Car accident

Car accidents are unintentional damaging events involving automobiles. Car accidents can damage one or more autos, people, or structures. Car accidents—also called traffic accidents, auto accidents, road accidents, road traffic accidents (RTA in many police forces' terminology) and motor vehicle accidents—cause thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of disabilities each year.

First Fatality

The first fatality in a steam driven vehicle may have been Mary Ward who on 31 August, 1869 fell under a steam driven car http://www.universityscience.ie/pages/scientists/sci_mary_ward.php.

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Mary Ward - 31 August - 1869

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In the UK the first person to die in a petrol driven car accident was a pedestrian, Bridget Driscoll in 1896. The first driver/passenger deaths occurred on 25 February 1899. A 6 HP Daimler, driven by a 31-year-old engineer named Edwin Sewell, crashed on Grove Hill, a steeply-graded road on the northern slope of Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, now in north-west London. A rear wheel collapsed after breaking its rim and the car hit a sturdy brick wall. Sewell was killed immediately when he and his passenger, a Major Richer, were thrown from the vehicle. Richer died 3 days later in hospital. The spot is now marked with a commemorative plaque.

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UK - Bridget Driscoll - 1896 - 25 February - 1899 - Daimler - Harrow - Middlesex - London

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