Mont Blanc Tunnel / Traforo del Monte Bianco / Traforo T1 (2nd highest motorway in Europe) – IT 2 FR
Driving from Italy (Italia) to France through Mont Blanc Tunnel.
The tunnel links Courmayeur, Aosta Valley (Valle d'Aosta) with Chamonix, Haute-Savoie (Upper Savoy). It's part of European route E25.
It opened to the public on 19 July 1965. It has a total length of 11,611 meters and a maximum elevation of 1,395 meters making it the 12th longest road tunnel in the world and the 2nd highest motorway in Europe respectively.
The tunnel passes under the summit of the Aiguille du Midi, where it lies 2,480 meters beneath the surface, which makes it the deepest tunnel worldwide!
You can see pictures of the area and the surrounding mountains here:
Contents:
0:00 - Start / Approaching tunnels facilities
1:49 - Tollbooth
9:15 - Fire station on the right
2:25 - Entering in the tunnel
15:10 - Exiting to Haute-Savoie (Upper Savoy), France
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5:31 - Opus One
9:00 - 5 Cents Back
11:06 - Go Not Gently
14:19 - Crying In My Beer
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L'incendie du tunnel du Mont-Blanc s'est produit du 24 mars 1999 au 26 mars 1999. Il a été provoqué par un camion frigorifique semi-remorque belge qui .
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TUNNEL DU MONT BLANC
Et si vous empruntiez le tunnel du Mont Blanc ?
11,6 kilomètres entre Chamonix et Courmayeur.
Seconds From Disaster S1E02 Mont Blanc Tunnel Inferno
On the morning of 24 March 1999, 39 people died[6] when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the tunnel.[3] After several kilometres, the driver realized something was wrong as cars coming in the opposite direction flashed their headlights at him; a glance in his mirrors showed white smoke coming out from under his cabin. This was not yet a fire emergency; there had been 16 other truck fires in the tunnel over the previous 35 years, always extinguished on the spot by the drivers. At 10:53 CET, the driver of the vehicle, Gilbert Degrave, stopped in the middle of the tunnel to attempt to fight the fire but he was suddenly forced back by flames from his cabin.[3]
At 10:55, the tunnel employees triggered the fire alarm and stopped any further traffic from entering. At this point there were at least 10 cars and vans and 18 trucks in the tunnel that had entered from the French side. A few vehicles from the Italian side passed the Volvo truck without stopping. Some of the cars from the French side managed to turn around in the narrow two-lane tunnel to retreat back to France, but negotiating the road in the dense smoke that had rapidly filled the tunnel quickly made this impossible. The larger trucks did not have the space to turn around, and reversing out was not an option.
Most drivers rolled up their windows and waited for rescue. The ventilation system in the tunnel drove toxic smoke back down the tunnel faster than anyone could run to safety. These fumes quickly filled the tunnel and caused vehicle engines to stall because of lack of oxygen. This included fire engines which, once affected, had to be abandoned by the firefighters. Many drivers near the blaze who attempted to leave their cars and seek refuge points were quickly overcome.
Within minutes, two fire trucks from Chamonix responded to the unfolding disaster. The fire had melted the wiring and plunged the tunnel into darkness; in the smoke and with abandoned and wrecked vehicles blocking their path, the fire engines were unable to proceed. The fire crews instead abandoned their vehicles and took refuge in two of the emergency fire cubicles (fire-door sealed small rooms set into the walls every 600 metres). As they huddled behind the fire doors, they could hear burning fuel roll down the road surface, causing tires and fuel tanks to explode. They were rescued five hours later from a third fire crew that responded and reached them via a ventilation duct; of the 15 firefighters that had been trapped, 14 were in serious condition and one (their commanding officer) died in the hospital.
Some victims escaped to the fire cubicles. The original fire doors on the cubicles were rated to survive for two hours. Some had been upgraded in the 34 years since the tunnel was built to survive for four hours. The fire burned for 53 hours and reached temperatures of 1,000 °C (1,830 °F), mainly because of the margarine load in the trailer, equivalent to a 23,000-litre (5,100 imp gal; 6,100 US gal) oil tanker, which spread to other cargo vehicles nearby that also carried combustible loads. The fire trapped around 40 vehicles in dense and poisonous smoke (containing carbon monoxide and cyanide). Due to weather conditions at the time, airflow through the tunnel was from the Italian side to the French side.[7] Authorities compounded the effect by pumping in further fresh air from the Italian side, feeding the fire and forcing poisonous black smoke through the length of the tunnel. Only vehicles below the fire on the French side of the tunnel were trapped, while cars on the Italian side of the fire were mostly unaffected. There were 27 deaths in vehicles, and 10 more died trying to escape on foot. All the deceased were ultimately reduced to bones and ash. Of the initial 50 people trapped by the fire, 12 survived.[3] It was more than five days before the tunnel cooled sufficiently to start repairs.
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Tunel du Mont Blanc - Traforo del Monte Bianco - Mont Blanc Tunnel
Pojedynczy tunel z dwukierunkową jezdnią długości 11,611 km. Łączy Chamonix we Francji z Courmayeur we Włoszech.
Tunel kategorii E (ograniczenie dotyczy wszystkich towarów niebezpiecznych z wyjątkiem: UN 2929, 3291,3331, 3359 i 3373).
Przejazd z Francji do Włoch.
Le tunnel du Mont Blanc
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Tunnel du Mont Blanc in 1 minute
Begun in 1957 and completed in 1965, the Mont Blanc Tunnel is 11,611 metres (7.215 mi) long, 8.6 metres (28 ft) wide, and 4.35 metres (14.3 ft) high. The tunnel is not horizontal, but in a slightly inverted V. Altitude on the French side: 1,274 m (4,180 ft); Italian side: 1,381 m (4,531 ft). The tunnel consists of a single gallery with a two-lane dual direction road.[1]
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a road tunnel in the Alps under the Mont Blanc mountain, linking Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France (45°54′05″N 006°51′39″E), and Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy (45°49′04″N 006°57′07″E). It is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes, particularly for Italy, which relies on the tunnel for transporting as much as one-third of its freight to northern Europe. It reduces the route from France to Turin by 50 kilometres (31 mi) and to Milan by 100 kilometres (62 mi).
Mont Blanc, Chamonix, French Alps
Driving through Alps in France - just north of Mont Blanc Tunnel that connects France to Northern Italy
Tunnel du Mont-Blanc : les leçons de l'incendie
Dans le tunnel du Mont-Blanc, le 24 mars 1999, l’accident d’un camion provoque un incendie. 39 personnes sont tuées. Face aux fumées, aux flammes et à la température qui atteint jusqu’à 1 000 degrés Celsius, les pompiers mettent plusieurs jours à maîtriser le feu. Après le drame, le constat des enquêteurs est accablant.
Conçu dans les années 60 pour relier Chamonix à Courmayeur, le tunnel du Mont-Blanc possède un système de ventilation des fumées insuffisant, pas de galerie parallèle pour les pompiers et des équipes de secours pas assez nombreuses et mal formées.
A la suite de l’incendie du tunnel du Mont-Blanc, l’Etat entreprend d’inspecter tous les tunnels de France de plus de 300 mètres. Les normes de sécurité sont revues à la hausse. Dans la foulée, une directive européenne enjoint à ous les pays membres de sécuriser leurs tunnels.
Sources :
Centre d’études des tunnels :
Sécurité dans les tunnels routiers.
Le cadre réglementaire de la sécurité des tunnels routiers.
Directive 2004/54/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 29 avril 2004.
Le financement des infrastructures routières, contraintes, opportunités et ambitions nouvelles ! Yves Crozet, économiste.
Touring Club Suisse : test de tunnels routiers européens 2015.
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