Brasseuse english summary

On Tuesday 5 September 2006, following an initial accident on the A1 motorway near Roissy-en-France, in the direction of Lille-Paris, the tollgate in the middle of the Chamant (Senlis) lane closed and a tailback formed. At around 3.35 pm, the driver of a Polish coach carrying 43 passengers violently struck an articulated lorry that was stationary in the tailback. This lorry was thrown forward and in turn crashed into the articulated lorry ahead of it.

The final death toll of this accident was four people (the driver and three other people sitting at the front of the coach) in addition to 39 casualties, eleven of whom were hospitalised.

The main cause of the accident was the late reaction of the driver of the coach, probably caused by drowsiness or distraction at the wheel.
The driver of the coach had not been made aware of the tailback as the display on variable message signs gave more importance to regulating traffic than alerting to the danger, and the truck signalling accidents had just left its parking place and had therefore not yet reached the rear of the tailback.

The death toll of the accident was aggravated by the fact that the passengers were not wearing seatbelts.

The report put forward two recommendations bearing on continuing to signal the rear of tailbacks and making professionals and users travelling in the European Union aware of the obligation to wear seatbelts in coaches.

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