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Tunnel Accidents * Swiss - Focus on trucks halves
Florence,Italy -The Age (Melbourne,Victoria,Aust), by Peter Munro -April 1, 2007: -- On a stark stone plaque at the mouth of the Gotthard Tunnel are the names of 11 people killed after a head-on crash between two trucks sparked a raging inferno that burned through the day and night... People died in their cars as toxic fumes and flames rushed along the 17-kilometre Swiss tunnel in October 2001. As with last week's Burnley Tunnel blaze, the fire was as hot as 1000 degrees, reducing vehicles to molten metal. In Europe, the Gotthard tragedy spurred authorities to set strict safety standards for road tunnels. And, as similar calls are made in Australia, the experience overseas shows one way forward to fewer fatalities... Reinhard Rack, an Austrian member of the European Parliament, was the force behind the European Union's mandatory safety standards, which came into force last May. Among those measures are requirements that busy road tunnels of more than 500 metres in length install emergency evacuation stations every 150 metres, automatic fire detection systems and ventilation shafts that can extract fumes and smoke at the core of a fire...
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