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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 ...
32. Injured. 25. The Chualar bus crash took place on September 17, 1963, when a freight train collided with a makeshift "bus"— a flatbed truck with two long benches and a canopy— carrying 58 migrant farmworkers on a railroad crossing outside Chualar in the Salinas Valley, California, United States, killing 32 people and injuring 25.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
2000. July 7 – Spain – A bus collided head-on with a truck near Soria, killing 27 and injuring 13. [1] August 28 – Nigeria – Abuja bus crash. A lorry crushed three buses after its brakes failed, rolling backwards into a crowded bus station and killing over 70. Related riots the next day killed four more people.
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 ...