The crash occurred when a bus, carrying a youth group and church members, collided head-on with a pickup truck, while traveling on interstate 71 at around 10:45 p.m. that night.

The first race was in 1922, and it featured motorcycles. It wasn’t until 1924 that the now-famous 24 Hours of Spa took place for the first time, a year after Le Mans’ debut in neighbouring France.

Mercedes had firmed up its relationship with the Sauber team, officially re-entering circuit racing for the first time since the 1955 Le Mans disaster, and its motorsport boss Jochen Neerpasch ...

Instead, the 1955 Le Mans disaster at the Circuit de la Sarthe in France was the catalyst for a major change. 84 people were killed when Pierre Levegh crashed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including ...

Roger Federer will serve as official starter for this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans sportscar race in June, organisers said on Thursday.

On April 5, 2010, 29 miners lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine in Whitesville following a coal dust explosion, causing the worst mining disaster in 40 years.

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman is dead at the age of 95. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home on Wednesday. Authorities are still ...

That means cars like the Ferrari 250 LM that won the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans and a Mk. 2 Ford GT40 that ran alongside Ford ... but the SLR is infamous for its key part in the 1955 Le Mans disaster.

A one-car auction took place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart over the weekend, and the car in question—a W196 R Stromlinienwagen from 1954—sold for €51,155,000 ($53,017,370). That makes it ...

The automaker withdrew from competition following the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans disaster, in which Pierre Levegh’s Mercedes 300 SLR vaulted into a grandstand, killing Levegh and scores of spectators.