the accident. 12 January – A basketball team van returning to Bathurst, New Brunswick
Bathurst, New Brunswick
Bathurst is a Canadian city in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.Bathurst is situated on Bathurst Harbour, an estuary at the mouth of the Nepisiguit River at the southernmost part of Chaleur Bay....
from a game in Moncton collided with a transport truck killing 7 team members and the coach's wife. January 18 – According to Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n police official report, a regular route bus ran off the road and plunged into a 600-feet deep ravine at outskirt of Manco Kapac, La Paz
La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country after Santa Cruz de la Sierra...
, Bolivia, killing 13, another 22 are injured. 20 January – A bus carrying Hindu religious pilgrimage plunges into a gorge at Nashik, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, India, killing 39 people and injuring another 40. 20 January – A regular bus bound for Mon State
Mon State
Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Region on the north and Tanintharyi Region on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area is...
skids off the road and flips over at outskirt of Kyaik Hto, Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, killing at least 27, injuring another 10. January 26 – A bus carrying Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
ian tourist collides with a tank truck and overturns into a valley at Jerash
Jerash
Jerash, the Gerasa of Antiquity, is the capital and largest city of Jerash Governorate , which is situated in the north of Jordan, north of the capital Amman towards Syria...
, Jordan, killing at least 21, injuring at least 30. January 29 – A regular route Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
–Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...
bus skidded off an icy road packed with snow and fell into a valley at the 98.9 kilometer point of the Guiyang
Guiyang
Guiyang is the capital of Guizhou province of Southwest China. It is located in the centre of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, and on the north bank of the Nanming River, a branch of the Wu River. The city has an elevation of about 1,100 meters...
–Zhunyi expressway, on the outskirts of Zhunyi, Guizhou
Guizhou
' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...
, China, killing 25, another 13 are injured. January 31 – According to media and government of Zimbabwe are confirmed report, a Mhunga bus service bound for Renco
Renco
Renco is a village in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe and is located 70 km from Masvingo. The village grew up around the Renco gold mine. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 3,817....
with 75 passengers on board, where left side road and crush into a tree Masvingo-Nemanwa road, Masvingo
Masvingo
Masvingo is a town in south-eastern Zimbabwe and the capital of Masvingo Province. The town is close to Great Zimbabwe, the national monument from which the country takes its name.- History :...
, Zimbabwe, 14 people are killed, another 55 are injured. February 5 – A truck carrying many Hindu pilgrims hit a wall by a roadside, where lost control of the vehicle with overturned at Hathras
Hathras
Hathras is a city and a municipal board in Mahamaya Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the district that was created on 3 May 1997 by incorporating parts of Aligarh, Mathura and Agra districts. It forms a part of Aligarh Division...
, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, killing 12, another 20 are injured. February 12 – According to China Daily report, a Chishui-Zunyi
Zunyi
Zunyi is a prefecture-level city in Guizhou province in southwestern China. Along with Guiyang and Liupanshui, it is one of the most important cities of the province...
regular route bus veered off highway and plunged into 150-feet high cliff at outskirt of Chishui City
Chishui City
Chishui is a city of Guizhou Province, China. It is under the administration of Zunyi city.-Geography:The city has a total area of 1,801 km².-Population:As of 2007, the city had a population of 300,000....
, Guizhou
Guizhou
' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern part of the country. Its provincial capital city is Guiyang.- History :...
, China, killing 21, another 14 are injured. February 17 – According to Associated Press of Pakistan
Associated Press of Pakistan
Associated Press of Pakistan is a government-operated national news agency of Pakistan. It is not associated with the Associated Press agency .-Lack of financial resources:...
report, a Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
–Dera Ghazi Khan
Dera Ghazi Khan
Dera Ghazi Khan is a city located in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. Dera Ghazi Khan is one of the most populous cities in Southern Punjab, and it is the largest district in Punjab in terms of area, being approximately in extent....
local regular bus veer off a bend in the bridge and plunged onto another road below at outskirt of Aialkot, Punjab of Pakistan, killing 14, another 31 are injured. February 17 – According to GEO Television of Pakistan report, a Lahore-Multan
Multan
Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...
passenger bus carrying over 60 people on board has caught fire after going off a bridge at outskirt of Pattoki
Pattoki
Pattoki is a town in the Kasur District of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the headquarters of Pattoki Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of the district, and is located at 31°1'0N 73°50'60E with an altitude of 186 metres ....
, Bunjab of Pakistan, killing 40 and injuring 22. February 18 – According to a Chinese
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
news agency Xinhua report, a regular route bus ran into the rear of a tank truck, triggering a fire and explosion which ignited other vehicles, at the 471 kilometer point of the Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
–Zhuhai
Zhuhai
Zhuhai is a prefecture-level city on the southern coast of Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in the Pearl River Delta, Zhuhai borders Jiangmen to the northwest, Zhongshan to the north, and Macau to the south. Zhuhai was one of the original Special Economic Zones...
expressway, on the outskirts of Chenzhou
Chenzhou
Chenzhou is a city located in the southern area of Hunan province, People's Republic of China. Its administrative area covers , 9.2% of the provincial area, and its total population reached 4,559,600 as of 2001, 26% of them living in urban areas, 74% of them live in rural areas.-History:Chenzhou...
, Hebei
Hebei
' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...
, China, killing 15, another 25 are injured. February 21 – A bus travelling from Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong ) is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...
, where hit a pole carrying power line and caught fire at Cox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar is a town, a fishing port and district headquarters in Bangladesh. It is known for its wide sandy beach which is the world's longest natural sandy sea beach. It is an unbroken 125 km sandy sea beach with a gentle slope. It is located 150 km south of Chittagong. Cox’s Bazar...
, Bangladesh, killing at least 16, another 20 are injured. February 23 – According to Saudi news angency Saudi Press Agency
Saudi Press Agency
The Saudi press agency ' was established in 1971 as the first national news agency. The main goal of its establishment was to serve as a central body to collect and distribute local and international news in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad....
report, Saudi Public Transport (SAPTCO) regular route bus overturned by faulty brakes at outskirt of Abha
Abha
Abha is the capital of Asir province in Saudi Arabia. It is situated at 2,200 metres above sea level in the fertile mountains of south-western Saudi Arabia near the National Park of Asir. Its mild climate makes it a popular tourist destination for Saudis...
, Asir, Saudi Arabia, killing at least 25, another 8 are injured. February 24 – A local bus veered off the road with plunged into a pond at outskirt of Sonapur, Assam
Assam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
, India, killing at least 18, another one injured. March 1 – An overcrowded local bus with 70 passengers on board, where a bus driver tried to brake by downshifting, aftermath, a bus plunged off the highway and rolled down a fifty-foot slope, with slid about 200-yard down the highway at Cuilapa
Cuilapa
Cuilapa, also known as Santa Rosa Cuilapa, is a town in Guatemala. It serves as the capital of the department of Santa Rosa and as the administrative seat for the surrounding municipality of Cuilapa.Cuilapa marks the midpoint of the American Continent....
, Guatemala, killing 53, another 17 are injured. March 5 – According to Indian police report, a truck carrying Hindu pilgrims has overturned and lost control of another truck while negotiating a sharp turn at Hathras
Hathras
Hathras is a city and a municipal board in Mahamaya Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the district that was created on 3 May 1997 by incorporating parts of Aligarh, Mathura and Agra districts. It forms a part of Aligarh Division...
, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, killing 11, another 20 are injured. March 9 – A Mar de Ajó–Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
regular route bus disregards the National Highway Route 2's crossing signal, when a Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
–Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...
nightly express train hit the bus at El Rapido Argentine line on the outskirts of Dolores
Dolores, Buenos Aires
Dolores is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Dolores Partido.The town settlement was officially founded by Ramón Lara on August 21, 1817.-2008 March train disaster:...
, state of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Province
The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...
, Argentina, killing at least 26, another 60 injured. March 12 – A series of accidents occurred, 200 vehicles crashed and went up in flames at E 11 highway of Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
, UAE, 7 killed and 200 injured. It is considering to be one of the worst road accidents in the country. March 14 – According to Syrian Arab News Agency
Syrian Arab News Agency
The Syrian Arab News Agency is a news agency in Syria. It is a state media organisation linked to the Ministry of Information. It was established in 1965....
report, a Idlib
Idlib
Idlib is a city in northwestern Syria, capital of the Idlib Governorate. The city of Aleppo, which is roughly 60 km away, has an important economic presence in Idlib. The area around Idlib is very fertile, producing cotton, cereals, olives, figs, grapes, tomatoes, sesame seeds, wheat and almonds....
–Tartus regular route bus was crushed by overturning and hitting a house on the outskirts of Tartus, southwestern Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, killing 23, another 31 are injured. In an incident caused by exceeding speed. March 14 – According to Bangladeshi police and Channel 1 television report, a bus carrying a wedding couples and families collided head-on with truck before plunging into a ditch at outskirt of Goumadi, Barisal, Bangladesh, killing 12, another 11 are injured. March 15 – According to Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian news agency IRNA report, a bus carrying 22 university students collided with truck, both vehicles caught fire immediately after the crash between Andimeshk
Andimeshk
Andimeshk is a city in and the capital of Andimeshk County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 119,422, in 26,140 families....
of Khuzestan and Pol-e-Dokhtar
Pol-e-Dokhtar
Pol-e Dokhtar is a city in and capital of Pol-e Dokhtar County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 22,558, in 5,131 families.Pol-e-Dokhtar is approximately 100 kilometres from Khorramabad, the provincial capital...
of Lorestan, Iran, killing 22, another 7 are injured. March 16 – According to Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian Panamericana Television
Panamericana Televisión
Panamericana Televisión, Panamericana Television or Pantel is a Peruvian television network founded in 1959 when television first arrived in Peru. It initially broadcast on Channel 13, but later moved to Channel 5 in metropolitan Lima. This network was followed by a second private television...
report, two passenger buses head-on collided and one of the vehicles drove out at Chimbote
Chimbote
Chimbote is the largest city in the Ancash Region of Peru, and the capital of both Santa Province and Chimbote District.The city is located on the coast in Chimbote Bay, south of Trujillo and north of Lima on the North Pan-American highway. It is the start of a chain of important cities like...
, Ancash, Peru, killing 14, another 35 are injured. March 25 – A major motorway pileup in Austria involving at least 60 vehicles occurred near Seewalchen
Seewalchen am Attersee
Seewalchen am Attersee is a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria, Austria....
causing 1 death and 30 injuries. March 25 – A regular route bus plunged off a side of highway and rolled 500-yards down a hillside at Ocotepeque
Ocotepeque
Ocotepeque is a town and municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque.Located 15 miles from the Honduran–Salvadoran border as well as the Honduran–Guatemalan border, Ocotepeque is one of the first municipalities encountered when traveling between the countries...
, Honduras, killing 26, another 19 are injured. March 27 – According to Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
Uganda Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster of Uganda. It was founded as a result of the "Uganda Broadcasting Corporation Act, 2004", which merged the operations of Uganda Television and Radio Uganda...
report, a bus overturned and caught fire, when bus escaping overtake a trailer at outskirt of Kingo, Masaka
Masaka
Masaka is a town in Central Uganda, lying west of Lake Victoria. It is the chief town of Masaka District. Besides being the headquarters of Masaka District, the town is the regional headquarters and largest metropolitan area in Lyantonde District, Sembabule District, Lwengo District, Bukomansimbi...
, Uganda, killing 40. March 28 – According to Xinhua of China report, a Shenzhen
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...
–Chongqing
Chongqing
Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...
regular route bus smashed into a minivan overtaking and then plunged into a river at expressway, Tankou, Sangzhi, Hunan
Hunan
' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...
, China, killing 13. April 3 – According to South African SAPA news agency report, a bus bound for Maputo
Maputo
Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...
carrying mine workers of Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
, left the road, and burst into flames with collided a tree at outskirt of Komatipoort
Komatipoort
Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger Park, and just 5km from the Mozambique border and 65km from the Swazi border. It is a small, quiet town with some...
, Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga , is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area...
, South Africa, killing 17. April 4 – According to Indian police and Zee News
Zee News
Zee News, the news and current affairs channel, is the oldest channel of Zee News Ltd, founded in 1992. It was the first 24-hour Hindi current affairs and news channel in India. In spite of being the only pay channel in its genre, it maintains its position among the top three Hindi news channels in...
television report, an overcrowded Babughat–Narayanpur
Narayanpur
Narayanpur is a town located in Lakhimpur district of the north eastern Indian state Assam. It falls under Bihpuria constituency of Assam Legislative Assembly and under Narayanpur Police Station. Narayanpur is also the name of the development block....
charter bus skidded off the road and plunged into a canal at Kestopur
Kestopur
Kestopur, officially known as Krishnapur, lies on Kazi Nazrul Islam Sarani, more commonly known as VIP Road, Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, India, and is covered under Rajarhat Gopalpur Municipality. Keshtopur square is along the way from Ultadanga to the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose...
, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
West Bengal
West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
, India, killing 20, another 35 are injured. April 12 – According to Jamahiriya Arab News Agency of Libya report, a traveller bus collided with a car, and veered off the road and then plunged into river at outskirt of Mizda, Libya, killing 36, another nine are injured. April 12 – A bus carrying British tourists collided with a truck near Jipijapa killing five and injuring a further 12. April 16 – According to Indian NDTV
NDTV
NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...
report, a bus carrying 60 school children from Bodeli
Bodeli
Bodeli is a small census town in Vadodara district in the eastern part of the state of Gujarat, India.-Demographics:At the time of the 2001 India census, Bodeli had a population of 10,494. Males constituted 52% of the population and females 48%...
, has overtake a track and lost control, after plunged into Narmada River
Narmada River
The Narmada , also called Rewa is a river in central India and the fifth largest river in the Indian subcontinent. It is the third largest river that completely flows within India after Ganges and Godavari...
, outskirt of Vadodara
Vadodara
Vadodara formerly known as Baroda is the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat . It is one of the four cities with the population of over 1 million...
, Gujarat, India, in an incident caused by bus driver has exceed speed, killing 47 people. April 19 – According to Bangladeshi police and Bangladesh Television
Bangladesh Television
Bangladesh Television , also known by the acronym BTV, is the state-owned Television network in Bangladesh. It started broadcasting as Pakistan Television in what was then East Pakistan on 25 December 1964. It was renamed Bangladesh Television after the independence in 1971. Broadcasts in full...
report, a Kurigram–Dhaka
Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
bus carrying workers has overturned and plunge off Jamuna bridge at Tangail
Tangail
Tangail is a town in Tangail District located in central region of Bangladesh. It consists of 5 corporations, 8 municipalities, 72 wards, 211 mahallas. It is located on the banks of Louhajang River, and is part of the Dhaka Division.-Education:...
, Bangladesh, killing 18, another 35 are injured. April 19 – A bus carrying Finnish
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
tourists collided with a 4X4 and overturned on highway near the coastal resort of Benalmadena killing 9 and injuring 19. April 20 – According to Indian police official report, a passenger bus skidded off a road and plunged 370-feet into a deepgorge at outskirt of Battery Cheshma, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing 13, another 28 are injured. April 23 – According to Indian police official report, an overcrowded mini-van carrying wedding couple and family collided with a truck at outskirt of , Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India, killing 24. May 1 – According to Hong Kong TV ATV and TVB report, a bus carrying elderly to a local religious ceremony has overturned and smashed into a barrior at Sai Kung, Hong Kong, killing 17, another injuring are 45. May 1 – According to Bolivian police official report, two minivan carrying Israeli and Japanese passengers head on collide and caught fire at outskirt of Uyuni
Uyuni
Uyuni is a city in the southwest of Bolivia. It primarily serves as a gateway for tourists visiting the world's largest salt flats, the nearby Salar de Uyuni.-Origin:...
, Potosi
Potosí
Potosí is a city and the capital of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world by elevation at a nominal . and it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint, now the National Mint of Bolivia...
, Bolivia, killing 13. May 4 – According to Indian police official report, an overcrowded jeep carrying wedding couple and family crashed into truck at outskit of Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, India, killing 16. May 7 – According to America Television
America Television
America Television , better known as America TV, is a Peruvian television network affiliated with Televisa of Mexico. It was founded on December 15, 1958 by Antonio Umbert F., Nicanor Gonzalez V., and Avelino Aramburu. The network belongs to the Plural TV group formed by the daily newspapers El...
of Peru report, a Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
–Yauyos
Yauyos
Yauyos is a town in Central Peru, capital of the province Yauyos in the region Lima. The city is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Yauyos....
regular route bus went off a mountain road, and plunged into 330-feet below of Canete River at outskirt of Yauyos
Yauyos
Yauyos is a town in Central Peru, capital of the province Yauyos in the region Lima. The city is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Yauyos....
, Peru, killing 29, another injuring are 15. May 8 – Belgian footballer François Sterchele
François Sterchele
François Sterchele was a Belgian footballer who played for Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006-07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on May 8, 2008.-Club career:...
was killed instantly when he crashed his Porsche Cayman S into a tree. May 8 – According to Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
i police official report, a bus skidded off a mountain road while negotiating a sharp bend and plunged into 370-feet below the Chenab River
Chenab River
The Chenab River چنRiver' آب) is a major river of Jammu and Kashmir and the Punjab in Pakistan. It forms in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, and flows through the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir into the plains of the Punjab, Pakistan...
, outskirt of Kishtwar
Kishtwar
Kishtwar is a town and a notified area committee in Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of India.-Geography:Kishtwar is located at...
, Indian-Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
, killing 44. May 9 – According to Tanzanian police official report, a bus carrying Catholic Nuns and a truck collided at Morogoro
Morogoro
Morogoro is a city with an urban population of 206,868 in the southern highlands of Tanzania, 190 km west of Dar es Salaam. It is the capital of the Morogoro Region...
–Dodoma
Dodoma
Dodoma , officially Dodoma Urban District, population 324,347 , is the national capital of Tanzania, and the capital of the Dodoma region. In 1973, plans were made to move the capital to Dodoma...
road, outskirtof Dodoma, Tanzania, killing 15. May 9 – According to Tanzanian police official report, a trailer hit a local passenger bus where tried to avoid a smash up with an oncoming vehicle at outskirtof Dodoma, Tanzania, killing 12, another injuring are 29. May 17 – According to Hangzhou Television and Zhejiang Television report, an involving tractor collided by a mini bus and car, where a tractor was blocked and stopped by two vehicles, and exploded at Yongzhong, Longwan, Wenzhou
Wenzhou
Wenzhou is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. The area under its jurisdiction, which includes two satellite cities and six counties, had a population of 9,122,100 as of 2010....
, Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...
, China, killing 16, another injuring are 29. May 19 – According to portal site of Nepal news report, an overcrowded regular route –Swagadwari Dang bus skidded off the mountain road, and plunged 500-feet below into Rapti River, Bagasati, Dang, Nepal, killing 46, another injuring are 28. May 19 – According to TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
of Mexico report, an Estrella Blanca regular route bus plummeted 200-feet off a mountain highway at outskirt of Metzquitilan, Hidalgo, Mexico, killing 28, and many passengers and a driver has injured. May 21 – According to Press Trust of India
Press Trust of India
Press Trust of India is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers and has a staff of about 2,000 writers spread across 150 offices nationwide...
report, a Pithoragarh
Pithoragarh
Pithoragarh, is a city with a Municipal Board in the Pithoragarh district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, was carved out of district of Almora in 1962.-Geography:...
–Bageshwar
Bageshwar
Bageshwar is a city and a municipal board in Bageshwar district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is also the administrative headquarters of Bageshwar district....
regular route bus veer off a road and plunged into the ditch where 300-feet below at outskirt of Chordhuroli, Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand , formerly Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the Land of Gods due to the many holy Hindu temples and cities found throughout the state, some of which are among Hinduism's most spiritual and auspicious places of pilgrimage and worship...
, India, in an incident caused by mechanical fault, killing 21, another injuring are nine. May 23 – According to Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian newspaper Etemaad
Etemaad
Etemaad is the biggest-circulation reformist newspaper in Iran that publishes in Tehran. It is managed by Elias Hazrati, who was representative from Rasht and Tehran in the Parliament of Iran. Etemaad translates to "trust" in Persian....
report, a bus collided with a truck at a mountain road between Hamedan and Malayer
Malayer
Malayer , also Romanized as Dowlatābād and Daūlatābād) is a city in and capital of Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 153,748, in 40,750 families....
, Hamedan, Iran, in an incident caused by truck driver has illegally overcoming and a bus driver has exceed speed, killing 24, another injuring are 11. May 27 – According to South African Broadcasting Corporation
South African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African Broadcasting Corporation is the state-owned broadcaster in South Africa and provides 18 radio stations as well as 3 television broadcasts to the general public.-Early years:Radio broadcasting began in South Africa in 1923...
news report, a Mvenyane–Matatiele regular route bus plunged 450 feet down an embankment in Kaka Pass, where landed upside down in river at Cedarville, Eastern Cape, South Africa, killing 28. June 1 – According to Bolivian police official report, a La Paz
La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country after Santa Cruz de la Sierra...
–Yungas
Yungas
The Yungas is a stretch of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from southeastern Peru through central Bolivia. It is a transitional zone between the Andean highlands and the eastern forests. Like the surrounding areas, it has characteristics of the Neotropic ecozone...
regular route bus plunged 630-feet down a ravine at between Asonta–Chulumari, Bolivia, killing 20 and injuring 15. June 2 – A bus carrying more than 50 schoolchildren was hit by a regional express train on a level crossing in Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie is a French department in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It borders both Switzerland and Italy. The capital is Annecy. To the north is Lake Geneva and Switzerland; to the south and southeast are the Mont Blanc and Aravis mountain ranges and the French entrance to the Mont...
, France. Seven children died and many others were injured. June 3 – According to Shanxi Television report, a Shuozhou transport regular route bus collided with a truck at Yuanyuan, Shuozhou
Shuozhou
Shuozhou is a city in the north of Shanxi Province in North China, located on the upper reaches of the Fen River. As of 2004, its population is approximately 1.25 million, and the city has an area of approximately 5,737 square kilometres. Administratively, Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city, with...
, Shanxi
Shanxi
' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
, China, killing 22 and injuring two. June 3 – According to Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ese newspaper Nhan Dan
Nhân Dân
Nhân Dân is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam. According to the newspaper, it is “the voice of the Party, State and people of Vietnam.”...
and Tuoi Tre
Tuoi Tre
Tuổi Trẻ is a major daily newspaper in Vietnam, publishing in Vietnamese from Hồ Chí Minh City. It was originally a publication of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Organization of Hồ Chí Minh City, and while it is still the official mouthpiece of that organization, it has grown to become the...
report, a Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
–Hanoi
Hanoi
Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...
regular route bus carrying 50 passengers on board head-on collided with a container on the trailer truck at outskirt of Ham Tan
Ham Tan
Ham Tan , is a district of Binh Thuan Province in the Southeast region of Vietnam.As of 2003 the district had a population of 168,717. The district covers an area of 941 km². The district capital lies at La Gi.-References:...
, Binh Thuan, Vietnam, killing fourteen and injuring eighteen. June 9 – According to police official of India report, a passenger bus collided with a jeep at Shahuwadi Kohlapur, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, India, killing 17 and injuring 25. June 9 – According to Indian Embassy of Thimphu
Thimphu
Thimphu also spelt Thimpu, is the capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's dzongkhags, the Thimphu District. The city became the capital of Bhutan in 1961...
report, a truck carrying Indian workers smashed and negotiating a narrow wet condition stretch road while returning from work site at Wangkha, Chukha
Chukha
Chukha District is one of the 20 dzongkhag comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing which is the gateway city along the sole road which connects India to western Bhutan . Chukha is the commercial and the financial capital of Bhutan...
, Bhutan, killing 12. June 15 – According to United News of India
United News of India
United News of India is one of the two primary Indian news agencies. It works in collaboration with several foreign news agencies and partners, including Reuters and DPA....
report, a Bachri–Rampur
Rampur, Himachal Pradesh
Rampur Bushahr is a city and a municipal council in Shimla district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is 130 km from Shimla well connected with National Highway which passes through Narkanda .-History:...
Himachal Pradesh Road Transport bus plunged into a 500-feet deep gorge at Kalchi More, Rampur, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
, India, killing 16 and injuring six. June 16 – According to Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation news report, a NPS bus crashed and lost control by a front tire has bursting at Great East Road, Nyalugwe, Nyimba, Zambia, killing 28 and injuring 52. June 21 – According to Indian police official report, a Rampur-Basheri Himachal Road Transport bus plunged into george, when crowded road in a narrow curve with drivers error at outskirt of Rampur, Himachal Pradesh
Rampur, Himachal Pradesh
Rampur Bushahr is a city and a municipal council in Shimla district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is 130 km from Shimla well connected with National Highway which passes through Narkanda .-History:...
, India, killing 16. June 23 – According to NTV Turkey
NTV Turkey
NTV is a Turkish nationwide television news channel. NTV was founded in 1996 by Turkish businessman Cavit Çağlar as the first news channel of Turkey and has partnered with MSNBC since May 2000. Aired on this channel is usually the news but also provides football games, especially La Liga matches,...
report, a freight train rammed into minibus, which passing level crossing despite warn up at outskirt of Nurdagi
Nurdagi
Nurdağı is a district of Gaziantep Province of Turkey. Nurdağı is 45 km west of Gaziantep. The population is 16,488....
, Gaziantep
Gaziantep
Gaziantep , Ottoman Turkish: Ayintab) previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria...
, Turkey, killing eleven bus passengers. June 25 – According to Nigerian Television Authority
Nigerian Television Authority
The Nigerian Television Authority - also known as NTA - was inaugurated in 1977 and is the government-owned body in charge of television broadcasting in the country. The NTA claims to run the biggest television network in Africa with stations in several parts of Nigeria...
news report, a multipile motors, including Petyex Transport bus, fuel tanker and six vehicles crashed at Ita bridge, Ikot, Akwa Ibom
Akwa Ibom
Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria named after the Qua Iboe river. It is located in the coastal South-Southern part of the country, lying between latitudes 4°321 and 5°331 North, and longitudes 7°251 and 8°251 East...
, Nigeria, killing 25. June 28 – According to Times of India report, a Sakhnikhet–Kotdwar regular route bus plunged into a gorge at outskirt of Bedgaon, Nainital, India, killing thirteen and injuring nine. June 29 – According to Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
of Mexico report, a truck slammed into two Omnibus de la Laguna passenger buses stopped for repair and mechanical failure at 126 kilometers point from US and Mexican border of Pan American Highway, Ojo Laguna, Chihuahua, Mexico, killing seventeen and injuring fifteen. July 1 – According to Reuters, AP, AFP, IRNA news, a bus overturned on a highway at between Teheran–Qom
Qom
Qom is a city in Iran. It lies by road southwest of Tehran and is the capital of Qom Province. At the 2006 census, its population was 957,496, in 241,827 families. It is situated on the banks of the Qom River....
, Ray Country, Iran, killing 25 and seriously injured 16. July 3 – According to Doordarshan
DoorDarshan
Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...
television of India report, a Haldwani-Kashipur regular route bus carrying 48 passengers rammed into a tree, when a front tyre of a vehicle burst at Gadappu, Nainital, India, killing nineteen and injuring 29. July 4 – According to Interior Minister and civil protection agency of El Salvador report, a bus carrying a local evangelical church members hit by heavy massivie rain with flood, where plunged into Acelhuate River, San Marcos
San Marcos, El Salvador
San Marcos, a city of El Salvador. It is located on a small valley, 5 miles southern San Salvador downtown. Its population is 63,209 inhabitants...
, San Salvador
San Salvador
The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...
, El Salvador, killing 31. July 5 – According to News Agency of Nigeria report, a bus carrying conveying pupils head on collided with another vehicle at between Benin City
Benin City
Benin City, is a city and the capital of Edo State in southern Nigeria. It is a city approximately twenty-five miles north of the Benin River. It is situated 200 miles by road east of Lagos...
–Asaba
Asaba, Nigeria
Asaba is the capital of Nigeria's Delta State, and has an estimated population of 149,603 .- Etymology :Ahaba in Igbo is from 'Ahabagom', meaning I have chosen well, a quote from the founding father of Asaba.- Geography :...
expressway, Nigeria, killing eighteen, including twelve children. July 7 – According to Bangla Vision television teport, a Chittagong-Dhaka
Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
regular route bus lost control and crashed into another bus in the opposite direction, where plunged into a 200 feet (61 m) road side ditch at outskirt of Comilla
Comilla
Comilla is a city in south-eastern Bangladesh, located along the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. It is the administrative center of the Comilla District, part of the Chittagong Division. The Eastern Wing of Bangladesh Highway Police is located in Comilla....
, near Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong ) is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...
, Bangladesh, killing twenty and injuring forty. July 8 – According to Bolivision
Bolivisión
Bolivisión is a commercial Bolivian television station based in Santa Cruz. The channel was launched on June 17, 1997.- External links :**...
report, a truck loaded with sixty passengers and many goods plunged 650 feet down a cliff at outskirt of Potosi
Potosí
Potosí is a city and the capital of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. It is one of the highest cities in the world by elevation at a nominal . and it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint, now the National Mint of Bolivia...
, Bolivia, killing 47 and injuring ten. July 9 – According to Indian police official report, an overcrowded –Ranchi
Ranchi
-Climate:Ranchi has a humid subtropical climate. However, due to its position and the forests around the city, it is known for its pleasant climate. Its climate is the primary reason why Ranchi was once the summer capital of the undivided State of Bihar...
regular route bus collided with a truck and plunged into the Chutupala Valley, Netarhat
Netarhat
Netarhat is a town in Latehar district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.Referred to as the “Queen of Chotanagpur”, it is a popular hill station. -Geography:Netarhat is located at , at a height of ....
, Jharkhand
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...
, India, killing twenty and injuring thirty. July 11 – According to SBT television of Brazil report, a Porto Velho
Porto Velho
Porto Velho is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in the upper Amazon River basin. The population is estimated to be 426,558 people...
–Roraima
Roraima
Roraima is the northernmost and least populated state of Brazil, located in the Amazon region. It borders the states of Amazonas and Pará, as well as the nations of Venezuela and Guyana. The population is 400,000 and the capital is Boa Vista...
of Brazilia regular route bus carrying 36 passengers head-on collide with trailer truck with gasoline, both vehicles caught fire at BR-364 expressway, Ouro Preto do Oeste
Ouro Preto do Oeste
Ouro Preto do Oeste is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Its population was 40,757 and its area is 1,970 km²....
, Rondônia
Rondônia
Rondônia is a state in Brazil, located in the north-western part of the country. To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, and in the south is Bolivia. Its capital is Porto Velho. The state was named after Candido Rondon...
, Brazil, killing 22 people. July 12 – According to Peruvian police official report, a Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
–Tarapoto
Tarapoto
Tarapoto, known as the "City of Palms", is a thriving commercial hub in northern Peru, an hour by plane from Lima, situated in the San Martín Province of the San Martín Region, located in the high jungle plateau to the east of what is known as the selva baja...
Civa transport bus skidded off the highway, after theb driver swerved to avoid hitting on-coming trailer truck at outskirt of Vichaycocha, Huaral
Huaral
Huaral is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Huaral in the region Lima.-References:...
, Peru, killing 14 and injuring 10. July 18 – According to nepalnews of portal site report, a bus carrying fifty passengers veered off a mountain with plunged into Trishuli River, Narayangadh-Mugling expressway, Chandi Bhanjyang, Chitwan, Nepal, killing sixteen and injuring twenty-nine. July 20 – According to Indian NDTV report, a truck collided head on with a private mini bus at Etah-Kasganj Expressway, outskirt of Etah
Etah
Etah is a town which is also the district headquarters of Etah district of Uttar Pradesh state, India.-Geography:Etah is located at . It has an average elevation of 170 metres ....
, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
, India, at least sixteen dead. July 21 – According to Peruvian TV Peru report, a Soyuz Transport bus carrying Hermanos Flores Group head collided with a Huaral
Huaral
Huaral is a town in central Peru, capital of the province Huaral in the region Lima.-References:...
–Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
regular route bus at Pasamayo, Huaral, Peru, Soyuz bus crossed into a lane of oncoming traffic in an attempt to pass another vehicle, at least 25 dead and injuring sixty. July 22 – According to Colombian RCN television report, a Puerto Asis
Puerto Asís
Puerto Asís is a Colombian municipality in the department of the Putumayo. It is located on the west bank of the Putumayo river, downstream from the mouth of the Guamúez River, 75 km by road to the south of Mocoa...
–Pasto
Pasto
Pasto, officially San Juan de Pasto, is the capital of the department of Nariño, located in southwest Colombia. The city is located in the "Atriz Valley", on the Andes cordillera, at the foot of the Galeras volcano, at an altitude of 8,290 feet above sea level...
regular route bus cassying fifty passengers plunged into a 1600 feet (487.7 m) ravine at outskirt of Mocoa
Mocoa
Mocoa is a municipality and capital city of the department of Putumayo in Colombia.The city is located in the northwest of the Putumayo department. The municipality borders the departments of Nariño to the west and Cauca to the north.-External links:...
, Putamayo, Colombia, at least twenty-three dead and injuring twenty-one. July 23 – According to Indian Khaleej Times report, a Jammu-Srinagar regular route bus crushed by lost control at Banihal Pass, Sher-Bibi, Jammu and Kashimir, India, killing seventeen and injuring thirty-five. July 29 – According to Philippine National Police
Philippine National Police
The Philippine National Police is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. It is both a national and a local police force in that it does provides all law enforcement services throughout the Philippines...
official and an ABS-CBN television report, a packed commuter bus strayed into an oncoming lane, and crashed head-on collide with another bus at Pamplona
Pamplona
Pamplona is the historial capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions...
, Camarines Sur
Camarines Sur
Camarines Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon. Its capital is Pili and the province borders Camarines Norte and Quezon to the north, and Albay to the south...
, Philippines, at least eleven dead and injuring twenty-nine. July 31 – According to Indian Police Service
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service , simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India...
and Times of India report, a bus carrying Nepalease pilgrims plunged into Alkananda River with killing at least thirty-six and injuring eleven at Panauti, Kaverepalanchowk, Uttarakhanda, India. August 2 – According to Indian Police Service
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service , simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India...
and NDTV report, an overloaded truck with 125 farm laborers plunged into a small river and killing at least sixty at Khagaria, Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....
, India. August 3 – At least nineteen people killed and injuring many passengers, a bus and a truck collision, and bus driver swerved to the left, when the driver dosed off behind the wheel at Sirjan-Bandar Abbas
Bandar Abbas
Bandar-Abbas or Bandar-e ‘Abbās , also Romanized as Bandar ‘Abbās, Bandar ‘Abbāsī, and Bandar-e ‘Abbās; formerly known as Cambarão and Port Comorão to Portuguese traders, as Gombroon to English traders and as Gamrun or Gumrun to Dutch merchants) is a port city and capital of Hormozgān Province on...
road, outskirt of Sirjan
Sirjan
Sirjan is a city in and the capital of Sirjan County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 167,014, in 40,605 families....
, Kerman Province, Iran. August 8 – Sherman, Texas
Sherman, Texas
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 38,407. It is also one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
- according to Sherman Police Department official report, an illegally operated charter bus carrying fifty-five people of Vietnamese-American Catholic, Marian Pays group skidded off at Dallas-Oklahoma Highway 75, at least seventeen passenger died and injuring more than forty. Sherman, Texas bus accident
Sherman, Texas bus accident
A bus chartered by Vietnamese pilgrims crashed in Texas on Friday 8 August 2008, killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens more, police said...
. August 15 – At least fifteen children died, a bus with forty people, including thirty-two children of Baami School has lost control and plunged into Phalguni River in Ulaibitta village, Mangalore
Mangalore
Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...
, Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
, India. August 15 – At least twenty-nine died, two passenger buses, mostly Italian and Dominica
Dominica
Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
n and collied with two pickup trucka at La Romana, La Altagracia
La Altagracia
La Altagracia is the easternmost province of the Dominican Republic. Punta Cana is located on the eastern shores of this province.-History:...
, Dominican Republic. August 16 – At least fifteen died and injuring twenty, a bus plunged off mountain road into 260-meter deep ravine at Mianchi Country, Henan Province, China. August 18 – At least fifty died, a bus tried to cross a bridge, and swollen and plunged Glace River by Tropical Storm Fay
Tropical Storm Fay (2008)
Tropical Storm Fay was a tropical storm and the sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Fay formed from a vigorous tropical wave on August 15 over the Dominican Republic...
at outskirt of Beaumont
Beaumont, Grand'Anse
Beaumont is a municipality in the Corail Arrondissement, in the Grand'Anse Department of Haiti.It has 12,486 inhabitants....
, Grand'Ase, Haiti. September 7 – A bus carrying mostly elderly Slovak
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
tourists crashed into a highway flyover pillar on a section of Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
–Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...
motorway near Zir, Croatia, killing 14 people and injuring 30 others in the worst highway accident in Croatia since independence. September 13 – A Bazhong
Bazhong
Bazhong is a prefecture-level city in north-eastern Sichuan province, People's Republic of China.-History:Bazhong was made a prefecture-level city in 1993. Its history, however, goes back much further. During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, it was purportedly a vassal territory of the Liang State. In...
–Ningbo
Ningbo
Ningbo is a seaport city of northeastern Zhejiang province, Eastern China. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, the municipality has a population of 7,605,700 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 3,089,180 in the built up area made of 6 urban districts. It lies south of the Hangzhou Bay,...
bus plunged into a 100-meter deep valley at Nanjiang, Sichuan
Sichuan
' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...
, China, at least fifty-one killed. September 15 – A tourist bus crashed into a truck on the west coast of Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
's Sinai peninsula
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula or Sinai is a triangular peninsula in Egypt about in area. It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between two...
outside the resort of Ras Sadr, killing 14 people (7 foreign tourists from Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine and 5 Egyptians) and injuring 37 others. September 21 – A bus crashed with a truck
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...
coming from the opposite direction on Sunday morning at around 4 a.m. in Vietnam's central Nghe An province, killing 16 people on the bus and leaving 13 injured, according to the local traffic safety bureau. October 3 – A fiery collision between an 18-wheeler tractor
Tractor
A tractor is a vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction...
–trailer
Trailer (vehicle)
A trailer is generally an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle. Commonly, the term trailer refers to such vehicles used for transport of goods and materials....
, driven by Andrew David Carter, 31, and a state van
Van
A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people.In British English usage, it can be either specially designed or based on a saloon or sedan car, the latter type often including derivatives with open backs...
, killed 6 applicants for prison jobs and their driver, 36-year-old correctional officer Rodney Kelley, about 20 miles southeast of Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...
rural highway of U.S. 82 (U.S. Route 82
U.S. Route 82
U.S. Route 82 is an east–west United States highway in the southern United States. What started as a 1932 addition to the system across central Mississippi and southern Arkansas eventually became a 1,609 mile route extending from the White Sands of New Mexico to Georgia's Atlantic coast.The...
). Department of Corrections staff transported them from a state prison near Union Springs
Union Springs, Alabama
Union Springs is a town in Bullock County, Alabama, United States. The population was 3,670 at the 2000 census.-History:The area that became Union Springs was first settled by white men after the Creek Indian removal of the 1830s. Twenty-seven springs watered the land, giving rise to the name of...
to another DOC prison. The 6 applicants were identified as Julius Bouier, 26; Lionel Moore, 18; John Foye Jr., 20; Brandon Anglin, 23; Henry Simmons Sr., 45; and Derrick Ivey, 22. October 5 – A Greyhound
Greyhound
The Greyhound is a breed of sighthound that has been primarily bred for coursing game and racing, and the breed has also recently seen a resurgence in its popularity as a pedigree show dog and family pet. It is a gentle and intelligent breed...
chartered bus, with 46 people, traveling from Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
to Colusa Casino Resort, veered across Lone Star Road, Colusa County, and cartwheeled down an embankment southeast of Williams, California
Williams, California
Williams is a city in Colusa County, California, United States. The population was 5,123 at the 2010 census, up from 3,670 at the 2000 census. It is a traveler's city with many fast food restaurants, motels, and gas stations...
, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring at least 38. October 10 – A Thai
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
tour
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
bus with Kaset Techno Khon Kaen
Khon Kaen
Khon Kaen is a city in Isan, Thailand. It is also the capital of Khon Kaen province and the Khon Kaen district.-Geography and demography:Khon Kaen is located in the Khorat Plateau, in the central-northwestern area of Isaan...
University
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
students on a field trip overturned coming down a steep hill in Nadi
Nadi
Nadi is the third-largest conurbation in Fiji. It is located on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu, and had a population of 42,284 at the most recent census, in 2007. Nadi is multiracial with many of its inhabitants Indian or Fijian, along with a large transient population of foreign...
district, Prachinburi
Prachinburi
Prachinburi is a town in Thailand, capital of the Prachinburi Province....
, at 0330 local time (2030 GMT), 135 km (83.9 mi) north-east of Bangkok
Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
, killing 22 people (the driver, 18 male and 3 female students), and seriously injuring 50 others, according to Majors Suchart Yaemsak and General Sanchai Chaiamporn. October 20 – An entire family of 6 were killed as they car was shunted under another stopped car by a lorry on a motorway in Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
. David Statham, 38, his wife Michelle, 33, and their four children Reece, 13, Jay, 9, Mason, 20 months, and Ellouise, 10 weeks, died. A 46-year-old Portuguese lorry driver was later convicted of causing their deaths by careless driving and jailed for three years. October 27 – 9 people died and 18 others were injured, when a passenger jeepney
Jeepney
Jeepneys are the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. They were originally made from US military jeeps left over from World War II and are known for their flamboyant decoration and crowded seating...
with 21 people on board fell into a 300-meter ravine
Ravine
A ravine is a landform narrower than a canyon and is often the product of streamcutting erosion. Ravines are typically classified as larger in scale than gullies, although smaller than valleys. A ravine is generally a fluvial slope landform of relatively steep sides, on the order of twenty to...
in Dapdap West Tagaytay City
Tagaytay City
The City of Tagaytay is a second class city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Only away from Manila via Aguinaldo Highway, it is one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. Tagaytay City provides a good view of the Taal Volcano...
, Philippines on their way to Tanauan, Batangas to bury a dead relative's remains. November 1 – 7 people were killed and more than 30 passengers injured, in a head-on collision between an overtaking packed passenger Fermina Express bus and a Toyota Revo
Toyota Revo
For other uses, see Revo.The Toyota Revo is an Asian Sport Utility Vehicle produced by Toyota since 1998. The development started in 1997 and sold in 1998. It shares the same chassis platform with the corresponding Hilux and Hiace...
utility vehicle along the North Luzon Expressway
North Luzon Expressway
The North Luzon Expressway , and which is formerly called the North Diversion Road, and officially known as Radial Road 8 is a 4 to 8-lane limited-access toll expressway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines...
, near Sta. Ines, Mabalacat, Pampanga
Pampanga
Pampanga is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the City of San Fernando, Pampanga. Pampanga is bordered by the provinces of Bataan and Zambales to the west, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija to the north, and Bulacan to the southeast...
. Some of the fatalities' bodies were dismembered in the gruesome tragedy. November 15 - 99 people killed and 46 wounded when a bus collided head-on with a truck in Boromo. The bus caught fire and most victims were burned alive. Miracolously, the bus driver got off unhurt. December 16–25 killed and 30 injured after a bus crashes
2008 Israeli bus crash
The 2008 Israeli bus crash was a road accident in southern Israel on 16 December 2008 in which a coach carrying Russian tour operators left the road and plunged into a ravine, killing 25...
off the road and rolls down a ravine between Ovda and Eilat in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
.
2009
January 19 - 2 killed and 12 injured after a snowy highway (Interstate 70Interstate 70 in Maryland
Interstate 70 is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Cove Fort, Utah to Baltimore, Maryland. In Maryland, the Interstate Highway runs from the Pennsylvania state line in Hancock east to the Interstate's eastern terminus near its junction with I-695 at a park and ride in...
) caused 71 people in 35 cars and 5 tractor trailers to crash in Myersville, Maryland
Myersville, Maryland
Myersville is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,382 at the 2000 census.-History:The Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.-Geography:...
.
January 15 - Fifteen footballers killed when bus collided with a vehicle transporting cattle near Jos
Jos
Jos is a city in the Middle Belt of Nigeria.The city has a population of about 1.5 million residents. Popularly called "J-town" or "Jesus Our Saviour" by the residents, it is the administrative capital of Plateau State....
, Nigeria.
May 28 - Sixteen people died and four were injured when a tourist bus crashed into a crowd
2009 Yambol bus crash
The 2009 Yambol bus crash occurred on 28 May 2009 near the city of Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria. Eighteen people died, and at least 20 were injured.-Incident:...
in eastern Bulgaria.
July 26 - Eight were killed, including the driver, and three were injured when a driver travels the wrong way for 1.7 miles on the Taconic State Parkway
Taconic State Parkway
The Taconic State Parkway , is a divided highway between Kensico Dam and Chatham, the longest parkway in the U.S. state of New York. It follows a generally northward route midway between the Hudson River and the Connecticut and Massachusetts state lines...
in New York State before crashing head-on into a sport utility vehicle at about 1:30 p.m. The driver, identified as Diane Schuler
2009 Taconic State Parkway crash
The 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash was a traffic collision that occurred shortly after 1:30 PM on Sunday, July 26, 2009, on the Taconic State Parkway near Briarcliff Manor, New York. Eight people were killed when a minivan driven by 36-year-old Diane Schuler, after traveling 1.7 miles in the...
, was later found to be impaired by alcohol and marijuana. Four of her five passengers, all children, were killed as well as all three men in the oncoming vehicle. Two occupants of another car suffered minor injuries. (See 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash
2009 Taconic State Parkway crash
The 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash was a traffic collision that occurred shortly after 1:30 PM on Sunday, July 26, 2009, on the Taconic State Parkway near Briarcliff Manor, New York. Eight people were killed when a minivan driven by 36-year-old Diane Schuler, after traveling 1.7 miles in the...
.)
July 31 - Two Markham
Markham, Ontario
Markham is a town in the Regional Municipality of York, located within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. The population was 261,573 at the 2006 Canadian census...
residents, David Young, 63, and Riley Jay, 12, were killed after Young died of an unknown medical condition while driving and collided with a tree near Alexandria, Ontario. Two others, an unidentified woman and young girl, were injured, although not critically.
July 31 – At least 17 people died after a bus crash in Quiquijana District
Quiquijana District
The Quiquijana District is one of the twelve districts in the Quispicanchi Province in Peru. Its capital is the town of Quiquijana.- References : Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. . Retrieved on November 2, 2007....
in Peru. The bus was from Arequipa
Arequipa
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...
and the destination was Cusco
Cusco
Cusco , often spelled Cuzco , is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cuzco Province. In 2007, the city had a population of 358,935 which was triple the figure of 20 years ago...
.
August 10 - Two trucks loaded with passengers collided in Ciego de Avila
Ciego de Ávila Province
Ciego de Ávila is one of the provinces of Cuba, and was previously part of Camagüey Province. Its capital is Ciego de Ávila, which lies on the Carretera Central , and the second city is Morón, further north....
, Cuba, killing 14 people and injuring about 30 others.
August 13 - A heavy dump truck collides head-on with a crowded passenger bus outside of Panama City
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
, killing at least 22 people and injuring several others in one of Panama's worst-ever traffic accidents.
August 14 - 2009 Romanian bus-train collision
2009 Romanian bus-train collision
The 2009 Romanian bus–train collision occurred on August 14, 2009 at 14:10 local time when at least 14 people died after a collision between a bus and a train in Scânteia, Iaşi County, Romania on County Road 248C. The death toll was initially reported as 10...
occurred at 14:10 local time (UTC+3) when at least 13 people died after a bus-train collision in Scânteia
Scânteia, Iasi
Scânteia is a commune in Iaşi County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Bodeşti, Boroşeşti, Ciocârleşti, Lunca Rateş, Rediu, Scânteia and Tufeştii de Sus.-Road accident:...
, Iaşi County
Iasi County
Iași is a county of Romania, in Moldavia, with the administrative seat at Iași.-Demographics:As of 1 July 2007, Iași County had a population of 825,100, making it the second most populous county in Romania after Bucharest, with a population density of 150/km².*Romanians - 98.1%*Roma -...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
on County Road 248C. It was the worst accident in Romania in fifteen years.
October 18 - Quezon province double-accident - A 4-wheeler truck bumps right side signage. An hour later, a bus carried 40 students, 7 teachers and 1 parent bumped on the left side tree, a bus from Blessed Hope Christian Academy in Marikina City
Marikina City
Marikina, officially the City of Marikina, known as the Shoe Capital of the Philippines, was former capital of the province of Manila during the declaration of Philippine Independence and one of the sixteen cities within the Manila Metropolitan Area. Marikina is part of Eastern Manila District of...
going to Legazpi City
Legazpi City
The City of Legazpi is a first class city and capital of the province of Albay, Philippines. With 179,481 inhabitants according to the 2007 census, it is the largest city in the Bicol Region in terms of population, though not in land area...
- 1 killed (soldier), 3 injured (2 teachers and 1 student)
December 6 - At least 20 people killed and some 45 injured in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
after two buses were involved in a head-on collision.
December 17 - 17 people were killed when a touring coach veered off a mountain road.
December 22 - December 2009 Interstate 10 pileup
December 2009 Interstate 10 pileup
The December 2009 Interstate 10 pileup was a 22 vehicle accident in Arizona in which three people were killed and 14 others were injured. A sudden dust storm brought about by gusty winds caused visibility to drastically drop along Interstate 10, the main cause of the accident...
- Three people were killed and 14 more were injured after a sudden dust storm reduced visibility to near-zero along a portion of Interstate 10
Interstate 10
Interstate 10 is the fourth-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, after I-90, I-80, and I-40. It is the southernmost east–west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway, although I-4 and I-8 are further south. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at State Route 1 in Santa Monica,...
. Twenty-two vehicles were involved in the pileup, one of which, a tank truck, exploded and set seven other vehicles on fire.
December 26 - 10 passengers were killed when a Sani Express double-decker express bus crashed into the divider along the North-South Expressway near Ipoh
Ipoh
Ipoh is the capital city of Perak state, Malaysia. It is approximately 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur on the North-South Expressway....
, Malaysia at 1am. The driver of the bus has admitted to falling asleep at the wheel.
See also
- List of road accidents
- List of road accidents 2010-2019
- List of OECD countries by traffic-related death rate
- List of motor vehicle deaths in U.S. by year
- List of motor vehicle deaths in Japan by year
- List of bridge disasters
- List of rail accidents (2000–present) - includes level crossingLevel crossingA level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...
accidents. - List of level crossing accidents
- Accidents
External links
- Early Auto Accidents A Fascinating Collection of Photos of Auto Accidents from the 1920s to 1950's
- 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.
- A Condensed History of Vehicle Recovery in the United Kingdom.