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On 26 August 2012, a double-decker sleeper bus crashed into a tanker in northern China, near the city of Yan'an in the Shaanxi province. The tanker was loaded with highly flammable methanol. 36 people were killed. The accident was the deadliest in China since the 2011 Xinyang bus fire, when a fire in an overcrowded sleeper bus containing flammable material killed 41 people. ==The crash== On 26 August 2012, a tanker returned to the highway following an early-morning rest stop. Meanwhile, a double-decker sleeper bus carrying 39 people left Hohhot, in Inner Mongolia, and headed south to Xi'an.〔 The tanker was rear-ended by the bus at approximately 2:00 a.m. on the Baotou-Maoming motorway in north China. The tanker was loaded with highly flammable methanol, causing the tanker and bus to explode in flames. Thirty-six people were killed in the crash,〔 partly due to the fact that many of the passengers were sleeping at the time of the explosion.〔 Three people survived the crash but were hospitalized with injuries.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaanxi bus–tanker crash」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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