DANGEROUS ROADS
* Canada - 1 dead, 10 injured in bus crash inCalgary,CAN -People's Daily Online (Beijing,China) -16 Sept 2006: -- A bus riding some 16 British soldiers rolled over in western Canada's Alberta province Friday afternoon, killing one and injuring at least 10, officials have confirmed... Several possible causes for the crash are under investigation, including driver error, weather conditions and mechanical failure...
* UK - Fifteen hurt in bus and van crash
Devon,UK -BBC News -16 Sept 2006: -- Fifteen people have been injured in a road crash involving a bus and a van in north Devon... The collision happened at Pathfields in South Molton, near the Allers Cross roundabout, on Saturday morning... The bus driver, his 12 passengers and a passenger in the van were described as having minor injuries... (Photo: All the injured were taken to hospital after the crash)
* Swiss - Bus crashes in highway tunnel, six killed
Geneva,Swiss -Reuters -Sep 16, 2006: -- At least six people were killed when a bus carrying an ice hockey team crashed and caught fire in a tunnel in eastern Switzerland on Saturday, police said... The accident occurred in the Viamala road tunnel on the A13 motorway, near the Swiss border with Italy and Austria, when a car swerved to avoid a wheel lost by another vehicle, local media reported... The bus and car caught fire, filling the tunnel, almost 750 meters (820 yards) long, with smoke that slowed rescue efforts...
* USA - Car rams bus; 23 hospitalized
Ionia County,Mich,USA -The Detroit Free Press -Sept 16, 2006: -- At least 23 people, mostly children, were treated at hospitals after a car slammed into a school bus Friday... The bus rolled over and came to rest on its right side in the morning accident on M-50 just west of Lake Odessa in rural southwestern Ionia County. Victims had broken bones, sprains, cuts and bruises... Deputies said the accident occurred when an 18-year-old Lake Odessa woman who was driving a 1986 Cadillac south on a side road ran through a stop sign at the highway and struck the eastbound bus broadside...
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