The World's longest tunnel page - Fire accidents in road tunnels

						CONSEQUENCES
Year	TUNNEL Length	Location Country	Vehicle where fire occurred	Most possible cause of fire	Duration of fire	Consequences people	Damaged vehicles	Structures and installations
1949	Holland 2 550 m	New York USA	Lorry with 11 tons of carbondisulfid	Load falling off lorry explosion	4 h	66 injured smoke inhalation	10 lorries 13 cars	Serious damage over 200 m
1974	Mont Blanc 11 600 m	France-Italy	Lorry	Motor	15 min	1 injured
1976	Crossing BP - A6 430 m	Paris France	Lorry with drums of 16 tons polyesterfilm	High speed	1 h	12 light injuries (smoke)	1 lorry	Serious damage over 150 m
1978	Velsen 770 m	Velsen Nederland	4 lorries 2 cars	Front-rear- collision	1h 20	5 dead 5 injured	4 lorries 2 cars	Serious damage over 30 m
1979	Nihonzaka 2 045 m	Shitzuoka Japan	4 lorries 2 cars	Front-rear- collision	159 h	7 dead 1 injured	127 lorries 46 cars	Serious damage over 1 100 m
1980	Kajiwara 740 m	Japan	1 truck with 3600 litres of paint in 200 cans	Collision with side wall and overturning		1 dead	1 truck, 4t 1 truck, 10t	Serious damage over 280 m
1982	Caldecott 1 028 m	Oakland USA	1 car, 1 coach 1 lorry with 33000 l of petrol	Front-rear- collision	2h 40	7 dead 2 injured	3 lorries 1 coach 4 cars	Serious damage over 580 m
1982 3. Nov.	Salang 2 700 m	Mazar-e-Sharif - Kabul Afghanistan	Soviet military column. At least one petrol truck.	Front collission Destroyed tank		> 400 dead
1983	Pecorila Galleria 662 m	G�nes Savone Italy	Lorry wth fish	Front-rear- collision		9 dead 22 injured	10 cars	Little damage
1986	L'Arme 1 105 m	Nice France	Lorry with trailer	Braking after high speed		3 dead 5 injured	1 lorry 4 cars	Some equipment destroyed
1987	Gumefens 343 m	Berne Switzerland	1 lorry	Front-rear- collision	2 h	2 dead	2 lorries 1 van	Slight damage
1990	R�ldal 4 656 m	R�ldal Norway	VW transporter with trailer		50 min	1 injured		Little damage
1990	Mont Blanc 11 600 m	France-Italy	Lorry with 20 tons of cotton	Motor		2 injured	1 lorry	Some equipment destroyed
1993	Serra Ripoli 442 m	Bologne-Florence Italy	1 car + lorry with rolls of paper	Collision	2h 30	4 dead 4 injured	5 lorries 11 cars	Little damage
1993	Hovden 1 290m	H�yanger Norway	Motor cycle 2 cars	Front-rear- collision	1h	5 injured in the collision.	1 motor cycle 2 cars	111 m insulation material destroyed
1994	Huguenot 3 914 m	South-Afrika	Bus with 45 passengers	Electrical fault	1h	1 dead 28 injured	1 coach	Serious damage
1995 10. April	Pfander 6 719 m	Austria	Lorry with trailer	Collision	1h	3 dead in the collision 4 injured	1 lorry 1 van 1 car	Serious damage
1996 18. March	Isola delle Femmine 148 m	Palermo Italy	1 tanker with liquid gas + 1 little bus	Front-rear- collision		5 dead 20 injured	1 tanker 1 bus 18 cars	Serious damage tunnel closed for 2.5 days
1999 24. March	Mont Blanc 11 600 m	France-Italy	Lorry with flour and margarine	Oil leakage Motor		39 dead	23 lorries 10 cars 1 motor cycle 2 fire engines	Serious damage Tunnel reopens 22.12.2001
1999 29. May	Tauern 6 401 m	A10 Salzburg-Spittal Austria	Lorry with paint	Front-rear-collision 4 cars and 2 lorries		12 dead 49 injured	14 lorries 26 cars	Serious damage
2000 14. July	Seljestad 1 272 m	E 134 Drammen - Haugesund Norway	The trailer-truck that caused the multiple collision had a diesel fire in the engine room before the collision.	Front-rear-collision A trailer-truck pushed a car into 4 cars that had stopped behind another truck.	45 min	6 injured	1 lorry 6 cars 1 MC	Serious damage. NOK 1 mill. Tunnel colsed for 1 1/2 days.
2001 28. May	Prapontin 4 409 m	A 32 Torino - Bardonecchia Italy	Romanian truck loaded with beets	Mechanical problem		19 injured by smoke		Closed til 6. June in direction Frejus (west)
2001 6. Aug.	Gleinalm 8 320 m	A 9 near Graz Austria	Car	Front collission lorry - car		5 dead 4 injured	1 lorry 1 car
2001 24. Oct.	St. Gotthard 16 918 m	A 2 Switzerland	Lorry	Front collission 2 lorries	2 days	11 dead	13 lorries 4 vans 6 cars	Serious damage. Closed 2 months
2003 14 April	Baregg 1 390 m	A 1 Switzerland	Lorry Car	Fron-rear collission A lorry drove into the last car in a pile-up		1 dead 5 injured
2005 4. June	Fr�jus 12 895 m	T 2 France - Italy	1. load: Tyres 2. load Chese 3. load: scrap (2 dead) 4. load: glue	Diesel leakage in lorry loaded with tyres. Spread to 3 other lorries.	6 hours. Fire extinguished before it reached glue load in 4th lorry	2 dead. 21 treated for smoke inhalation	4 lorries 3 fire fighting vehicles	Serious damage Tunnel closed
2005 25 Dec	m	B 31 Germany	2 cars	Front collission		5 dead
2006 16. sept.	Viamala 742 m	A 13 Switzerland	Car + bus	Front collission		6 dead 6 injured	1 bus 2 cars
2007 23 Mar.	Burnley 3400 m	Australia	3 lorries 4 cars	Rear-end collission		3 dead
2007 10 Sep.	San Martino 4 800 m	SS 36 Italy	Lorry	A lorry crashed into the wall and caught fire		2 dead 10 injured
2007 12 Oct.	m	I 5 USA	Lorries	2 lorries collided. Another 13 lorries crashed into the accident site and caugt fire		10 injured