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Notable Events
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- Twelve school children and a teacher died when their minibus crashed into a parked motorway maintenance vehicle just after midnight on 18 November 1993. The inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death for all of the victims but noted that none of the children were wearing seatbelts and that the side-facing bench seating was dangerous.[citation needed] Seatbelts were subsequently made compulsory equipment on all coaches and minibuses (more than 20 years after they had been compulsory on cars).[citation needed] It has been compulsory for passengers to wear seatbelts on coaches and minibuses since 2006.[9]
- A motor cycle rider was shot dead between junctions 13 and 12 on 12 August 2007.[10][11] The victim was a member of the Hells Angels on his way home from the Bulldog Bash.[12] In October 2008, a man pleaded guilty to murder ahead of the trial of six other men on charges of murder and firearms offences.
- Jimmy Davis, a 21-year-old Watford footballer on loan from Manchester United, died on a stretch of the M40 in Oxfordshire in the early hours of 9 August 2003 after his BMWcollided with a lorry. The footballer was over the drink-drive limit and had been driving at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour (190 km/h).[13]
- In 2002 more than 100 vehicles were involved in a pile-up near High Wycombe that resulted in two deaths.[14][15]
- On the 18th July 2012, a woman driver in her sixties died, after being burnt alive, in an inferno sparked by a Porsche, which crashed into back of her car after she broke down in middle lane.[16]
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