When AA running cost tables were first published in 1950, the road fund licence (car tax) was Â£10 and a litre of petrol cost 3.3p. You need to take care with comparisons though. 1  modern cars are much more economical and a lot safer.
This article is about the plane crash. For other uses, see The Day the Music Died (disambiguation) . On February 3, 1959, rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. The Big Bopper Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with the pilot, Roger Peterson.
January 2, 2002: Buddy, the chocolate Labrador retriever owned by the Clintons, was run over by a car near the former president's home in Chappaqua, New York. The dog died. January 4, 1960: French existential novelist and dramatist Albert Camus (46) was killed in an automobile accident near Sens, France.