Unit 7 Exercise 3

When is it bad to be first?

There are thousands of accidents every day, involving trains, -Select-, cars and planes. In many of these accidents, people -Select-. But when did the first -Select- die in a train accident, a car accident or a plane crash?

Trains
On 15th September 1830, there was a -Select- in Liverpool, England between different railway engines. Many people came to -Select-, including William Huskisson, a -Select- of the British government. Huskisson was -Select- and did not see one of the engines, The Rocket, coming -Select- him. It -Select- at about 40 kilometres per hour. It hit him and he -Select- the first person to die in a railway accident.