Traffic Definition–noun | 1. | the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street. | | 2. | the vehicles, persons, etc., moving in an area, along a street, etc. | | 3. | the transportation of goods for the purpose of trade, by sea, land, or air: ships of traffic. | | 4. | trade; buying and selling; commercial dealings. | | 5. | trade between different countries or places; commerce. | | 6. | the business done by a railroad or other carrier in the transportation of freight or passengers. | | 7. | the aggregate of freight, passengers, telephone or telegraph messages, etc., handled, esp. in a given period. | | 8. | communication, dealings, or contact between persons or groups: traffic between the Democrats and the Republicans. | | 9. | mutual exchange or communication: traffic in ideas. | | 10. | trade in some specific commodity or service, often of an illegal nature: the vast traffic in narcotics. | –verb (used without object) | 11. | to car
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January 7, Near Aligarh, India. A bus takes a wrong turn in dense fog and drives into a canal; 20 people lose their lives.Disasters
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January 6, Zacatecas state, Mex. A bus goes off a mountain road when its brakes fail as it is trying to make a sharp bend; its plunge into the valley below leaves at least 18 of its passengers dead.Disasters
January 3, Qinghai province, China. A truck carrying Tibetan passengers from a pilgrimage to Lhasa in the autonomous region of Tibet overturns, killing at least 54 of the pilgrims.Disasters
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