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This is a list of vehicle-ramming attacks. A vehicle-ramming attack is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, multiple people, or another vehicle. [1] [2] [a]
According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts in 2008, this method of attack represented a relatively new militant tactic that could prove more difficult to prevent than suicide bombings. [3] Deliberate vehicle-ramming into a crowd of people is a tactic often used by terrorists, becoming a major terrorist tactic in the 2010s because it requires relatively little skill to perpetrate and it has the potential to cause significant casualties. [4] [5]
Attacks in which authorities confirmed that the attack was terrorism. The kill counts excludes the attackers.
Incidents where a motive could not be determined, or a known motive was not of a terrorist nature.