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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11367

28 July 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) transport
Lille accident reignites road tunnel safety question

Brussels, 27/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - The question of road tunnel safety (examination of this directive is expected in 2016) has been thrust into the institutional debate, following the collision of a bus and the top of a tunnel wall in the Lille suburbs on Sunday 26 July.

The bus in question was coming from Spain and was literally “decapitated” when it was travelling through the tunnel. 28 people were injured, 4 of them seriously. According to the French press, the same tunnel was the...