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Multiple Deaths

Eight people are dead and at least five injured after a car hits a group of people watching an illegal race in Prince George's County.
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April 3, 1987: A bride, groom and best man were killed less than an hour after their wedding when their limousine turned into the path of a racer in Nassau County, N.Y.

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Some of the deadliest local traffic accidents:

Aug. 25, 1984: Seven people were killed when a man sped the wrong way down M Street SE and crashed into a bus stop.

Feb. 18, 1981: Eleven people were fatally injured in the crash of a commuter bus on Interstate 95 near Quantico.

April 23, 1979: Ten teenagers were killed when the pickup truck in which they were riding hit a tree and rolled over on Patuxent Road in Anne Arundel County.

-- Meg Smith and Magda Jean Louis


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