Archive for the ‘Transportation incident’ Category
A runaway semi plowed into stopped traffic near Denver, igniting a fiery crash that included a dozen cars and three semis killing and injuring an unknown number of victims.
Friday, April 26th, 2019At least 28 people have died after a bus carrying German tourists plunged off a road and overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Wednesday, April 17th, 20193/11/2004: 191 people are killed and nearly 2,000 are injured when 10 bombs explode on four trains in three Madrid-area train stations during a busy morning rush hour.
Monday, March 11th, 20193/2/1944: A train stops in a tunnel near Salerno, Italy, and more than 500 people on board suffocate and die.
Saturday, March 2nd, 2019“……either the train was unable to pull the overloaded freight cars up the slope or the train stopped to wait for a train descending in the opposite direction. In any case, the train sat idling in the tunnel for more than 30 minutes. While this might not have posed a severe danger in some circumstances, the train’s locomotives were burning low-grade coal substitutes because high-grade coal was hard to obtain during the war and the coal substitutes produced an excess of odorless and toxic carbon monoxide.
Approximately 520 of the train’s passengers were asphyxiated by the carbon monoxide as they sat in the train…..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUScStAcjNs
North Macedonia: A bus carrying workers crashed into a ravine outside Skopje Wednesday, killing 14 people and injuring about 30
Friday, February 15th, 2019“…………Venko Filipce, the newly renamed European nation’s health minister, said seven people were pronounced dead at the scene and the rest died after being taken to a hospital. Six of those injured had life-threatening conditions…..
The bus was carrying about 50 people when it veered off a highway linking Skopje with…. Tetovo and plunged 10 meters (30 feet) into a small ravine, landing upside down. The cause of the crash…wasn’t yet known…..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTBOnkh4B4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6kBKV2jW3Q
At least six people were killed and 16 more wounded Wednesday in an accident that happened as a passenger train was crossing a long bridge between two islands in central Denmark.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass Thursday at a station in the Turkish capital of Ankara, killing nine people and injuring dozens.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3AVq5HrLkc