Vic: Mobile phone call may be to blame for Burnley disaster

AAP General News (Australia)
04-14-2007
Vic: Mobile phone call may be to blame for Burnley disaster

A truck driver talking on a mobile phone may have triggered the fatal chain of events
in Melbourne's Burnley tunnel last month .. that left three people dead.

News Limited says the phone call was allegedly received by the truck driver .. seconds
before his semi-trailer ploughed into three vehicles in the tunnel on March 23.

News Limited says the call's thought to have been made by the owner of the truck ..

and the distracted driver may have been unaware that a truck with a flat tyre had blocked
the tunnel's left lane .. reducing the speed limit from 80 kilometres an hour to 60.







A brief coronial hearing will be held on Monday into the deaths of Olympic cyclist
DAMIAN MCDONALD, GEOFFREY KENNARD and DARREN SPORN .. who were killed in the fiery eight-vehicle
pile-up.

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KEYWORD: BURNLEY (MELBOURNE)

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