List of traffic collisions (before 2000)

List of road accidents records serious road accidents: those with a high death toll, possess an article of their own, or which hold some historical significance. For crashes in which famous people died, please refer to List of people who died in road accidents.

Notable historic road accidents
1950s:	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
1960s:	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
1970s:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
1980s:	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
1990s:	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
2000s:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
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1700s

• 1771 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot crashes his steam engine powered vehicle into a brick wall in what is believed to have been the first automobile accident.

1800s

• August 31, 1869 – Mary Ward is thrown from and falls under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins, thought to be the first ever recorded automobile death.
• 17 August 1896 – Bridget Driscoll is the first person to die in a petrol-engined car accident.
• 25 February, 1899 – Edwin Sewell and Major Richer, are the first recorded driver and passenger fatalities respectively. They are thrown from their vehicle on Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, London.
• 13 September, 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person killed by a car in the United States.

1950s

1951

• December 1951 – A bus plows into a column of marching marine cadets in Chatham, England killing 24 boys.

1956

• 31 August 1956 – A bus plunges into an abyss and ignites in Caldas Department, Colombia, killing 12 and injuring 10.

1959

• 5 March 1959 – A bus falls off a cliff 15 miles from Matatiele, South Africa, killing 15 and injuring 30.
• 20 June 1959 – A crowded bus collides with a train on a level crossing in Lauffen, West Germany killing 43.

1960s

1960

• 1960 – A bus carrying students plunges into a river in Brazil killing 59.

1963

• 1963 – 15 die in Northland, New Zealand, when a bus left the road and hit a pole. Worst road accident in New Zealand history.

1964

• 6 March 1964 – A bus falls into a deep ravine 27 miles west of Ibagué, Colombia, killing 10 people.

1965

• 1 November 1965 – A crowded trolley bus plunges into Nile River in Cairo, Egypt killing 74.

1966

• 25 July 1966 – A bus carrying Belgian children from vacation plunges off a West German autobahn bridge killing 33, including 27 children.

1970s

1971

• 10 May 1971 – A crowded bus plunges into a reservoir in South Korea killing 75.

1972

• 18 February 1972 – A crowded bus plunges into a canal in Egypt killing 77.
• March 22 – Congers, New York, five Nyack High School students killed and 44 injured when a train hits a school bus that failed to stop at a crossing. This incident led New York State to require school vehicles stop at all railroad crossings.

1973

• July 18 – A bus carrying Belgian tourists plunges into a ravine in Vizille, France killing 43.

1974

• 4 February 1974 – 12 people, including nine soldiers are killed in the IRA's M62 coach bombing in Yorkshire, England.
• 1974 – A crowded bus and a truck collide near Belem, Brazil killing 69.

1975

• 1 January 1975 – A bus plunges into a lake near Nagano, Japan killing 23.
• 27 May 1975 – Dibble's Bridge bus crash, England, bus full of pensioners falls off a bridge, killing 38.
• 13 September 1975 – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Costa Rica killing 48.

1976

• May 21 - A rented 1950 Crown school bus carrying 50 students of the Yuba City High School A'Capella choir depletes the air supply to its brakes while on Hwy. 680 bound for Orinda. Although an unmarked warning light comes on the bus drivers' console, he thinks it is oil pressure and, without braking power, enters the southbound Marina Vista exit heading for downtown Martinez California to get service. Estimated speed was 45 mph in a 25 mph elevated ramp. Centrifugal force causes the bus to jump the curb to its left and lunge up against the guard rail, scraping along until the guard rail gives way and the bus launches out into empty air. The old school bus begins a counter-clockwise roll as it plummets to the earth. When it hits the ground, the bus is completely upside down. The bus lands nose first and the rest of the bus slams against the ground, crushing the roof against the seat tops inside - from the outside, it looks like a smashed accordion. The bus slides to a stop, leaving a trail of hard clay as the heat from the friction melts the dirt underneath. The crash kills 29: a teacher acting as chaperone plus 28 students. Deadliest school bus crash in United States. The California Highway Patrol later determines that the bus had not been regularly maintained by the rental company, had been released without proper inspection, and a worn fanbelt that circled from the driveshaft to the air compressor had come apart and fallen off leaving the bus without adequate pressure to provide braking.

1977

• June 9 – A truck crashes into a crowd at a downtown Moscow bus stop, killing eight and injuring 18.
• July 9 – An army truck and a bus collide near Moscow, killing 15 Soviet soldiers.
• August 25 – A car knocks a billboard onto a group of people in Armenia. Eight women died.

1978

• 22 January 1978 – 8.00 pm. Osiecznica, Poland. PKS bus (Państwowa Komunikacja Samochowa) collision with military truck "Kraz" - 14 killed, 59 injurned. Drunk driver of truck - soldier of unit Armia Czerwona from Legnica - survived. Driver of bus survived too - with cut left arm.
• July 11, 1978 – In Los Alfaques, in Spain, a tanker containing 45 m³ liquefied propylene left the road and veered into in a camping site, after colliding with a building. The gas exploded as a fire ball larger than 100 m diameter, killing 215 and injuring 200 people.
• 4 August 1978 – A bus carrying mentally handicapped people plunges into a lake in Eastman, Quebec, Canada killing 40.
• 15 November 1978 – About 5.00 a.m., two PKS (Polska Komunikacja Samochodowa) buses, carrying miners to "KWK Brzeszcze", crashed in ravine "Wilczy Jar", in lake Żywieckie (Jezioro Żywieckie) - killing 27 miners, two drivers and widow.

1979

• 10 April 1979 – A bus carrying children plunges into a river in Spain killing 48, including 44 children.

1980s

1980

• 3 March, 1980 – 23 are burned to death when city bus 62 catches fire in Minsk, Belarus after driving into a pool of gasoline spilled from a fuel truck.
• 9 May, 1980 – 35 are killed in the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, Tampa, Florida, after a freighter collided with a bridge pier, knocking down over 1200 ft. of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
• 29 June, 1980 – A bus plunges into a canal near Mirpur, Pakistan, and at least 90 people drown as a result.

1981

• September 29, 1981 – A head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Toledo province, Spain, kills at least 25 people.

1982

• 31 January, 1982 – Two buses collide and plunge into a gorge on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, killing 14 and injuring 70.
• 31 July 1982 – Two buses carrying children collide with cars and burst into flames in Beaune, France killing 53, including 46 children. Worst highway crash in France.
• 12 September 1982 – A bus carrying German tourists collides with a train on a level crossing near Zurich, Switzerland killing 39.
• 3 November, 1982 – Hundreds are killed in the Salang tunnel fire in Central Afghanistan, following a disaster involving a Soviet fuel convoy. Estimates are as high as 2,000 dead.

1983

• July 25, 1983 – A bus plunges into a river near Oryol, Russia, killing 10 people from West Germany, one from Austria, and injuring six people.
• November 1, 1983 – A bus collides with a motorcycle and hits a second bus 370 miles northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 21 and injuring 40.

1984

• January 6, 1984 – A minibus skids off a road 125 miles southwest of Kathmandu, Nepal, killing 15 people.
• September 24, 1984 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing 34 and injuring 11.

1985

• January 28 1985 – A bus carrying skiers plunges into a reservoir in Nagano, Japan killing 25.
• 7 April, 1985 – A bus falls into a ravine near Marble Rocks in Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 16 and injuring 39.
• 22 September, 1985 – School bus rolls over in Leiah, Pakistan, killing 30 children

1986

• 23 May, 1986 – A bus falls off a cliff and explodes in Antique Province, Philippines, killing 23 and injuring 15.
• 30 May 1986 – A tour bus plunges into a river in California killing 21.
• 8 October 1986 – A tour bus plunges into a ravine in Taiwan killing 39.
• 12 October, 1986 – A bus swerves into a ditch in northern Punjab, India, killing 11 people.
• 7 December, 1986 – A truck collides with a bus near Chengalpattu, India, killing 16 and injuring 20.

1987

• January 21, 1987 – A truck and a bus collide near Temuco, Chile killing 43.
• 2 March, 1987 – A cement truck crashes into a bus in the Caucasus, killing eight and injuring nine. The bus was traveling from Cherkessk to Vladikavkaz (then Ordzhonikidze).
• 12 March, 1987 – A bus and a van collide in western Rajasthan, India, killing 12 and injuring 20.
• 29 March, 1987 – A bus plunges off a cliff in Shaanxi Province, China, killing 19 and injuring 28.
• 13 July, 1987 – Tour bus collides with truck and car 30 miles west of Moscow, killing seven, including four Belgians, and injuring six.
• 20 October, 1987 – A bus and a car collide during a heavy fog 20 miles outside of Moscow. Both dropped into Desna River, and at least 11 of the passengers on the bus died.
• 17 November, 1987 – A bus overturns near Toledo, Spain, killing 10 and injuring 37.
• 12 December, 1987 – A bus collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Egypt, killing 57 children and injuring 58.

1988

• 14 May, 1988 – 27 die in the Carrollton bus disaster near Carrollton, Kentucky after a collision with a drunk driver driving the wrong way on Interstate 71.
• 12 August, 1988 – Two buses collide on the highway between Teheran and Tabriz in northern Iran, killing 30 and injuring 50.
• 15 August, 1988 – Bus plows into a concrete wall in a tunnel 60 miles outside of Bergen, Norway, killing 12 and injuring 19.
• 22 September, 1988 – Bus falls into a ravine near Simla, India, 35 people die
• October 12, 1988 – A bus ignites after toppling into a ditch in Shaanxi Province, China, killing 43 and injuring 40.
• December 4, 1988 – 13 die and 36 are injured when a bus and a truck collide on a highway between Tepic and Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

1989

• January 17, 1989 – 51 die and 110 are injured when a bus collides with a train at a level crossing 45 miles south of Columbo, Sri Lanka.
• June 9, 1989 – 31 bus passengers and 14 people are injured when a bus drives onto a railway crossing in Rostov Oblast, Russia and is hit by a train.
• October 20, 1989 – 21 die in the Grafton bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Grafton in Australia.
• 12 December, 1989 – 35 are killed in the Kempsey bus crash on the Pacific Highway near Kempsey.

1990s

1990

• 14 January, 1990 – Two buses collide 60 miles east of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 10 people.
• 22 January, 1990 – Karak Expressway, Malaysia 15 die in a collision between FRU riot police vehicles, tankers lorry, passenger bus and 10 cars.
• 22 April, 1990 – Two buses collide in Havana, Cuba, killing 11 and seriously injuring 13.
• 8 July, 1990 – A bus ignores a barrier at a railroad crossing and collides with a passenger train near Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia, killing 27 (34 according to unofficial sources) and injuring 24. The bus driver is slightly injured.
• 22 November, 1990 – A bus ignores a red light and collides with a train at a railroad crossing in Donetsk, Ukraine, killing 19 and wounding 13, though the bus driver is not injured.
• 28 December, 1990 – A truck carrying 15 prisoners collides with a bus in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, killing two bus passengers, a guard, and three prisoners. Eleven people are injured.
• 30 December, 1990 – 56 die in a collision involving a bus, truck and car on a highway between Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don in Russia, USSR.

1991

• 15 February, 1991 – In Southern Thailand a truck carrying dynamite to a stone quarry suddenly and catastrophically exploded, killing between 122 and 180 villagers.
• 4 August, 1991 – A crowded bus carrying school children crashes in Zimbabwe killing 87, including 82 children.
• 23 August, 1991 – A bus veers off a mountain road near Przemysl, Poland, killing eight and injuring 16.

1992

• 19 August, 1992 – A bus falls down an embankment on the A7 highway in Spain, killing 45 and injuring 11.

1993

• 9 January, 1993 – Three buses collide and ignite on a highway in Argentina, killing 55 and injuring 70.
• 18 November, 1993 – Leamington Spa, United Kingdom Eleven die in a collision between a lorry and a school bus.

1994

• 2 May 1994: bus disaster in Poland: 32 die in collision between PKS (Państwowa Komunikacja Samochodowa) bus and tree in Gdańsk-Kokoszki. Disaster occurred about 7.00 pm.

1995

• 25 October, 1995 – Fox River Grove level crossing accident, Illinois, United States kills seven when a school bus is hit by a train.

1996

• 25 February, 1996 – Two buses collide head-on near La Paz, Bolivia, killing at least 35.
• 28 February, 1996 – A charter bus collides with a car near Bailen, Spain, killing 29 and injuring 17.

1997

• January 14, 1997 – A crowded city bus plunges into the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, killing 39 people and injuring 24.
• January 19, 1997 – A bus plunges into a river after losing control on a curvy road in Punjab, India, killing 29 and injuring 12.
• October 13, 1997 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident in Quebec, Canada, results in 44 deaths when a bus plunged into a ravine.
• November 6, 1997 – A passenger train crashes into a bus in Holguín Province, Cuba, killing at least 56 people.

1998

• April 15, 1998 – A school bus is involved in a five-vehicle collision near Newcastle, South Africa, killing 31, including 27 children.
• September 8, 1998 – A tanker truck flips and explodes on a highway north of São Paulo, Brazil, setting fire to two buses and killing at least 50.

1999

• January 24, 1999 – A bus carrying Hungarian tourists crashes in Austria killing 18 and injuring 32.
• & 24 March, 1999 – 39 people killed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire.
• 9 May, 1999 – A tour bus crashes into a concrete wall on Interstate 610 in New Orleans, killing 22 and injuring 24.
• 3 September, 1999 – 8 people died and 33 were injured when dense fog enveloped Highway 401 near Windsor, Ontario, reducing visibility to less than a meter (3 feet). 87 vehicles were destroyed, and many were fused together due to the intense heat.
• May 29, 1999 – 12 people killed and 50 injured in a collision and fire in Tauern Tunnel in Austria.
• 9 October, 1999 – 17 people killed when bus falls into a ravine near Gollany Junction in northern Israel.
• 20 November, 1999 – Ilorin, Nigeria, 22 people killed in fiery collision between two buses.

2000s

2000

• 29 March, 2000 – 74 people died in a collision between two buses in Kerichko, Kenya.
• 13 May, 2000 - A bus carrying Muslim pilgrims plunges into a river in Bosnia killing 43.
• 6 July, 2000 – A truck collides with a charter bus near Soria, Spain, killing at least 27 people.
• 7 July, 2000 - A bus plunges into a river in Liuzhou, Guangxi province killing all 78 aboard.
• 28 August, 2000 – 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.
• 12 October, 2000 – Owerri bus crash, Nigeria, Fifty people die when bus collides with fuel tanker and tanker explodes.
• 6 November, 2000 – 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.
• 24 November, 2000 – Benin City bus crash, Nigeria, Sixty people die when bus falls into a ravine.
• 24 December, 2000 – A bus traveling from Cape Town to Butterworth plunges off a mountain road in South Africa, leaving 20 passengers dead and 55 injured.

2001

• 16 February, 2001 – 13 people killed in the Gracanica bus bombing in Kosovo.
• March 4, 2001 – 70+ killed when a bridge collapsed as a bus was crossing the Douro in Portugal, in which was known as Hintze Ribeiro disaster.
• 26 June, 2001 – A bus swerves and hits a ditch 80 miles southwest of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, killing 41 people.
• 10 August, 2001 – An overcrowded bus falls into a river in Xinjiang, China, while traveling from Urumqi to Xinhe County, killing 34 people.
• 17 August, 2001 – A bus and a truck collide head-on on a road between Kerman and Sirjan in Iran, killing 30 people.
• 23 August, 2001 – A bus rolls over after colliding with a car in eastern Turkey, killing 12 and injuring 36.
• 14 November, 2001 – A bus flips over on a road near Huelva, Spain, killing 19 people.
• 14 December, 2001 – 52 pilgrims killed in Aqaba bus crash in Jordan.

2002

• 19 April 2002 - A bus carrying construction workers plunges off a mountain road near Salalah, Oman killing 46 in country's worst ever road accident.
• 23 April 2002 – A steamroller falls off a truck and crushes a bus 70 miles north of Ufa, Russia, killing 14 people.
• 8 May 2002 – 14 people die in the suicide bombing of a bus in Karachi.
• 26 May, 2002 – 14 die in the 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.
• 15 June, 2002 – A truck and a bus crash head-on on a highway in North Chungchong, South Korea, killing 15 and seriously injuring about 20 people.
• 1 July, 2002 – A bus traveling from Poland to Bosnia flips over at a roundabout near Lake Balaton in Hungary, killing 19.
• 19 July 2002 – Over 70 die when a bus is hit by a runaway fuel tanker at Rutoto in Uganda.
• 25 July 2002 – A bus plunges off a mountain road in Kosovo, killing 10 and injuring 31.
• 18 August 2002 – A bus falls into a ravine and overturns near Yantikovo, Chuvashia, Russia, killing 21 and injuring 37.
• October, 2002 – 10 die on Interstate 43 just south of Cedar Grove, Wisconsin in a fiery 38 car pileup caused by low visibility due to fog. The accident is considered the worst traffic accident in Wisconsin state history.
• 16 November 2002 – A bus crash in Cuesta del Totoral in Northern Argentina kills over fifty people.

2003

• 23 February 2003 - An Athens-bound intercity bus plunges into a river near Thessaloniki, Greece killing 16.
• 8 March, 2003 – A tourist bus crashes near Kaplice, Czech Republic killing 19 and injuring 35.
• 1 May 2003, 80 people drown in the Bethlehem bus crash, when the driver drove off a dam and into a reservoir.
• 13 April 2003 - 21 students killed in collision between their bus and a truck in Tembi, Greece
• April 16 2003 - A truck and a bus collide on a main highway in Cuba killing 30 and injuring 71.
• May 17 2003 - A double-decker bus carrying German tourists crashes on a highway near Lyon, France killing 28 and injuring 46 passengers.
• 4 June 2003, 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.
• 10 July 2003 – 21 killed in the Tuen Mun Road bus accident, Hong Kong, when a bus plunged off a motorway viaduct after being hit by lorry. Worst road accident in history of the Territory.
• 10 September 2003 – A bus was hit a high speed in heavy rain near the city of Valencia, Venezuela, killing 34.
• 23 November 2003 – 14 passengers were killed in a bus tragedy at kilometre 63 of Lipis-Merapoh road (Federal route 8) near Merapoh, Pahang.
• 17 December, 2003 – A bus transporting miners from Simferopol to Alushta plunges into a ditch on a mountain road in Crimea, Ukraine, killing 17 and injuring 19.

2004

• 9 January, 2004 – Bhakkar bus crash, Pakistan, at least 56 die as bus rolls into a ravine.
• 22 February 2004 – A bus near Fortaleza in Brazil tumbled off a dam into a reservoir, killing over 40 people
• 19 March 2004 – 23 people killed in the Äänekoski bus disaster, Finland.
• 4 April 2004 – 12 Bulgarian children are killed when a bus returning them from an excursion to Dubrovnik, Croatia plunges into a river near Bijelo Polje, Montenegro.
• 16 June, 2004 – Islamabad, Pakistan, at least 50 die in collision between bus and tractor.
• 24 June 2004 – A tanker carrying 17,000 litres of petrol collided with a bus in Zahedan, near Bam in Iran. 90 people were killed.
• 14 October 2004 – 15 Kosovan children are killed when a bus returning them from an excursion plunges into a ravine in Albania.

2005

• 3 January 2005 – A truck overloaded with Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims overturns in Qinghai province, China killing 54.
• 6 January 2005 – A truck and a bus collide on a highway in Fujian province, China killing 28 and injuring 19.
• 3 February 2005 – 55 wedding guests die in the Nagpur level crossing disaster, India.
• 8 March 2005 – A school bus catches fire in Shandong, China, killing 12 children.
• 21 April 2005 – 31 war veterans die in bus crash on the old Ho Chi Minh trail, Vietnam.
• 27 April, 2005 – over 50 people are killed in the Polgahawela level crossing collision when a bus is hit by train.
• 22 May, 2005 – 35 are killed in the Jauja bus disaster, Peru when a bus plunged off bridge.
• 7 June 2005 – 38 people killed in the Badarmude bus explosion, when a bus struck a land mine.
• 23 September 2005 – 23 elderly people died when their bus catches fire and burns as they flee Hurricane Rita near Wilmer, Texas.
• 15 October 2005 – A speeding bus falls into a river in Bogra District, Bangladesh, killing 25 people.
• 24 December 2005 – A bus plunges into the icy Yellow River in Hanggin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China, killing 28.

2006

• 13 January 2006 – A bus collides with a train in heavy fog in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, killing 21 people.
• 20 January 2006 – A bus plunges off a road and into a 300-foot gorge in Rajouri, India, killing about 50 people and injuring 15.
• 23 January 2006 – Two buses collide head on in Sao Paulo State in Brazil, killing 33 people.
• 7 February, 2006 – 12 Turkish tourists die when their bus plunges into a ravine in Rome, Italy.
• 22 March 2006 – Twelve Americans die when a tour bus falls into a canyon near Arica, Chile.
• 17 April 2006 – 57 people died in the Maltrata bus crash in central Mexico.
• 20 April, 2006 – At least 47 die when bus falls into a lake at Sarupeta, India
• 16 May, 2006 – At least 35 die when two buses collide head-on near Kumasi, Ghana
• 26 May 2006 – 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.
• 15 June 2006 – A bus carrying 45 miners from the Uchucchacua mine to Lima in Peru fell into a ravine, killing 28 people.
• 30 June 2006 – 11 pilgrims to the annual St Anne’s Feast were killed in a bus tragedy at North-South Expressway near Nibong Tebal, Penang in Malaysia.
• 8 July 2006 – Thirteen die and eight are injured when a bus plunges down a ravine in Uttarakhand, India.
• 20 September, 2006 – A bus veers off its path and collides with a truck on the road between Kerman and Mashhad in eastern Iran, killing 13 and injuring 16.
• 24 September 2006 – Forty-seven people die when a bus crashes into a wall on a road in Papallacta, Ecuador.
• 25 September 2006 – A bus traveling from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma, Tanzania overturns while speeding near Dar es Salaam, killing 16 and injuring 41.
• 1 October, 2006 – Thirty killed as a bus falls off a bridge into the Jialing River in Chongqing, China.
• 3 October, 2006 – Twelve killed and 16 injured when a truck and a bus collide near Menbej, in northwest Syria.
• 8 October, 2006 – Forty-two people die when a bus falls down a ravine during foggy and rainy conditions in Chiantla, Guatemala.
• 8 October, 2006 – A double-decker bus crashes into a truck in northern Argentina, killing 12 people.
• 9 October, 2006 – Twelve people helping in Typhoon Xangsane relief efforts are killed in a van accident in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam.
• 15 October, 2006 – Two buses and a truck collide in Sivas Province, Turkey, killing 13 and injuring more than 20.
• 19 October, 2006 – A bus overcrowded with passengers plunges into a reservoir in Madhya Pradesh, India, killing 56 people.
• 21 October, 2006 – A bus plunges off a mountain road between Sucre and Cochabamba in Bolivia, killing 29 and injuring 25.
• 23 October, 2006 – A bus catches fire in downtown Panama City, killing 18 people.
• 25 October, 2006 – A bus falls off the road and into the Teesta River in Sikkim, India, killing 25 and injuring 45.
• 26 October, 2006 – A bus falls into a ravine and catches fire near Rohri, Pakistan, killing at least 20 people.
• 26 October, 2006 – A bus crashes down an embankment near Arequipa, Peru, killing 20 and injuring 12.
• 28 October, 2006 – A crowded bus plunges off a cliff in Nepal, killing 42 and injuring 43.
• 29 October, 2006 – A bus collides with an oil truck near Multan, Pakistan, killing 22 and injuring 23.
• 31 October, 2006 – A bus falls into a river in Enugu State, Nigeria, killing 18 people.
• 31 October, 2006 – Floods sweep away a minibus traveling in Diyarbakir Province, Turkey, killing 14 people.
• 1 November, 2006 – Two buses collide in Sirajganj District, Bangladesh, killing 18 and wounding 30.
• 8 November, 2006 – A bus plunges into a ravine near Gwadar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring 16.
• 8 November, 2006 – A truck transporting farm workers plunges into a river in Hoshangabad District, India, killing 29 and injuring 30.
• 11 November, 2006 – A bus skids off a road in Kanchanaburi, Thailand and crashes into a tree, killing 17 and injuring 23.
• 12 November, 2006 – A bus plunges into a river from a bridge in Chile, killing 19 people.
• 14 November, 2006 – A bus plunges into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh, India, killing 13 and injuring 41.
• 26 November, 2006 – A bus collides with a truck southwest of Teheran, Iran, killing 13 and injuring 17.
• 26 November, 2006 – A truck carrying passengers veers off the road on a sharp curve in Tamil Nadu, India, killing 17 and injuring 57.
• 2 December, 2006 – A bus traveling from Delhi to Shimla rolls into a gorge near Solan, India, killing 14 and injuring 29.
• 3 December, 2006 – A tour bus carrying 45 plunges into a valley in Tainan, Taiwan, killing 22 and injuring 23. See zh:2006年梅嶺車禍
• 4 December, 2006 – A bus plunges into a ravine on a mountain road in Puno Region, Peru, killing 45 people.
• 7 December, 2006 – A truck hits a bus, causing it to fall from a highway bridge in Byala, Bulgaria, and killing 19 people.
• 9 December, 2006 – A bus hits a truck on the road between Eldoret and Nakuru in Kenya, killing 15 people.
• 9 December, 2006 – 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.
• 12 December, 2006 – A truck ploughs into a group of parked cars in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 20 people.
• 13 December, 2006 – A bus plunges into a river after colliding with a truck on a mountain road near Bagua, Peru, killing 21 and injuring 30.
• 21 December, 2006 – Two buses collide head-on near Akure, Nigeria, killing 17 people.
• 24 December, 2006 – A bus goes out of control, overturns and smashes into bridge supports near Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, killing 12 and injuring 40.
• 25 December, 2006 – Two minivans collide in Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, causing a methane explosion that kills 13 people.
• 30 December, 2006 – An oil tanker collides with a bus in heavy fog near Burewala, Pakistan, killing 14 people.

2007

• 4 January, 2007 – A bus plunges into the Chenab River in Doda District, Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing 12 and injuring 35. Another source gives the death toll as 14.
• 6 January, 2007 – A bus traveling from Dhaka to Chittagong crashes and catches fire near Comilla, Bangladesh, killing from 55 to 70 people.
• 10 January, 2007 – A truck slams into a bus on the highway between Arak and Malayer in Iran, killing 14 and seriously injuring 16.
• 12 January, 2007 – Two buses collide near the border between Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, killing 22 hajj pilgrims.
• 15 January, 2007 – A bus collides head-on with a tractor-trailer in Cesar Department, Colombia, killing 20 people.
• 19 January, 2007 – A double-decker bus plunges into a river near Chiang Mai, Thailand, killing 22 people.
• 22 January, 2007 – A speeding bus overturns 250 miles northeast of Kampala, Uganda, leading to 21 deaths and 30 injuries.
• 24 January, 2007 – A bus falls into a ravine near Huautla, Oaxaca, Mexico, killing at least 29 and injuring more than 24.
• 27 January, 2007 – 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, 2007 – A truck veers off its lane and rams into a bus in Ghana, killing 16.
• 2 February, 2007 – An overcrowded minibus skids off a road and falls into a gorge in Rajouri District, India, killing 19 and injuring 23.
• 2 February, 2007 – A tanker carrying liquefied carbon dioxide crashes, overturns and explodes in Tigbao, Philippines, killing 50 and injuring 65.
• 3 February, 2007 – Two buses collide on a highway in Hechi, China, killing 13 and injuring 75.
• 8 February, 2007 – A train collides with a bus at a level crossing in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, killing 13 and injuring 24.
• 16 February, 2007 – A bus crashes head-on into a truck near Ouro Preto, Brazil, killing 13 and injuring 23.
• 19 February, 2007 – Two buses collide near Makhado, South Africa, killing 17 and injuring 45.
• 22 February, 2007 – A bus crashed into a crowd celebrating the Carnival in Oruro, Bolivia, killing 15 people.
• 26 February, 2007 – A bus rolls down a 300-foot gorge in Reasi, India, killing 12 and injuring nine.
• 27 February, 2007 – A bus traveling through western Nepal plunges off a mountain road into a riverbank, killing 13 and injuring more than 30.
• 6 March, 2007 – A bus collides with a freight train at a level crossing in Harare, Zimbabwe, killing 37 people.
• 12 March, 2007 – A bus transporting a wedding party rolls down a gorge and falls into the Mandakini River in Rudraprayag District, India, killing 18 and injuring 27. Drunk driving is suspected as the cause.
• 15 March, 2007 – A truck and a bus collide just outside Morogoro, Tanzania, killing 12.
• 15 March, 2007 – A minibus overturns and falls into a valley in Yunnan, China, killing 14 and injuring 12.
• 15 March, 2007 – A bus veers off the road and plunges into a reservoir in Hanzhong, China, killing at least 22 and injuring 11.
• 17 March, 2007 – A bus overturns and falls into a ditch in Purulia District, India, killing 16 and injuring 67.
• 18 March, 2007 – A bridge collapses near Gueckedou, Guinea, sending an overloaded truck plunging into a river and killing at least 70 people.
• 20 March, 2007 – 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, 2007 – A tire bursts on a bus, causing it to overturn in Central Province, Zambia, killing 14 and injuring 27.
• 23 March, 2007 – A bus and a wagon collide on a highway in Khairpur District, Pakistan, killing at least 13.
• 27 March, 2007 – A vehicle plunges into a gorge in Jharkhand, India, killing at least 13.
• 5 April, 2007 – 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, 2007 – 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, 2007 – A passenger bus overturns on a highway near Rabat, Morocco, killing 12 and injuring 43.
• 10 April, 2007 – A bus traveling 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, 2007 – A bus headed for Harare veers off the road and overturns in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, killing at least 10 people.
• 14 April, 2007 – A bus transporting children from Izmir to Cappadocia collides with a truck near Aksaray, Turkey, killing 33, mostly children, and injuring 35.
• 14 April, 2007 – A bus and a truck collide near Ciudad Juarez, 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, 2007 – A bus falls off a road into a ravine in northwest Pakistan, leaving 11 dead and nine injured.
• 14 April, 2007 – A bus crashes in northern Kenya, killing 15 and injuring 61.
• 16 April, 2007 – A bus transporting shoppers from Teresina to Fortaleza, Brazil falls 50 feet off a cliff after experiencing brake problems, killing 11 and injuring 29.
• 19 April, 2007 – A bus falls down a 150-meter cliff on the road between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 26 and injuring 19.
• 23 April, 2007 – 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, 2007 – A bus drives off a mountain road and falls 300 feet into a stream near Poonch, India, killing 22 and injuring 14.
• 2 May, 2007 – A bus skids off a mountain road and falls into a gorge in Kotkhai, India, killing 19 and injuring about 30.
• 4 May, 2007 – 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, 2007 – 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, 2007 – A bus drives off a road and plunges 20 meters into a cornfield in Guizhou, China, killing 17 and injuring 25.
• 7 May, 2007 – A speeding bus and a truck collide 90 km north of Maseru, Lesotho, killing 39 and injuring 54.
• 10 May, 2007 – A bus traveling 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 were killed.
• 11 May, 2007 – A bus swerves on the road, loses control and falls into the Ganges riverbed near Patna, India, killing 20 and injuring 12.
• 11 May, 2007 – A jeep collides with an oil tanker in Mayurbhanj District, India, killing 10 and injuring 5.
• 13 May, 2007 – Three buses collide in Rivers State, Nigeria, causing a large explosion that kills at least 50 people.
• 14 May, 2007 – An oil tanker, bus and truck collide about 40 miles south of Ahmedabad, India, killing at least 30 people.
• 18 May, 2007 – Two buses collide on a highway between Zulia and Lara in Venezuela, killing 17 and injuring 20.
• 20 May, 2007 – A three-wheeled tractor with a cargo trailer overturns on a mountain road in Liaoning, China, killing 20 women.
• 23 May, 2007 – A bus traveling from Mosul, Iraq overturns on a highway in Syria, 250 miles north of Damascus, killing 14 and injuring 20.
• 10 June, 2007 – A van heading from Peshawar to Chitral plunges into a ravine in Malakand, Pakistan, killing 12 and injuring 6.

See also

• List of bridge disasters
• List of rail accidents - includes level crossing accidents.
• Accidents

Highest death toll

• ~2,000 – Salang tunnel fire, 1982
• 100-200 – Lagos tanker disaster, 2000
• 80 – Bethlehem bus crash, 2003
• 57 – Maltrata bus crash, 2006
• 55 – Nagpur level crossing disaster, 2005
• 50 – Polgahawela level crossing collision, 2005
• 44 – 1997 Les Éboulements bus accident
• & 39 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, 1999
• 38 – Badarmude bus explosion, 2005
• 35 – Kempsey bus crash, 1989
• 30 – Kasganj level crossing disaster, 2002
• 27 – Carrollton bus disaster (1988)
• 23 – Äänekoski bus disaster, 2004
• 21 – Grafton bus crash, 1989

External links

• 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.