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wasn't the most expensive car crash that fellow who'd been up all night e-mailing some woman and then drove a Land Rover with a car on a trailer, fell asleep (what a surprise), went off the motorway and ended up de-railing a train killing loads of people.
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Think it was. It was at Great Heck.
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To be fair to that driver - who still vehemently denies it - there was no witness evidence to suggest that he fell asleep; in fact quite the contrary. Nothing about that crash fits with typical occurrences of dozing off at the wheel; particularly for someone of that lifestyle.
It was just decided by the jury that it was the most convenient explanation for an otherwise inexplicable crash [and to cover the embarassment of the Highway Authority for the demonstrable inadequacy of their crash barrier.]
Surely the most expensive crash occured about eight years ago between La Source and Eau Rouge? £25 million of damage - and the driver's were uninsured too?
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How do work out the cost of a crash?
Selby is now quoted at £32M/ 46M Euros
Mont Blanc tunnel 100M Euros
The accident in the St Gotthard tunnel in 2001 also rates very high 10M Euros but if you take into account all the cost of diversions for a long period.
e.g.
"The San Bernardino normally only sees around 500 trucks a day, but since the closure of the Gotthard more than 4,000 have been using it.
The San Bernardino route is also longer than the Gotthard, so there are increased costs in extra fuel and extra driver hours.
Planzer, like other Swiss companies, has followed the advice of the Swiss Hauliers Association, Astag, in passing the increase on to the customers.
?Often in the past the haulage companies have absorbed a price increase,? said Astag spokesman Beat Keiser. ?But not in the case of the Gotthard closure. This time the users of road transport will pay, it works out at about SFr200 per journey.?
Some figures:
www.guycarp.com/portal/extranet/pdf/ExtPub/Day1_Ba...f
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