Limousine crash ranks among deadliest US traffic accidents

A limousine carrying 18 people crashed over the weekend in upstate New York, killing all the occupants and two pedestrians, making it among the nation’s deadliest ground-traffic accidents. A look at some others:
— Sept. 23, 2005: A bus ferrying nursing home residents away from Hurricane Rita caught fire and exploded while stuck on a gridlocked highway south of Dallas, killing 23 people.
— May 9, 1999: A bus heading to a casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, ran off a highway on