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Accidents: roads, mines, explosions and crowds
Accidents with a Wikipedia article that aren’t planes or trains: about 390 road crashes, 380 explosions, 270 mining disasters, 120 industrial accidents and 100 crowd crushes.
Open the live mapWhat you see
- Each accident as a teal disaster mark where it happened, its kind named in its popup and page.
- A page for each, with its date, the deaths and injuries where Wikidata gives them, and its Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1900 to today.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataItems that are road, mining or industrial accidents, explosions or crowd crushes, with a date and a place; 90% have a Wikipedia article.
Taken from Wikidata when the set is imported; an accident added there since appears after the next import.
Good to know
- More than half are from this century.
- Deaths are given for about six in ten; the map draws every accident at one size.
- About a third are placed only at an area.
The first recorded here in each century
Goes well with
Rail accidentsAbout 1,800 train crashes, derailments and other rail accidents recorded in Wikidata, from 1815 to today, each placed where it happened, with the deaths.
Plane crashes and air disastersAbout 2,900 air disasters recorded in Wikidata, from a balloon accident in 1819 to this year’s crashes, each placed where it happened, with the deaths.
Fires and wildfiresAbout 2,000 city fires, building fires and wildfires recorded in Wikidata, from the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE to this year’s, each placed where it burned.