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Structural
1902 Ibrox UK 25 537
collapse/crowds
1913 Glamorgan UK Pit/mining/explosion 439 ?
1915 Gretna Green UK Rail 200+ ?
Several
1917 London UK Explosion 73
hundred'
Coppenhall
1962 UK Rail 18 33
Junction
Green Park
1975 UK Terrorism 1 20
Underground
1975 Kensington UK Terrorism - -
1975 Hantsholm Denmark Sea 11 -
Westoning,
1976 UK Fire/explosion - N/K
Bedfordshire
Polmont,
1984 UK Rail 13 44
Scotland
1984 Britain UK Severe weather 22 -
1984 Uttoxeter UK Air 11 3
1984 Ahvenisto Finland Air 5 26
Trafalgar Square,
1990 UK Crowds - 133
London
Portishead,
1990 UK Hazardous materials - -
Bristol
Aylesbury,
1990 UK Pollution - -
Buckinghamshire
Scarborough,
1990 UK Fire - -
North Yorkshire
1990 Bowes, Durham UK Evacuation - -
1990 UK UK Severe weather 10 ?
1990 Carlton Club UK Terrorism - 20
Royston,
1991 UK Explosion - -
Hertfordshire
Weybourne,
1991 UK Hazardous materials - -
Norfolk
Bradford-on-
1991 UK Hazardous materials - -
Tone, Somerset
London, Cannon
1991 UK Rail 1 37
Street
1991 Norfolk UK Fire/pollution - -
Bishopsgate,
1993 UK Terrorism 1 37
London
1993 Perthshire UK Air 9 -
1993 Nottinghamshire UK Mining/tip 3 ?
1993 Glasgow UK Crowds 1 4
Scarborough, N
1993 UK Landslide - -
Yorks
Blairgowrie,
1994 UK Fire/evacuation - -
Perthshire
1994 Clwyd UK Pollution - -
Talybont-on-Usk,
1994 UK Floods - -
Powys
Strathclyde
1994 UK Floods - -
region
1994 Coventry UK Air ? ?
Severn Bridge,
1995 UK Road 10 20
M4
1995 Southend UK Fire - -
Malvern Hills,
1995 UK Fire - -
Worcs
Paddington
1995 UK Rail - ?
Station, London
1995 Hailsham UK Hazardous materials - -
Canary Wharf,
1996 UK Terrorism 2 100
London
1996 Cornwall & Devon UK Floods - -
Milford Haven,
1996 UK Pollution - -
Dyfed
1996 Middlesborough UK Road/pollution - -
1996 London UK Terrorism ? ?
Dunblane,
1996 UK Shooting/mass murder 17 13
Scotland
Cormoros
1996 Indian Ocean Air/Hijack 120+ ?
Islands
A19, North
1997 UK Road 1 4
Yorkshire
M42, Hereford &
1997 UK Road 3 62
Worcester
River Thames,
1997 UK Sea/river - -
London
1997 Over Pacific Japan Air 1 110
Long Marston, N
1997 UK Air - 2
Yorks
Hereford &
1997 UK Road 3 62
Worcester
St Etienne-en-
1999 France Cable car/alpine 20 0
Dzoluy
Great Heck,
2001 UK Rail 10 76+
Selby
Alicante/Benidor
2003 Spain Terrorism ? ?
m
2003 North Yorkshire UK Air 0 0
Structural
2004 Moscow Russia 20 100+
collapse/crowds
Boscastle,
2004 UK Floods 0 ?
Cornwall
England/Scotland
2005 UK Storms/floods ? ?
/Wales
Hemel
2005 Hempstead UK Fire/Explosion 0 43
Date n/k: Flooding in Bavaria: damage estimated at more than 50 million ECU
Date n/k: Fire in a children's home in Kangasala
23 January: York-Bristol express derailed at speed on a curved piece of track.
Date n/k: Bus drove off a raft and into lake
4 December: Cannon Street to Ramsgate express in collision with a local train in
thick fog. A bridge collapsed on the wreckage.
Date n/k: Collision of two passenger trains
December: Train ran through a red signal in the fog and collided with another
train at Lewisham, south London.
30 January: Two trains in collision in fog, one having missed danger signals.
Date n/k: Malpasset dam burst
Date n/k: Fire/explosion on tourist boat at a lake near Hadersley (Southern
Jutland)
Date n/k: Fire in a prison
Date n/k: Collision of motorboats
Date n/k: Fire in old people's home
28 March: Fire in a bonded warehouse in Cheapside Street in Anderston.
(Source: http://www.theglasgowstory.co.uk/image.php?
inum=TGSA01950&t=1&urltp=storyf.php&PHPSESSID=c06751f39df83153b111
1f2878463f79)
Date n/k: Air crash
3 June: Edinburgh-King's Cross express derailed at speed on a bend.
26 December: Glasgow-Euston express in collision with stationary Liverpool-
Birmingham train. In the confusion there was a delay of almost an hour before
the first ambulance was on scene. Seriousness of accident not initially
appreciated.
Date n/k: Tidal wave and flooding in Hamburg: more than 100,000 people
affected, 50 dyke bursts
Date n/k: Collapse of roofing of the Cais Sodre railway station in Lisboa
Date n/k: Ammonium nitrate explosion
Date n/k: Air crash
Date n/k: Explosion in chemical plant in Roenland (Western Jutland)
Date n/k: Explosion at gasworks in Copenhagen - extensive damage
Date n/k: Collision of a tug and a motorboat
Date n/k: Explosion in an ammunition depot
21 October: 116 children and 26 adults died under a torrent of slurry from a
colliery waste tip.
28 February: Two trains in collision when one stopped in the path of the other.
31 July: King's Cross-Edinburgh express in collision with derailed cement
wagons.
5 November: Hastings-Charing Cross train derailed at speed by a broken rail.
18 March: Oil slick from Torrey Canyon along the Breton and English coasts:
pollution at numerous points on both coasts
22 May: Fire in department store, L'Innovation
Date n/k: Railway accident at Odense (Funen)
6 January: Manchester-Euston express in collision with an enormous
transformer being escorted across a level crossing.
18 November: Fire in upholstery factory in James Watt Street. (Source:
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA01964)
7 May: Kings Cross-Aberdeen express derailed at speed.
Date n/k: Explosion in a dynamite factory
30 November: Motorway: multiple pile up in fog.
2 July: School party special train derailed. The two fatalities were school
children.
2 January: Collapse of stairway 13 at Ibrox Park.
21 October: Gas explosion in Busby Road - passing bus took full force of blast.
More than half the shops disappeared.
April: Methane gas explosion at Cynheidre colliery, Carmarthenshire
21 June: Coach in collision with a car. Casualties taken to hospital.
11 June: High speed derailment in station.
19 June: BEA Trident bound for Brussels crashed soon after take off at Staines.
Date n/k: Tank lorry accident in Simmersted (Southern Jutland): massive phenol
pollution in the water supply system and environmental damage to the streams
in the area
Date n/k: Dredger sank
2 August: A fire in the Summerland leisure complex. 48 DoA, 70 patients
treated for burns and other injuries. 32 admitted.
19 December: Derailment at speed of a Paddington-Oxford train. 650
passengers on board.
8 March: IRA terrorist car bomb exploded. Casualties included 10 police
officers. The one fatality was a civilian who died later in hospital.
8 March: IRA terrorist car bomb exploded. Injured included a party of school
children.
July: Lift cage crashed down 1400ft shaft at Markham colliery
May: Roof fall at Seafield Colliery, Kirkcaldy, Fife
29 November: Fire in Taiyo department store
Date n/k: Hotel fire in Copenhagen
December: Train derailed in Ealing, west London
Date n/k: Large fire at oil tank farm
5 October: Two IRA bombs exploded - first in the Horse and Groom Public
House and the second 30 minutes later at the Seven Stars. Three casualties
conveyed to hospital. Forty two admitted and one subsequently died in hospital.
Four dead at the scene.
21 November: Two IRA bombs exploded in public houses in centre of
Birmingham.
19 December: Car bomb.
1 June: Nypro plant explodes. 100 homes destroyed. 3000 evacuated.
November: Eight sailors exposed to arsine. All very ill, 4 developing renal
failure.
Date n/k: Collision of lorry and Dutch coach
1 February: Joelma Building - high rise office complex carrying 800 employees
caught fire.
27 May: Coach plunged off a bridge into a ravine killing 33 elderly people on
coach outing.
6 June: Euston-Glasgow sleeper derailed at speed.
28 February: Underground train hit end of cul-de-sac tunnel at Moorgate
Underground. Three carriages compressed into a space normally occupied by
one. 41 died at the scene with 2 dying later in hospital. A further 83 casualties
were injured, many seriously.
22 August: Boeing 737 caught fire on take off. Of the 137 passengers and
crew, 52 passengers were killed, 85 escaped. Most survivors escaped injury.
15 required admission, 2 with severe burns and the rest for smoke inhalation.
29 May: 39 people, mainly Italian, were killed in rioting involving Liverpool and
Juventus supporters
Date n/k: Tanker explosion
Date n/k: Release of oil during loading in the Port of Naples. UVCE and fire -
2,300 evacuated
Date n/k: Oil slick from the Jan of Bremen: 20 km of marsh polluted at the island
of Laesoe (Kattegat)
21 February: French trawler sank. 16 seamen killed including one rescuer.
1 October: Spanish trawler sinks 200 miles west of Hebrides.
26 July: Bridlington-Hull train hit a truck on level crossing.
19 September: Liverpool-Euston and London-Manchester express trains
collided side on.
25 August: Hurricane Charlie - at least 11 deaths attributed to the storm.
6 November: Chinook helicopter plunged into the North Sea. 47 on board, only
2 survived.
Date n/k: Shipwreck of M/S Karelia
31 October: Fire at Sandoz chemical warehouse in Basel: heavy pollution of the
river Rhine as water used to extinguish the fire became polluted. Many fish
killed and drinking water supplies further downstream had to be shut off.
(Source: UNEP IE/PAC Technical Report No 12 - Hazard identification and
evaluation in a local community)
September: Collision between two express trains at Colwich, Staffordshire
26 April: Release of radioactive material into the atmosphere with expelled hot
materials causing fires. Figures quoted as a result of the immediate aftermath.
(Source: Summary report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the
Chernobyl Accident: IAEA,
26 April: Release of radioactive material into the atmosphere with expelled hot
materials causing fires. Figures quoted as a result of the immediate aftermath.
(Source: Summary report on the Post-Accident Review Meeting on the
Chernobyl Accident: IAEA,
September: Lorry turned through emergency crossover point and collided with
two coaches.
28 October: Petrol tanker crashed into slow moving traffic and overturned.
Fierce fire ensued causing 12 deaths.
18 November: King's Cross Station - Fire in the booking hall of the underground
station.
6 March: The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized after an inrush of water
through the open bow doors. 188 persons killed out of 543 passengers on
board.
19 August: Michael Ryan ran amok in Hungerford killing 16 and injuring 17
others, many seriously.
15 October: Storm force winds caused havoc, millions of trees blown down.
15 January: Tanker spillage at Portswood. 22 taken to hospital and 500
evacuated. Tanker contained toxic pharmaceutical waste.
22 March: Explosion at BP refinery lead to single fatality only because it was a
Sunday morning.
Date n/k: Explosion of tanker holding 36,000 litres of gasoline
8 November: Terrorist bomb at Remembrance Day service
October: Train fell into swollen River Towy after the rail bridge collapsed.
October: Two trains collided at Forest Gate, on the Liverpool Street-London line
21 October: School party from Cator Park School, Kent on cruise ship Jupiter
involved in collision with Adige. On board were 391 schoolchildren; 84 adults
and 110 crew. Two crew members died and a teacher and a child were never
found.
6 July: Piper Alpha explosion - Of a work force of 232, only 65 survived.
August: Two aircraft of the Italian display team collided at Ramstein air show
(newspaper clip/report)
12 December: Three trains involved in collision following signal fault. Out of the
500 injured, 69 were serious injuries.
1 August: IRA bomb exploded in the barracks.
4 March: Collision between two trains with six carriages derailed and deflected
down an embankment. Eighty eight people received hospital treatment of whom
32 were admitted.
September: IRA bomb
Date n/k: Air crash near Helsinki-Vantaa airport
Date n/k: Fire in a 30,000 cubic metre storage tank for isohexane - 600 firemen
responded
Date n/k: Fire in five chemical tank wagons at railway yard
Date n/k: Collision of M/T Tebostar and a Russian fishing boat south of Gotland
25 January: Hurricane force storms kill 45, mainly Wales and West Country.
26 February: Combination of high waves, high surge and high astronomical tide
caused breach of sea defences along North Wales Coast. 6,500 evacuated.
21 August: Tanker overturned, 30,000 litres of fuel spilt into brook and drains.
14 November: Telephone exchange fire robs 23,000 of services and knocks out
public boxes.
7 December: Evacuation from 200 snowbound cars on the A66
19 December: Abnormal blizzards cause 10 deaths
25 June: IRA bomb exploded inside the club. Out of 20 injured, 6 taken to
hospital.
25 January: Hurricane force storm.
29 July: Tokyo Joe's Night Club siege
3 June: British double-deck tourist coach carrying 73 passengers, skidded of a
French motorway near Joigny.
Date n/k: Barge combination capsized off Hanko
11 June: Terrorist explosion at the Honourable Artillery Company Headquarters
in City Road, London. Bomb blast happened during 21st birthday party for son
of member of the TA.
6 April: Fire on board passenger liner "Scandinavian Star" cruising between
Oslo and Fredrikshavn. 99 crew/383 passengers on board. (Source: NOR
1991: 1E - "The Scandinavian Star Disaster of 7 april 1990" main report)
25 March: Arson fire at illegally run Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx.
25 January: Avianca Boeing 707 crashed in Cove Neck, New York on Long
Island after running out of fuel
August 1990: Train driver killed, 35 injured at Stafford station in a two train
crash.
??: Train ran into buffers at Cannon Street Station
??: Head-on crash at Newton station, Glasgow
24 February: Floods up to 5' deep hit high street. 35 families evacuated.
2/8 May: Spring Bank Holiday - 2 tanks containing toxic chemicals washed
ashore - 150 people evacuated
16 May: Freight train carrying diesel, petrol and kerosene explodes after
derailment.
8 January: Slow speed impact with the buffers causing a shock wave along the
train. Thirty seven out of a total of 268 admitted to three hospitals.
11/14 October: Thetford: 1000s warned to stay indoors as toxic fumes swept
over town following fire at D&L Plastics. (Source: newspaper reports)
7 December: Portsmouth-Cardiff Sprinter ran into back of slow moving
Paddington-Cardiff 125.
28 August: Ten-carriage tube train derailed as it switched from express tracks to
local tracks. Driver fled the scene and was later arrested on suspicion of taking
cocaine whilst in the cab.
17 October: Nice-Paris sleeper express collided with goods train head-on at
Melun station.
18 February: IRA bomb exploded on the station concourse in the morning rush
hour.
25 February: Trawler 'Pescado' sank off Cornwall resulting in loss of all six crew.
Date n/k: Explosion and fire on tanker Haven in the gulf of Genova; 110,000
tonnes of crued lost, half of which burnt, the remainder polluting Italian and
French coasts.
Date n/k: Explosion during take-in of petrol by tankers; 10,000 m3 of super,
5,000 m3 of diesel spilled.
Date n/k: Train collision in Melun station.
Date n/k: Collision of ferry with tanker at Livorno: ferry gutted by fire.
Date n/k: Explosion in fireworks factory at Culemborg. Extensive damage.
Date n/k: Fire at DSM chemical plant
27 December: Twin engine McDonnell Douglas MD-80 airliner crashed after
take-off from Stockholm. 122 passengers/7 crew escaped.
1 February: USAir jetliner collided with a commuter plane on Los Angeles Airport
runway
11 April: Italian ferry, Moby Prince, caught fire after colliding with an oil tanker
lying at anchor in thick fog during the night.
December 1991: Two trains bound for Cardiff collided deep inside the railway
tunnel beneath the River Severn.
21 September: Castleford: Explosion at Hickson and Welch chemical plant. In
days following incident, large number of people became ill with gastro-intestinal
symptoms and toxic irritations affecting the skin and mucous membranes.
(Source: HSE report: ISBN 071760702X)
10 April: St Mary Axe, IRA Bomb blasts city offices
8 February: Dimmocks Cote - Train hits lorry on level crossing
16 March: Hundreds evacuated after 18" gas main punctured on A46
18 June: Hunterston - nuclear power station evacuated after fire in a reactor
10 August: St Fergus - explosion rocks Mobil gas reception point
2 December: Coal tip collapses and covers grounds of a comprehensive school,
six miles from Aberfan
20 November: Windsor Castle - fire destroys state apartments (Source:
newspaper reports)
25 November: 12-coach Ramsgate-Charing Cross service struck glancing blow
by the train from Charing Cross-Tunbridge Wells at London Bridge.
15 November: German passenger train smashed into derailed freight wagon in
Northeim on the main north-south line between Frankfurt & Hamburg.
5 May: Terrace collapse in Furiani stadium during Bastia-Marseilles football
match, a semi final for the French Cup.
Date n/k: Explosion/fire at CINDU chemical plant in Uithoorn
4 October: El Al Boeing 747 cargo aircraft en route Schipol Airport to Tel Aviv
crashed onto block of flats.
17 April: Kenyan military plane crashed on to a block of flats shortly after take-
off. 40 air force personnel + 5 people on the ground killed.
July 31: San Francisco-bound Lockheed TriStar veered off runway at John F
Kennedy airport, New York, and burst into flames. 280 passengers + 12 crew
escaped with only 18 receiving minor injuries.
31 July: Thai Airways International jet from Bangkok crashed on approach to
Kathmandu airport.
31 July: Chinese Yak-42 airline crashed on take off from Nanjing airport carrying
116 passengers + 10 crew.
13 March: Super Puma helicopter carrying Shell oil workers to accommodation
vessel Safe Supporter crashed into sea.
21 December: DC-10 carrying 327 Dutch holiday-makers + 13 crew to Portugal
crashed on landing at Faro.
22 December: Libyan Boeing 727 on internal flight to Tripoli crashed near Souk
al-Sabt. Witnesses say it collided with Libyan military plane with their crew
parachuting to the ground.
26 April: Ten motorcycle fans (one British) were killed in a series of road
accidents after taking part in impromptu races.
February: Train jack-knifed 1000ft below ground at Wearmouth colliery.
20 June: Gas explosion on BP-operated Miller installation, 180 miles north-east
of Aberdeen.
10 August: Explosion at St Fergus plant near Peterhead. 60 people at the
terminal but no-one injured. One man treated for shock. Glast devastated new
Mobil oil complex.
November: Five boys aged six to 16 and a woman suffered minor injuries when
a school minibus skidded off the road on black ice at Carleton Rode, Norfolk.
20 June: About a pint of radio-active coolant being piped from HMS Repulse to
a tank spilt on the deck. Three sailors working on deck were sprayed by liquid
and were subsequently decontaminated.
25 July: Two MiG fighters collide mid-air in front of a 250,000 crowd at RAF
Fairford International Air Tattoo. Pilots ejected safely but suffered spinal
compression and cuts - 15 spectators treated for shock.
27 May: RAF Hercules transporter crashes into mountain. All 9 crew killed.
18 August: Bilsthorpe - roof collapse kills 3 miners.
12 September: Publicity draws hundreds to watch demolition of tower blocks.
Flying debris kills one woman and injures 4
6 September: Fire destroys a Sun Valley poultry process block the size of three
football pitches.
6 September: Sowerby Bridge - lorry pushes van into newsagents and two
homes.
10 November: Faversham - coach crash on M2 kills 9 American tourists and the
British driver. 36 others injured
29 August: Fire on board casino ship, New Orient Express. More than 500
passengers/crew rescued by RN vessel, three fire-fighting ships and 18 police
launches.
13 September: Controlled explosion to demolish 22-storey tower block caused
death of one woman and injured 4 others.
4 June: Half a mile of cliff and the Holbeck Hall Hotel slide into the North Sea
10 June: Severe flooding along North Wales coast caused by abnormal rainfall.
10 June: Torrential rainfall resulted in flooding in many areas of Cornwall. Five
inches of rain fell in 9 hours in the south-west.
24 November: 20,000 evacuated from the Underground after power failure
5 January: Braer ran aground resulting in 9 mile oil slick
15 January: North Muirton - River Tay floods homes to depths of 6'
23 January: Braefoot Bay - 35,000 tonne LPG tanker drifts helplessly in gale
10 February: News breaks 36 hours later of radioactive leak from chimney.
Media storm.
21 February: North Sea accommodation barge breaks free in bad weather. 400
oilmen evacuated
20 March: IRA bomb blasts town centre killing two boys
23 April: Oil depot blasted by IRA bomb
19 March: Tanker driver died when his lorry, carrying kerosene, veered off M56
at Preston Brook, Cheshire landing on Liverpool-London line and exploded.
4(?) June 1993: Cliff outside Holbeck Hall Hotel collapsed into sea. 80 guests
evacuated as structural damage occurred in hotel. (NB: Little info available in
library - newspaper cutting in 'Avalanches and Landslides')
20 December: Fire at discotheque. Teenagers died trapped behind padlocked
emergency exits.
26 May: Twin-engine Cessna Citation 550 crashed onto motorway & burst into
flames while trying to land at Eastleigh airport during thunderstorm. Pilots + 3
men from cars injured. Plane was carrying no passengers.
25 July: MiG Jets collide at Fairford air show - pilots ejected/suffered minor
injuries. 12 spectators treated for shock.
10 November: Coach carrying American & Canadian tourists to Canterbury
plunged down embankment on M2 in Kent.
September: School bus driver and teenage pupil killed in collision between
school bus and wagon near Wilberfoss. (newspaper clip of road accidents on
A1079 York-Hull road)
21 February: 385 oil workers airlifted from flotel 150 miles off Aberdeen, after it
jettisoned its anchors in bad weather.
13 January: 82 oil workers airlifted from North Sea platform after oil leak
prompted fears of fire & pollution scare
23 January: Residents of The Shore, Aberdour advised by Coastguard to
evacuate children as 34,800-tonne liquid petroleum gas tanker drifted helplessly
into Aberdour Bay.
25 August: Roof collapse at Bilsthorpe colliery
10 May: Fire in doll factory.
13 January: Chemical plant blast at Abril Industrial Waxes factory, Pyle, near
Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan
11 May: Fire in toy factory caused building to collapse
7 May: Fire at Littlewoods store, Chesterfield.
22 December: Gas pipe explosion near A74 Glasgow-Carlisle road. Burst
caused North Sea gas to gush out of an 80ft crater at Palaceknowe.
2 July: Muslim fundamentalists set fire to hotel in protests against Salman
Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses"
1 January: New Year celebrations turned into stampede killing 20 young adults
and teenagers.
22 September: Twelve Britons among 206 passengers on board train from Los
Angeles to Miami when it crashed on bridge.
18 March: Ambulance crews treated 30 girls - aged 13-16 - for effects of
hysteria & hyperventilation at East 17 concert at Barbican Centre
1 January: River Lavant floods historic town
1 February: Explosion and fire followed leak of ethyl chloride from Associated
Octel plant. One person overcome by fumes.
1 April: Steel gantry falls onto funfair water chute ride and kills nine year old boy.
5 May: Blaze at hostel in breach of fire regulations kills woman and baby girl.
3 June: Chinook crashes into remote hillside. 29 killed including many security
experts.
June: Toxic chemical spill in warehouse injures 45.
7 July: LPG lorry crashes causing fire and explosions.
24 July: Lightning strikes Texaco oil refinery causing explosions and fire which
lasts 36 hours
4 August: GATX, Avonmouth. 3 CIMAH sites hit by simultaneous explosions.
13 August: Runaway diesel engine collides with InterCity train.
24 August: High streets hit by incendiary devices.
25 August: Sally Star ferry flounders in Channel after fire breaks out in an
engine. 100 rescued.
27 November: 20 evacuated due to chemical fire at Davidson's Veterinary
Supplies store which produced cyanide gas cloud
7 December: Hundreds of gallons of diesel polluted 16 miles of Dee tributary.
Dee is source of drinking water for 2 million.
8 December: Canal bursts banks to flood 19 properties.
10-11 December: Heavy rains cause extensive flooding. Between 2000-3000
people helped.
21 December: Boeing 737 crash lands at airport after hitting electricity pylon.
19 August: Bush fires sweep through Malvern Hills. Blaze scorched 4 sq miles
of countryside. Army called in to help 200 fire-fighters. 25 homes evacuated.
11 November: Two trains crashed. More than 200 passengers had to climb
over tracks to safety.
17 July: Town hit by acid alert. Hundreds of people trapped in their homes after
20 tonnes of hydrochloric acid leaked from tank at chemical plant. 60 fire-
fighters from East Sussex battled to clear up the pollution.
1 April: Romanian Airbus crashes on outskirts of Bucharest.
28 April: Gas explosion in S Korea's third largest city. Blast at a subway
construction site in central Taegu took place in rush-hour.
28 May: 2,977 inhabitants. 2,200 victims buried. 406 found alive. 1841 dead.
17 June: Holiday coach crash
29 June: Shopping Mall collapsed. Two days later, 240 still missing.
26 July: 9lb bomb blast in underground.
28 April: Cliff-side viewing platform collapsed into gorge at Cave Creek.
Designed to carry weight of 10 people - 18 on it when it gave way.
31 January: Guard killed/30 injured in accident at Aisgill on Settle/Carlisle
railway.
4 December: Fire in karaoke bar
17 April: Fire in unlicensed karaoke parlour
15 February: Fire at karaoke parlour/restaurant
23 December: Fire in public hall caused by electrical short circuit/explosion of
gas cylinder killed at least 425 people, half of them children, at annual prize-
giving.
17 September: Explosion/fire started in indoor market, spread through town
centre properties. Hundreds of holiday-makers evacuated from hotels/guest
houses.
23 May: Coach carrying Royal British Legion pensioners plunged of M4 and
overturned.
5 July: Coach on trip to Stratford on Avon overturned on roundabout at Raglan,
South Wales.
10 July: Double-decker, Alicante-based coach carrying 57 teenagers overturned
near Avignon. 2 coach company directors arrested after discovery that drivers
had broken work rules & speed limits.
10 July: Lorry ploughed into coach trying to turn onto motorway access road at
Troussey
31 December: Fire in the Switel Hotel at New Year's eve
13 December: Racially motivated riots in Brixton area of London.
20 March: Nerve gas sarin released on Tokyo underground - 5000-6000 people
exposed
September: Man entered school by back door whilst deliveries being made,
claimed he had a gun. By the time help arrived he had gone.
October: Peter Starrs, mental patient, threatened to "do a Dunblane".
October: Gunman fired an air rifle into Craigmuir Primary School classroom with
three- and four-year-old children.
8 July: Horrett Campbell carried out machete attack on nursery school children
at St Luke's Infant School in Blakenhall. Teacher, Lisa Potts along with three
young children and three mothers received horrific injuries.
February 1996: Loss by South West Water of water to the sea during the
previous summer creates headlines.
15 February: Sea Empress ran aground off St Anne's Head. 150,000 tonnes of
crude oil spilt over next 10 days.
19 February: Tankers crash on A19 and spill highly toxic chemicals into nearby
brook. A19 closed for 4 days.
18 February: Bus blown apart in Wellington Street by IRA bomb.
18 February: IRA bomb accidentally explodes on board London bus. Police
found explosives in the home & garden of IRA bomber in Lewisham. Homes in
immediate area evacuated. Fatality = IRA terrorist.
8 March: Two freight trains collide.
13 March: Thomas Hamilton entered Dunblane Primary School and shot/injured
pupils/staff before committing suicide. (Source: The Public Inquiry into the
Shootings at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996: The Hon Lord
Cullen)
26 June: Grand Hotel - fire. 90 fire-fighters using 17 fire appliances fought the
blaze. All guest safely evacuated. No casualties.
18 February: Flats in Carlisle Road unsafe due to partial collapse of scaffolding.
10 occupants evacuated to Sackville Hotel.
27 February: 120-vehicle in two separate crashes which took place in sudden
fog at the same spot on the E17 motorway between Antwerp & Lille. Vehicles
caught fire
26 August: 117 passengers rescued off French owned catamaran Trident Seven
en route from Guernsey to Jersey.
10 February: Toyohama tunnel on northern Japanese island of Hokkaido
collapsed under a rockslide, trapping a busload of people in rubble & icy mud.
Estimated 22 people in the bus and one car.
15 December: 68,000-ton grain freighter 'Bright Field' collided into crowded
riverside shopping centre/hotel.
28 June: Russian cruise ship 'Alla Tarasova' carrying 71 passengers/68 crew
broke down off-shore en-route from Leith-Kirkwall in Orkney. Rescue services
assisted and ship finally limped into Peterhead.
15 July: Belgian Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed at Eindhoven Air Base.
19 March: Fire in crowded night spot killed 160, mostly teenagers celebrating
the start of the school holidays.
27 February: Fire in karaoke club
16 June: Crowd surge at Zambia-Sudan football match
16 October: Crowd surge at stadium before a World Cup qualifying match.
18 November: Fire broke out in train. 30 evacuated from freight shuttle which
was halted 8 miles from France.
29 March: Fire in department store killed 77 - thought figure might rise to 200.
4 February: Ninety people escaped when an explosion and fire rocked 13-storey
tower block in Manchester.
11 April: Fire at Dusseldorf international airport. (Disaster report/newspaper clip)
3 October: Blaze at chemical compound at Albright & Wilson.
21 November: Fire in 16-storey commercial building - started in lift shaft and
engulfed almost every floor. Fire burnt for nearly 22 hours.
8 August: North London Railways (now Silverlink) passenger train passed signal
at danger and collided with empty coaching stock train at Watford South
Junction, Hertfordshire. (HSE Rpt from Internet)
11 May: VluJet flight crashed into swamp. Cargo fire caused by oxygen
generators missing safety caps.
7 February: Boeing 757 carrying German tourists home from Caribbean crashed
into sea shortly after take off from Puerto Plata
23 February: 2 RN aircrew died when their Sea-Harrier T-4 jump-jet crashed on
training flight in thick fog near Churchstanton, Somerset
11 May: ValuJet Airlines DC-9 aircraft on internal flight crashed in Everglades
National Park, Florida - in inaccessible swampland
15 July: Belgian C-130 Hercules carrying members of a Dutch military band
crashed on landing at Eindhoven airport
29 August: Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft crashed into a mountain on approach
to airport at Spitzbergen. Most of victims were coalminers and their families
returning from holiday.
9 October: Russian Antonov cargo plane crashed into a village near Turin
airport. 20 people on board survived.
12 November: Mid-air collision near New Delhi between Saudi Arabian Airlines
jet and an incoming KazAir Ilyushin IL-76 freighter seven minutes after the Saudi
jumbo had taken off from New Delhi.
24 November: Hijacked Boeing 767 crashed into sea off Cormoros Islands
28 April: Gunman (Martin Bryant), using military-style weapon, shot and killed 35
people on shooting rampage at Port Arthur. (Source: Port Arthur Seminar
Papers - 11-12 March 1997)
16 October: Crushing incident at a World Cup qualifying fixture between
Guatemala and Costa Rica at the Mateo Flores Stadium. (Source: Football
Licensing Authority Inspectorate report: Chalmers JA & Froggatt JW Dip Arch
Dip Arch Cons RIBA: December 1996)
12 January: Italy's high-speed train 'Pendelino' derailed at Piacenza, 30 miles
south of Milan
1 April: Express from Barcelona to Malaga derailed near Guadalajara.
31 March: Train from Barcelona to the Basque town of Irun, on the French
frontier, derailed about 20 miles from Pamplona. Reports stated the train was
travelling at 85mph on track with 18mph speed limit
20 November: Freight train pulling tankers full of petrol & heating oil derailed &
exploded as it travelled through Elsterwerda station. 2 fire-fighters killed & 3
rescue workers seriously injured.
10 July 1997: Landslide caused by recent earthquakes, collapsed during
torrential rain. Tons of mud & rocks swept over the village as people slept.
30 July 1997: Landslide about 50ft wide and swept at least 650ft down side of
hill at Thredbo, 250 miles south-west of Sydney.
2 November: 100-vehicle pile up in fog on A12 between Chelmsford and Marks
Tey, near Colchester. 1000 vehicles gridlocked as rescuers cleared 15 mile
stretch of road.
11 March: 26 vehicles involved in two pile-ups on either side of dual
carriageway at Crathorne, N Yorks.
10 March: 110 vehicles involved in three multiple collisions in fog - Alvechurch,
H&W.
27 October: 3,000 tonne dredger Sand Kite crashed into the Thames Barrier
and partially sank in dense fog.
28 December: United Airlines jumbo jet bound for Honolulu with 393 people
aboard his massive turbulence.
12 August: Twin Squirrel helicopter & Katana DV 20 motor glider crashed after
mid-air collision.
10 March: Three multiple collisions in dense fog involving 110 vehicles on M42
left 3 dead and 62 injured.
29 September: Tourist coach & several trucks among more than 100 vehicles
involved in 4 separate crashes near Rouen on the A-13 motorway which runs
between Paris and Caen.
13 August: Bus hit rear of truck carrying corn that was turning onto the RN10
highway between Bayonne & Bordeaux.
2 November: 60+ vehicles in pile-up in dense fog on A12 between Chelmsford &
Marks Tey
27 October: 3,000-tonne dredger 'Sand Kite' collided into the Thames Barrier in
dense fog. Crew of ten evacuated safely but two required treatment for minor
injuries.
4 October: Cruise ship 'Romantica' carrying 500 passengers including 120
Britons caught fire.
14 July: Footbridge collapsed as 370-strong Australian squad was making its
entrance for ceremonial opening of Maccabiah Games.
7 May: Scaffolding collapsed onto Glasgow's Byres Road trapping a number of
people in shops & offices.
16 April: Armed men burst into discotheque and set it on fire with petrol.
24 January: Fire broke out in engine room of Thames ferry, The Wilkins
Micawber, off Cuckold's Point at Deptford.
12 August: Pilot of microlight aircraft killed when his machine crashed after take-
off.
11 August: Pilot & passenger of S Yorks based helicopter killed when it crashed
in a field near M6 near Carnforth in Lancs. They were carrying out routine aerial
gas pipeline checks for Transco.
20 July: Hot air balloon crash landed onto electricity cables, disintegrated in ball
of fire near Humber Bridge, East Yorkshire
28 December: 1000 people evacuated from their homes as 60 tons of vinyl
chloride monomer was moved from an overturned freight wagon near Cadaxton
station.
21 May: Cruise ship 'Sun Vista' suffered engine fire and sank. Over 1,000
passengers/crew escaped.
19 March: 200 people evacuated from homes in Dunnet Head after the multitank
'Ascania' carrying 1700+ tonnes of vinyl acetate caught fire. All 15 crew
members airlifted to safety.
11 November: 30-year old, five-storey, block of flats collapsed.
8 July: Fire on the ferry "Princess Ragnhild" carrying 1,167 passengers/172
crew. 70-year old lady died later of heart failure.
30 October: Fire at karaoke bar
22 October: Fires swept through two Austrian discos where patrons were
dancing ankle-deep in polystyrene chips.
23 June: Virgin express carrying 132 passengers travelling on West Coast line
ran into back of local train. Driver prevented disaster by applying brakes &
spraying sand onto tracks. Only 4 injured detained in hospital.
19 August: Two men died in suspected chemicals leak at ENG Ltd, West
Bromwich.
1 July: 20 staff travelling to an international Alpine observatory died in St
Etienne-en-Dzoluy in the Hautes Alps when a cable car plunged 250 ft to the
ground after a cable broke near the top of the lift
29 May: Fire in the Tauern Tunnel in the Austrian Alps caused by lorry carrying
paint chemicals being hit be another vehicle.
24 March: Belgian truck carrying margarine and flour broke out into flames in the
MontBlanc tunnel, trapping dozens of cars. Victims asphyxiated by carbon
monoxide and then incinerated as vehicles exploded (newspaper clip/Disaster
Management & Preparedne
18 June: Incident involving two vehicles at automatic barrier level crossing at
Cookham Station (HSE Rpt from Internet)
18 October: Passenger train from Victoria to Hastings collided with train of
empty coaches at Lewes. (HSE Rpt from Internet)
23 June: Virgin Trains Euston to Glasgow express collided with rear end of First
North Western Crewe to Manchester empty coaching stock train at Winsford
South Junction. (HSE Rpt from Internet)
8 January: Thameslink Brighton to Bedford train collided with Connex South
Eastern train from Dover Priory to London Charing Cross at Spa Road near
London Bridge. (HSE Rpt from Internet)
24 February: Russian-made Tupolev 154 crashed near Wenzhou after report of
mid-air explosion
23 August: McDonnell Douglas MD-11 - on landing, engine fired, plane flipped
and skidded to a halt upside down. 300 people escaped with 101 of those
walking away unhurt.
1 September: Boeing 737 crashed in flames on take-off.
3 September: 11-seater Cessna bound for Palma crashed and exploded after
take-off
15 September: Boeing 757 crashed while landing - passengers jumped to safety
but Spanish air traffic controllers unaware of crash. Emergency services took
an hour to arrive.
31 October: Boeing 767-300 vanished from radar 50 minutes after leaving John
F Kennedy airport.
22 December: Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed soon after take-off from Stansted
3 October: Fire destroyed derelict 112-year old Hogg of Hawick knitwear factory.
Injured man had been watching the fire and was assaulted by 4 youths.
1999: London riots
28 May: 54 Pop fans - mainly 14-18 year olds - crushed when high-heeled girls
fleeing a downpour slipped on wet steps. (
27 December: Race meeting abandoned after car bomb threat, 20,000
evacuated (newspaper clip of 7/1/01 reporting evacuation of Uttoxeter)
30 April: Nail bomb explosion in Soho area of London. Indications that the
device was similar to bombs used in previous two weeks in Brixton and Brick
Lane which injured 44 people.
22 October: Hawk aircraft from RAF Leeming crashed near A6 at Shap,
Cumbria killing its 2 crew.
3 February: 15 children + 5 adults on Prince's Trust sailing day. One dinghy
overturned trapping one person underneath.
21 May: Fire on board luxury liner ‘Sun Vista’ travelling from Phuket in Thailand
to Singapore. 1092 passengers/crew on board - spent 6 hours in the water
before help arrived.
24 August: Collision between luxury liner Norwegian Dream carrying 2500
passengers/crew and container ship Ever Decent carrying toxic substances,
followed by fire on Ever Decent.
5 October: Two trains collided at Ladbroke Grove, just outside Paddington
station.
23 June: London-Glasgow Virgin rail train collided with a stationary local train
near Winsford, Cheshire.
17 July: Boeing 737-200 crashed into houses short of the runway at Patna whilst
pilot tried to make emergency landing.
23 August: Airbus A320 crashed while trying to land with apparent engine fire.
27 August: Europe's highest tower, the 1771 ft Ostankino TV building in Moscow
caught fire. The dead were trapped in a lift.
27 April: P&O vessel 'Aquitaine' carrying 1,241 passengers/123 crew struck its
berth in Calais. 30 suffered 'minor injuries'.
20 May: Concrete footbridge collapsed on to Highway 29 at Concord, NC as
fans were leaving a stock car race.
3 April: Workers killed when the building in which they were working collapsed.
16 April: Bombs with toxic gas were thrown into a crowded night-club provoking
panic.
24 March: Wall collapsed at a packed disco after a teargas canister went off,
sparking a stampede.
7 July: Fans surged towards stage during Roskilde Festival. 26 required medical
attention.
13 May: 100 tonnes fireworks & other explosives detonated after a fire in factory
of SE Fireworks situated in the middle of housing estate of Mekkelholt in
northern Dutch city of Enschede.
5 June: Eurostar travelling at 155 mph & carrying 501 passengers from Paris to
London partially derailed in northern France.
7 February: Hi-jacked Afghan airliner arrived Stansted with 160 hostages.
16 May: BA flight from Manchester to Belfast developed problems with
undercarriage. Pilot circled for three hours to burn off excess fuel before making
successful emergency landing.
June: Two electric trains, both equipped with radios, collided on a single-track
line in a 100-yard tunnel near the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain.
11 November: Fire on board a funicular train in the Kitzteinhorn tunnel.
October: Two teenage girls died on school field trip in Yorkshire Dales.
25 July: Air France Concorde bound for New York crashed into a hotel just
outside Paris just after take-off
26 September: Ferry, "Express Samina" carrying 500 passengers hit rocks in
force eight gale and sank.
9 July: Police caused stampede by firing tear-gas near end of football match
between Zimbabwe & S Africa.
8 August: Terrorist bomb exploded in pedestrian subway under Pushkin Square
at height of rush hour.
8 August: Car bomb explosion in Madrid - 12 hours after four members of
separatist group ETA were killed transporting another bomb in Balbo and a
Basque businessman was killed by a second bomb.
28 August: Notting Hill Carnival - 2 men murdered
2 April: 100 people involved in violence after football match between
Birmingham City/Wolverhampton Wanderers. 2 men suffered head injuries -
one left in critical condition.
25 December: Partygoers trapped in disco fire.
29 December: Man broke into cockpit of Nairobi bound Boeing 747-4000 and
tried to crash the plane. He was overpowered and crew regained control.
1 June: Light aircraft carrying jockeys Frankie Detorri and Ray Cochrane
crashed at Newmarket. Pilot killed.
13 June: Air ambulance crashed into River Mersey killing the patient, his wife,
two nurses and the pilot.
October: Boeing 747 burst into flames shortly after take-off during storm and
crashed at Tai Pai - 179 on board, 65+ dead
8 September: Coach carrying British elderly holidaymakers crashed in Tonopah,
Nevada.
18 March: Four teenage girls crushed to death when panic erupted in a 1500-
strong crowd waiting to see British boy band a1.
12 March: Two London-bound trains collided at Hither Green station in
Lewisham during morning rush hour.
11 April: Crowd surge into Ellis Park stadium during football match between
Kaizer Chiefs/Orlando Pirates
16 April: Explosion involving LPG at Conoco, third biggest British oil refinery at
South Killingholme, near Immingham. 200 ft plume visible ten miles away.
10 May: Police fired teargas grenades into football crowd causing panic leading
to death of 130 people.
24 May: Third floor of the Versailles banqueting hall collapsed as 650 guests
celebrated wedding. Nine people taken into custody including building's 4
owners, engineers and inventor of cheap method of construction.
27 September: Friedrich Leibacher entered Swiss assembly firing randomly with
an assault rifle then shot himself.
3 July: Fire in 15-storey block of seaside flats. RAF Sea King involved in rescue
of residents
22 July: 8 children/2 elderly women crushed returning from firework festival.
Poor safety precautions/fight between local youths among causes for incident
which occurred when spectators panicked on footbridge.
7 July: Storms across France uprooted tree which fell onto spectators at outdoor
concert
24 June: 28 rescued from Corkscrew ride at Alton Towers after being stranded
12ft off the ground.
24 October: Fire caused by crash about a mile from southern exit of Gotthard
Tunnel.
8 November: Explosion and fire at furnace number 5 at Port Talbot steelworks
12 November: Two months after terrorist attack on WTC, Airbus A300 crashed
into New York suburb of Queens killing all on board plus more on the ground.
28 February: Vehicle leaves M62, lands on main east coast railway line. 0559
GNER York-Kings X collides and in turn crashes into oncoming freight train. Six
passengers & four railway staff died: 76 people taken to hospital
8 December: 150 people were evacuated from clubs, bars and flats as fire
spread through Old Town, Edinburgh.
2 January: 150 residents evacuated from two seaside villages in Cornwall after
oil tanker ran aground and was in danger of exploding
12 April: Fire at Distillex Chemical Plant - second incident in nine weeks
(previous one a chemical leak) - no-one injured but hundreds of families
evacuated.
10 May: 1245 WAGN service from King's Cross to King's Lynn derailed at
Potters Bar.
26 April: Robert Steinhauser shot and killed 13 teachers, 2 students and a
policeman before shooting himself in Erfurt school.
2 June: Fire at Buckingham Palace during preparation for Golden Jubilee
concert.
2 June: Pilot of a two-seater jet trainer was killed when his Czech-built L-39
trainer aircraft ran off the end of a runway at Duxford and crashed on to M11.
Passenger scrambled from wreckage with minor injuries.
8 June: Twelve Women's Institute members treated for serious injuries & 31 hurt
when their bus hurtled out of control down a steep hill known as The Struggle in
the Lake District.
17 May: Fire on board North Sea Ferry "Princess of Scandinavia" - en route
from Newcastle to Sweden - 150 miles south east of Aberdeen and carrying
almost 900 passengers
4 April: 3,500 guests from Center Parcs in Elveden Forest, Suffolk evacuated
when fire swept through main complex.
29 March: 30-vehicle pile-up in fog on A1 near Boroughbridge.
16 July: 11 oil men killed when helicopter crashed into North Sea close to Shell-
Esso rig on the Leman Field off Norfolk Coast (newspaper reports)
27 July: Su-27 fighter jet crashed into crowds at an air show in Ukraine. Death
toll included at least five children, predicted to be the world's worst air-display
disaster.
1 July: Collision between a Russian charter Tupolev 154 airliner carrying 69
people, including 52 teenagers and other children, and a Boeing 757 operated
by the parcel company DHL. (newspaper reports)
6 November: Fire broke out on German-owned train heading from Paris to
Vienna near eastern French city Nancy
16 November: Coach, with 43 passengers and two drivers was returning to
Worcestershire after a day trip to Boulogne when it left the M25 between
junctions 15 and 16.
2 August: Farnbrough air show - Harrier GR7 jump jet crashed into sea during
display - pilot ejected safely
28 March: 100-vehicle pile-up in fog on M40 at Tame. One of the dead was the
motorcyclist involved in original 2-vehicle collision.
28 March: M5 near Weston super Mare. Lorry smashed through central
reservation into oncoming traffic taking a car with it.
29 March: Jack-knifed caravan involved in 30 vehicle pile-up followed by other
crashes involving 50-60 vehicles in total on A1 near Boroughbridge, N Yorks.
Road closed for 12 hours while vehicles were removed.
25 April: Tanker carrying sulphuric acid collided with lorry on A19 on Teesside.
Both drivers trapped but not seriously injured.
16 November: M25 near Heathrow. Coach travelling from day trip in France
back to Evesham, Worcestershire crashed. Two of the dead were the drivers of
the coach.
17 July: Students and teachers from a Newcastle school got into difficulty during
end of term beach party. Newbiggin lifeboat + 2 other boats/helicopter involved
in rescue. One x 13-year old kept in hospital for observation.
18 February: Freight wagons carrying petrol, sulphur, fertiliser and cotton wool
rolled unmanned away from station and derailed at Neyshabur. Fire-fighters
almost had fire under control when explosion occurred causing multi
deaths/injuries.
11 May: Explosion at Stockline Plastics factory in Glasgow. (Source: newspaper
reports)
23 May: Charles De Gaulle airport - 160ft section of Terminal 2E airport roof
collapsed. Building only 11 months old, built at cost of £500 million. (Source:
newspaper reports)
24-26 May: Fire at Momart warehouse in east London destroyed millions of
pounds worth of art spanning 50 years work (Source: newspaper reports)
1 August: Fire spread through supermarket in Ascunsion. (Source: newspaper
reports)
16 August: Residents airlifted to safety and motorists stranded when flash floods
triggered by torrential rain hit Boscastle. (Source: newspaper reports)
1 September: Chechen rebels hold schoolchildren and their families hostage for
three days. (Source: newspaper reports)
6 November: London-Plymouth express crashed into car which had stopped on
level crossing at Upton Nervet. (Source: newspaper reports)
8 October: Two suicide bombers drove truck into front of the Taba Hilton, on
Egypt's border with Israel. (Source: newspaper reports)
26 December: Undersea earthquake in Indian Ocean sent tsunami to seven
countries in Asia: Sri Lanka; Indonesia; India; Thailand; Malaysia; Somalia;
Maldives killing around 226,000 people and leaving millions destitute. (Source:
newspaper reports & New Scientist magazine)
January: Severe storms caused widespread flooding, especially in Carlisle and
with hurricane force winds causing much damage including sweeping away a
family of five into the sea in Scotland as they tried to get away from their home.
(Source: newspaper reports)
21 March: 16-year old schoolboy Jeff Weise shot and murdered his
grandparents then went to his school, Red Lake School, Minnesota, and killed
three pupils, a teacher and a security guard before shooting himself. (Source:
newspaper reports)
23 March: Explosion sounding like a sonic boom wrecked a British-owned BP oil
refinery at Texas City, Galveston, and produced a fireball with flames shooting
70ft high. (Source: newspaper reports)
15 April: Fire gutted the six-storey Paris-Opera hotel used by budget tourists
and as short-term accommodation for homelss families. Later reported that it
may have been accidentally started by a woman who had thrown clothes over lit
candles. (Source: newspaper reports)
19 June: Two hours of torrential rain during freak thunder storm resulted in flash
floods over several villages on the North York Moors. (Source: newspaper
reports)
21 July: Four more attempted bombings, similar to those of 7 July. All attempts
failed giving police much forensic material. (Source: (BBC News website)
28 July: A tornado lasting just four minutes hit Birmingham. Wind speeds of
between 115 and 136 miles per hour were recorded. (Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2005/07/28/tornado_feature.s
html)
1 October: Three suicide bombers detonated their bombs in crowded
bars/restaurants on the island of Bali. (Source: newspaper reports)
11 December: Three explosions caused a massive fire that destroyed the
northern half of the 100 acre Buncefield oil depot. Tanks contained a variety of
fuels - unleaded, super unleaded motor spirit, gas oil and ultra low sulphur
diesel (excluding aviation fuel) (Source: newspaper reports)
3 February: Crowded car ferry sank during across the Red Sea. Rescuers
found around 230 survivors from more than 1,400 passengers and crew on
board the Egyptian-owned vessel AlSalam Boccaccio 98. (Source: The Express:
February 4, 2006 Saturday - U.K. 1)
2 January: Weight of snow caused roof to collapse on ice rink (Source:
newspaper reports)
28 January: Weight of snow caused roof to collapse on crowded exhibition hall.
(Source: newspaper reports)
3 July: Speeding underground train ran off the tracks and overturned. (Source:
newspaper reports)
3 December: Explosion at Festival Fireworks, Ringmer. (Source: Crisis
Response Vol 3 Issue 2 p14-15)
7 December: Tornado hit Kensal Rise, London. 200 homes wrecked. (Source:
newspaper reports)
3 January: Aberdeenbound coach overturned near Heathrow on the M4 sliproad
to the M25 (Source: newspaper reports)
January: Worst storms since 1990 battered the UK resulting in death, severe
disruption and damage. (Source: newspaper reports)
23 February: Glasgow bound Virgin train derailed and slid down embankment.
(Source: newspaper reports)
1 August: Bridge over Mississippi collapsed during evening rush hour traffic. At
time of report, 30 people still missing. (Source: newspaper reports)
30 June: Blazing jeep driven into Glasgow airport main terminal in failed terror
attack. Driver of jeep died later in hospital. (Source: newspaper reports)