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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 ...
Mont Blanc Tunnel. / 45.854; 6.914. The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc in the Alps. It links Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France with Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy, via the French Route Nationale 205 and the Italian Traforo T1 (forming the European route E25 ), in particular the motorways serving ...
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 It was opened in 1882, at the time the world's longest tunnel, though later superseded by longer tunnels, some over 50 km (31 mi) long.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 ...
12.87 km (8.00 mi) Operating speed. 70 km/h (43 mph) The Fréjus Road Tunnel is a tunnel that connects France and Italy. It runs under Col du Fréjus in the Cottian Alps between Modane in France and Bardonecchia in Italy. It is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes between France and Italy being used for 80% of the commercial road ...
The Emilia-Romagna region offers some of Italy’s finest cars, food, racetracks, and history—from such great names as Ferrari, Maserati, Pagani, and Lamborghini.
Editor-in-chief Tony Quiroga recounts one very special drive through Italy that left him wanting more. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Multiple wildfires broke out across Italy in the summer of 2021. The first wildfires were reported in Sardinia on 24 July, which would go on to become one of the worst affected regions along with Calabria, where five people died, [ 1] and Sicily, which recorded one further fatality. [ 2][ 3] Wildfires in Lazio on 17 August damaged the estate of ...
2018 Westminster car attack (ramming pedestrians and cyclists before crashing into security barriers; none killed) 2019 Pulwama attack; 2019 Tokyo car attack (ramming and stabbing and attempted kerosene arson attacks). 8 people were injured by vehicle ramming, with another person also injured after the attacker struck him while getting out of ...