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When it comes to the most deadly road crashes in history, the bus is front and center. We recently talked to a bus crash expert to get his insight on the most famous bus crashes in history. The first major bus crash took place all the way back in 1934 when a crash in Ossining, New York, claimed 20 lives. Some years later, in 1941, a Royal Air Force bus in the United Kingdom crashed into a truck and caught fire. Nine airmen were killed in the crash and 13 more people were injured. The following year, a United States Army bus crashed into a truck and claimed the lives of 10 United States servicemen, with another 21 people injured. This crash also took place in the UK, happening during a time when many U.S. soldiers were stationed in England for World War II. Several other major bus crashes took place in the 1940s, but none as serious as these. According to our bus crash expert, the next major crash took place in Japan in 1950. In this tragic accident, a bus veered off the road and fell forty feet into pond. Eighteen people were injured, and 22 lost their lives. It was the deadliest bus crash in history up to this point. That record would only last a few months. Later that same year, another bus in Japan fell a frightening 240 feet into the Mononobe River in Shikoku. A stunning 33 people were killed, with another 24 injured. In fact, the early 1950s were a bad time for buses in Japan, because just a few months after THAT, in mid 1951, a commuter bus plunged off the Harada Bridge in Hokkaido, resulting in 24 deaths. Meanwhile, another stunning crash in England that same year claimed 24 lives, all of them young military cadets between 10 and 13 years old. That crash is the famous Gillingham Bus Disaster. It was the highest loss of life in any road disaster in England up until that point, and one that shook the nation due to the age of the victims. In 1954, a bus and a train in Argentina collided, resulting in 22 people being killed. That same year, on the island of Reunion, the worst bus crash in history took place when the brakes on a bus failed while on a slope in Saint Paul. A shocking 54 people were killed in the crash, 23 of them instantly. In 1958, the United States had its own Gillingham Bus Disaster known as the Prestonburg, Kentucky bus disaster. There a Floyd County school bus crashed into a wrecker and then plunged down an embankment into a river overflowing with flood waters. Some 27 people

died, 26 of them children. This was the second biggest bus disaster in United States history. According to our bus crash expert, the 1950s still had a few more tragic bus accidents left. First, in Greece, 29 people were killed when their bus could not handle a difficult turn and fell 350 meters down a steep slope. The decade closed out with the worst crash in German history. A bus full of people collided with a train in Lauffen am Neckar, killing 45 people. The early days of bus travel clearly had many shocking disasters and sadly, there was more to come.