Chappaquiddick incident

When

18 Jul 1969

Kind

Road accident

Coordinates

41.37° N, 70.45° W

Description

car accident in 1969 on Chappaquiddick Island

Deaths

1

Injured

0

1969 car accident and drowning in Massachusetts

The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States, sometime around midnight between July 18 and 19, 1969, when Mary Jo Kopechne died inside the car driven by U.S. senator Ted Kennedy after he accidentally drove off a narrow bridge into Poucha Pond.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Chappaquiddick incident: US Senator Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “エドワード・ケネディ上院議員が飲酒運転の末に自動車事故を起こした際、死体遺棄で大きなスキャンダルとなる（詳細は「チャパキディック事件」を参照）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page