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"Mr President, we pay a high price for road traffic. And this time I am not referring to the French
or the German
but to the death and mutilation of people with a value as human beings that cannot be expressed in money terms. Every year, some 40 000 men and women die on our roads, the equivalent of two full jumbo jets crashing every week in the fifteen EU Member States. Annually, more than 200 000 people are scarred for life through injury and/or a handicap. Never do we in any way take note of these statistics. Last week, a delegation of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, which I had the pleasure of chairing, visited two long tunnels with two-way traffic in the Alps. One of those was the Mont Blanc tunnel – 11.6 km long – where, in March 1999, a burning lorry caused an inferno, thereby claiming the lives of 39 people. Our visit started with a brief moment at the monument that was erected in memory of those victims. During the three years that this tunnel was subsequently closed, considerable investments have been made in a large number of facilities, which have been discussed in this report. Nevertheless, the sight of lorries passing each other in both directions on a total width of no more than seven metres is still a frightening one.
Mr Rack has rendered the proposal more effective without underestimating the seriousness of the risks. We therefore hope that the Commission is willing to recognise this."@en1
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