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Deaths. 39. Non-fatal injuries. 14. On 24 March 1999, a transport truck caught fire while driving through the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy. When it stopped halfway through the tunnel, it violently combusted. Other vehicles traveling through the tunnel quickly became trapped and they also caught fire as firefighters were unable to ...
Dashcam. A dashboard camera or simply dashcam, also known as car digital video recorder ( car DVR ), driving recorder, or event data recorder ( EDR ), is an onboard camera that continuously records the view through a vehicle's front windscreen and sometimes rear or other windows. Some dashcams include a camera to record the interior of the car ...
In contrast, other developed countries tracked by the International Transport Forum saw a median decrease of 77% in fatal crashes, with Spain experiencing the largest reduction. On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991. [4] There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between ...
Editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga recounts one very special drive through Italy that left him wanting more. Driving the Mille Miglia in a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Is Like Freebasing Italy Skip to ...
2016 Nice truck attack. / 43.6936; 7.2557. On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people [ n 1] and the injury of 434 others. [ 4] The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian ...
The Volkswagen Nardò that set the record on the Nardò ring. The record is still unbeaten today. On 5 May 1979, a car broke 400 km/h (249 mph) for the first time, the Mercedes-Benz C111-IV reached a speed of 403.978 km/h (251.020 mph), establishing the Italian speed record. The car was able to complete a full ring lap in 1 minute and 57 ...
The 15,003 m (49,222 ft) Gotthard Rail Tunnel, close to but separate from the expressway tunnel, handles rail traffic on the north-south line in Switzerland. It was opened in 1882, at the time the world's longest tunnel, though later superseded by longer tunnels, some over 50 km (31 mi) long. Under construction since 2002 and opened on 1 June ...
A vehicle-ramming attack, also known as a vehicle as a weapon or VAW attack, [1] is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, people, [2] [3] or another vehicle. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts, this attack represents a relatively new militant tactic that could prove more difficult to ...