List of accidents involving sports teams
This is a list of accidents where all or part of a major sports team had been killed or seriously injured.
Accidents involving other modes of transport
(Click on date for associated article)
31 October 1903 | Purdue University | American football | Train | Indiana, United States | 17 | 14 members of team killed | |
22 January 1927 | Baylor University | Basketball | Bus | Texas, United States | 10 | 10 members of team killed | |
3 October 1936 | L'Aquila Calcio | Association football | Train | Lazio, Italy | 15 | Coach dead and all players forced to quit professional football due to injuries in a train crash in Contigliano, on the Terni–Sulmona railway. Team was relegated never managed to recover the second-tier Serie B league. 15 or more were killed. | [17] |
5 July 1951 | Þór Akureyri | Association football & Athletics | Bus | Óshlíð, Iceland | 2 | 2 members of club killed, one was part of the football team the other was part of the Athletic team | [18] |
3 January 1973 | Vestal High School | Swimming | Bus | New York, United States | 3 | 3 members of the boy's swimming team killed, 15 others injured when the bus skidded on ice and overturned on the Southern Tier Expressway | [19] |
24 November 1974 | Sherbrooke Castors | Ice hockey | Bus | Quebec, Canada | 1 | 1 member of team killed, 29 injured | |
21 January 1984 | Whitefish High School | Wrestling | Bus | Montana, United States | 9 | 9 members of the boy's wrestling team killed, 18 others injured when the bus skidded on ice and collided with a gas tanker truck that was jackknifed in the middle of the road US Highway 2 | [20] |
30 December 1986 | Swift Current Broncos | Ice hockey | Bus | Saskatchewan, Canada | 4 | 4 members of team killed | [21] |
10 May 1987 | Querétaro F.C. | Association football | Bus | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | 3 | 3 members of team killed | [22] |
20 January 1989 | Samsunspor | Association football | Bus | Samsun, Turkey | 5 | 3 players and coach Nuri Asan killed | [23] |
24 January 1992 | University of Notre Dame | Swimming | Bus | Indiana, United States | 2 | 2 members of the women's swim team killed | [24] |
21 May 1992 | California Angels | Baseball | Bus | New Jersey, United States | 0 | manager Buck Rodgers, three coaches, four players and four others injured when bus ran off the New Jersey Turnpike | [25] |
29 January 2005 | Windsor Wildcats U-21 Female Hockey | Ice hockey | Bus | New York, United States | 4 | Team coach, 2 passengers, and truck driver killed, 19 others injured when the team bus veered off the road and hit an illegally parked semi-trailer truck. | [26][27][28] |
2 March 2007 | Bluffton University | Baseball | Bus | Georgia, United States | 7 | 5 members of team killed, 2 bus drivers | |
12 January 2008 | Bathurst High School | Basketball | Van | New Brunswick, Canada | 8 | 7 members of team killed, 1 teacher | |
15 January 2009 | Brasil de Pelotas | Association football | Bus | Canguçu, Brazil | 3 | 2 players and one member of staff killed | [29] |
16 March 2013 | Seton Hill University | Lacrosse | Bus | Pennsylvania, United States | 2 | 1 coach and 1 bus driver killed | [30] |
28 February 2014 | Carleton Ultimate Team | Ultimate | Car | Minnesota, United States | 3 | 3 members of team killed, 2 seriously injured | [31] |
26 September 2014 | North Central Texas College | Softball | Bus | Oklahoma, United States | 4 | 4 members of team killed | |
6 April 2018 | Humboldt Broncos | Ice hockey | Bus | Saskatchewan, Canada | 16 | 10 players, 2 coaches, statistician, radio announcer, athletic trainer, and bus driver killed; 13 injured | [32] |
15 January 2020 | College of the Holy Cross | Rowing | Van | Vero Beach, Florida, United States | 1 | 1 member of the women’s rowing team killed, 7 others injured including 1 coach when the van made a left turn into the path of a truck. | [33] |
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See also
- 2018 Leicester helicopter crash
- 2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu crash
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