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The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.
1976 Chowchilla kidnapping. On July 15, 1976, in Chowchilla, California, three armed men hijacked a school bus. They abducted the driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, and imprisoned them in a truck trailer buried in a quarry in Livermore, California. The bus driver and children managed to escape before the kidnappers could issue their ransom ...
The crash occurred about 7:30 a.m. in the T-intersection of Highway 20 and South Tarke Road just east of the small town of Meridian, the California Highway Patrol reported.
September 21 – United States – Alton, Texas bus crash – A truck hit a school bus in Alton, Texas, and the bus fell into a caliche pit filled with water killing 21 students. [121] September 22 – Yugoslavia – At the level crossing in Pojatno , a passenger train on the Zagreb - Varaždin route, travelling at a speed of 80 km/h (49.7 mph ...
Driver And 11 Students Hurt In Calif. School Bus CrasAlmost immediately after a school bus carrying 11 middle schoolers crashed in California Thursday morning, witnesses rushed to help pull ...
ORLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A FedEx tractor-trailer crossed over a grassy median on a Northern California freeway and slammed into a bus carrying more than 40 high school students in an explosive crash ...
The 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision was a grade crossing collision that killed seven students riding aboard a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, on the morning of October 25, 1995. The school bus, driven by a substitute driver, was stopped at a traffic light with the rearmost portion extending onto a portion of the railroad ...
September 17 – United States – Chualar bus crash – A freight train collided with a bus carrying 58 migrant farmworkers at a railroad crossing outside Chualar, California, killing 32 people and injuring 25. The crash ranks as the deadliest automobile accident in the United States to date, according to the National Safety Council.