Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A crash involving a five-tonne truck and a minivan on Highway 400 claimed the life of a motorist on Wednesday afternoon.
The collision occurred in the southbound lanes, south of Highway 89, shortly after 1 p.m.
The truck had been parked on the shoulder when a minivan lost control and slammed into its rear, Ontario Provincial Police said.
The driver of the van, a man believed to be in his 50s, was killed in the crash.
The truck driver didn’t suffer serious injuries, but was hospitalized after suffering from shock, police said.
Vehicles were rerouted around the accident.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
A Polish passenger train slammed into a truck and derailed on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 13 more, police said.
The train, traveling from Gdynia on the Baltic Sea cost to Zielona Gora in the southwest, rammed into the truck north of Bydgoszcz, in central Poland, police spokeswoman Katarzyna Witkowska said on TVN24 television.
The train’s conductor and a female passenger died in the crash, and the injured were rushed to hospitals in Bydgoszcz, Witkowska said.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
he southbound truck tunnel on Interstate 5 reopened Thursday, a month after a fiery crash killed three people and temporarily shut down the West Coast’s main commercial route.
The tunnel reopened 15 days earlier than expected, said Officer Patrick Kimball of the California Highway Patrol. Authorities initially warned that repair work could take months.
The contractor, Security Paving of Oxnard, will earn a $2.9 million bonus for completing the repairs in less than 33 days, Caltrans officials said. The work included replacement of slabs, concrete barriers and a metal guardrail.
Authorities determined that 31 vehicles — including big rigs and one passenger vehicle — were involved in the Oct. 12 crash.
Several trucks burst into flames and the fire spread from vehicle to vehicle. Flames shot nearly 100 feet in the air outside the tunnel and reached temperatures as high as 1,400 degrees.
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