Vehicle Ramming Attacks

Here's a list of some of the deadliest vehicle ramming attacks.

2016 Nice truck attack (86 killed + perpetrator, 458 injured)

May 2014 Ürümqi attack (39 killed + 4 perpetrators, 90+ injured)

Xinglong coal mine cinema attack (21 killed, 29 injured)

2010 Hebei tractor rampage (17 killed, 20+ injured)

La Rambla van attack (14 killed, 130 injured)

2016 Berlin truck attack (11 killed, 56 injured)

Toronto van attack (10 killed, 16 injured)

1973 Prague truck attack (8 killed, 12 injured)

2017 New York City truck attack (8 killed, 11 injured)

2009 attack on the Dutch royal family (7 killed + perpetrator, 10 injured)

January 2017 Melbourne car attack (6 killed, 27 injured)

Trier car attack (5 killed, 30 injured)

Inland motel truck attack (5 killed, 16 injured)

2017 Stockholm truck attack (5 killed, 14 injured)

Shimonoseki Station massacre (5 killed, 3 injured)

2001 Isla Vista killings (5 killed, 1 injured)

2017 Westminster attack (4 killed + perpetrator, 49 injured)

2015 OSU homecoming parade crash (4 killed, 46 injured)

2018 Münster attack (4 killed + perpetrator, 20 injured)

2017 Jerusalem truck attack (4 killed + perpetrator, 17 injured)

Karachi International Airport attack (4 killed, 11+ injured)

2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack (3 killed + perpetrator, 40 injured)

2015 Graz attack (3 killed, 34 injured)

Akihabara massacre (3 killed, 2 injured)

Charlottesville car attack (1 killed, 28 injured)

2017 Times Square car crash (1 killed, 20 injured)

2006 San Francisco SUV rampage (1 killed, 18 injured)

2017 Finsbury Park attack (1 killed, 9 injured)

2014 Nantes attack (1 killed, 9 injured)

2014 Jerusalem tractor attack (1 killed + perpetrator, 5 injured)

2017 Heidelberg attack (1 killed, 2 injured)

2018 Tampa car attack (1 killed, 2 injured)

2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack (1 killed + perpetrator, 1 injured)

Volkmarsen ramming attack (154 injured)

2008 Jerusalem BMW attack (1 perpetrator killed, 19 injured)

Ohio State University attack (1 perpetrator killed, 11 injured)

2006 UNC SUV attack (9 injured)

2018 Sunnyvale car attack (8 injured)

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Good assortment of vehicular attacks you have put together detailing many events some may have never come across.

Theres no shortage of such attacks recorded and there's plenty more articles on more obscure or forgotten events.

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Even the Haiti Bus Ramming that killed 38

And many many more we could find and countlessly list on, The motorised vehicle was a great innovation for the world but there is no doubt it doubles as relentless weapon when used as one and this shown by the very history we observe here.

Theres a vast record of these sorts of events and if you look far you'll find arrays of events throughout history and worldwide.


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Raymond Wilson forklift rampage (14 wounded)

1965 Lebanon/Syria truck rampage (14 killed, dozen wounded)

Alfredo Freitas's train rampage (13 killed, 40-77 wounded)

Elias Antonio attack (1 killed, 29+ wounded)

Port Elizabeth ramming (13+ killed, 12 wounded, unclear if deliberate or accident)

Thiago Ventura's car rampage (up to 40 wounded)

1983 Inland Motel Ramming:
On the evening of 18 August 1983, Douglas Crabbe spent an hour at the Inland Motel bar before being refused service for intoxication. The bar was part of the Inland Motel, a short distance from the base of Uluru. It was on the eastern side of the rock, a few minutes walk from the camp site from which Azaria Chamberlain disappeared in 1980 but which had closed by August 1983. Crabbe, then aged 36 walked behind the bar and confronted bar staff before being involved in a fight and being ejected from the premises at 12.30am.

He then walked approximately 500 metres to his parked Mack truck, and drove it to the nearby Uluru Motel, where he unhitched one of two attached trailers. Crabbe then drove the truck and one trailer back to the Inland Motel. According to witness Martin Fisher:

Crabbe then maneuvered the 25 ton Semi and trailer, at speed, around a blind bend, through a car park, around a minibus, turned and drove it through the Besser brick wall into the crowded bar, crushing the people there. Leaving the engine running, he then got out of the truck, smiled down at one of his victims, stepped over some bodies and ran. This was at 1.10am. It had been 40 minutes between being thrown out and driving the truck into the bar. He was captured the next morning walking out of the bush 22 kilometres away.

It was estimated that fewer than 50 people were in the bar at the time of the crash. Many of the customers were construction workers from the nearby resort project of Yulara, which was being constructed to replace the Inland Motel and two neighbouring motels to allow the ground around Uluru to revert to its natural state.

Witnesses likened the impact of the truck hitting the motel to that of a bomb exploding. The truck had penetrated the building to the length of one trailer. The truck remained in place after impact, and was the only thing holding up the building's roof. After the crash the dining room adjacent to the bar became an emergency clinic for the injured. Four people were killed instantly in the crash. A fifth person died in a hospital in Alice Springs after surgeons worked for five and a half hours attempting to save her life. The 35-year-old woman had sustained severe internal injuries.

Crabbe's capture occurred at the Yulara Tourist Village construction site after a search by police and Aboriginal trackers. The Yulara settlement is a distance of several kilometres from the former site of the Inland Motel. William Hugh O'Neill, the catering manager from the Yulara Construction Camp, testified that he found Crabbe walking towards him near the construction camp on the morning of 18 August. Crabbe waited with O'Neill for police to arrive, asking the extent of the damage to the motel. Crabbe was informed by O'Neill that at least four people had died, including "one of my boys from the kitchen".

Pretty kino song came from this car attack though:
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Douglas Crabbe:
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2013 Guam car ramming and stabbing attack 3 killed, 11 injured

2019 Tokyo car attack - 0 killed, 9 injured

Berlin christmas market attack 2016

Barcelona, La Rambla attack 2017 (13 deaths, +100 injured)

I have a big interest in vehicular attackers

Among the mass stabbings and Car Rammers, I am more interested in those who used knifes and that kind of weapons, but to analyze the chronology of the attacks, I am more interested in the vehicular attackers, these are closer to the destruction and chaos that make mass shootings so interesting.