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1951 Gillingham bus disaster
Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps
Details
Date
4 December 1951
Location
Gillingham, Kent
Incident type
Bus-pedestrian crash
Cause
Poor lighting.
Statistics
Deaths
24
Injured
18
The Gillingham bus disaster occurred outside Chatham Dockyard, Kent[1] on the evening of 4 December 1951. A double-decker bus ploughed into a company of fifty-two young members of the Royal Marines Volunteer Cadet Corps,[2] aged between nine and thirteen. Twenty-four of the cadets were killed and eighteen injured; at the time it was the highest loss of life in any road accident in British history, until it was surpassed by the 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash which killed 33.
^The administrative boundary between Chatham and Gillingham lies just to the north of Melville Barracks, and the section of Dock Road the children were marching along came under Gillingham.
^. The RMVCC unit there is now the Chatham Marine Cadet Unit
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