Gillingham bus disaster
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gillingham-bus-disaster-320-3446701
title:
Gillingham bus disaster
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The Gillingham bus disaster occurred outside Chatham Dockyard, Kent 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, 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 road accident in the UK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillingham_bus_disaster
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2024-03-10T19:33:37Z
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