Gillingham bus disaster
1951 road accident in the UK / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gillingham bus disaster occurred outside Chatham Dockyard, Kent[1] on the evening of 4 December 1951. A double-decker bus ploughed into a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps,[2] aged between nine and thirteen. Twenty-four of the cadets were killed and eighteen injured; at the time it was the highest loss of life in any road accident in British history, until it was surpassed by the 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash which killed 33.
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1951 Gillingham bus disaster | |
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Date | 4 December 1951 |
Location | Gillingham, Kent |
Incident type | Bus-pedestrian crash |
Cause | Poor lighting. |
Statistics | |
Deaths | 24 |
Injured | 18 |
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