An express train traveling about 85 miles an hour crashed into a highway bridge on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 67 people.
The governor suffered more than a dozen broken bones and lost half his blood when his state car, being driven at 91 miles per hour, crashed on the Garden State Parkway a few miles north of the Atlantic City Expressway.
MILE 242: JOHNSTOWN On May 31 , 1889 a 40-foot wall of water, moving at speeds up to 40 miles an hour, crashed into Johnstown, pushing houses, locomotives and the bodies of the dead before it.
They were speeding along the empty road when the taxi hit a long patch of ice and flew off the road at 60 miles an hour, crashing into a stand of trees.
I also scheduled a two-hour crash course with TED's speaking coach, who gave me voice and breath exercises.
Everything I know about Assyrian culture, I learned in a 16-hour crash course on three-inch spike heels".
I was trying to master the basics in a two-hour crash course – hopefully without too much crashing involved.
An eight-hour crash course on leveraged buyouts from Training the Street was so intensive that it "kind of makes you want to slit your wrists," said Michael Rojas, who graduated from Columbia Business School this month.
Commander Neil Basu, the police officer in charge of a massive emergency operation, said it was a miracle that the aftermath of the rush-hour crash was not "many, many times worse".
Indeed, when 200 passengers were injured during a rush-hour crash of a ferry in November 1978 into a seawall, investigators concluded that it was merely good fortune that no one was killed.
