Year after tunnel death, motorists relax
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One year after 12 tons of concrete ceiling panels fell in a Big Dig highway tunnel, crushing a car and killing a passenger, Dave Weibe can finally drive his own car through the tunnels without nervously eyeballing the ceiling.
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On a steamy afternoon similar to the day 10 years ago when they hugged their loved ones for the last time, relatives of the 230 people who died in a fireball aboard TWA Flight 800 gathered Monday to dedicate the final piece of a memorial to the victims and the rescuers who raced in vain to the crash site.
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By Tim Potter, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jan. 31--A passing motorist spotted a man's body -- lying frozen to the ground in a field near Bentley on Tuesday morning -- and Sedgwick County sheriff's detectives are treating the death as a homicide.
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Commuters got their first glimpse Monday of what to expect for at least the next couple of months as investigators and construction crews work on identifying and repairing problems in the tunnels of the city&#039;s Big Dig highway system.
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The photographers snapped a few more shots than usual. The drivers smiled a little longer than usual. The emotions felt so much better than usual.
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Metropolitan Police officers use laser equipment at the tunnel where Princess Diana died to investigate the crash.
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Seven years before falling concrete crushed a motorist to death inside one of Boston's Big Dig tunnels, a safety officer warned that the bolts could not possibly hold the heavy ceiling panels, according to a bluntly worded memo leaked to a newspaper.
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It might be hard for some drivers to believe, but average commuting times are getting shorter for U.S. workers.
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About 120 people are killed and more than 6,000 injured each year by vehicles that back over them, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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A section of the M25 which was closed after a fatal crash may have to be resurfaced before it can be re-opened.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- They were supposed to be relaxing on the beach or playing a round of golf on yet another sunny day of vacation on their refuge from the harsh winter of Norway. Instead, Leif Giske and his wife stood on the concrete driveway of a hospital amid the stench of corpses at an overflow morgue.
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ILAN, Taiwan  - Taiwan on Thursday celebrated the opening of what officials called the world's fifth-longest road tunnel.
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When 13 people died last summer in the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the National Transportation Safety Board found structural problems within days but expected a full investigation to take more than a year.
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PARIS  - A team of British detectives searched the Paris tunnel Tuesday where Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a 1997 car crash, hoping the use of the latest high-technology equipment would provide new clues to the accident.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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A materials failure called "epoxy creep" was a major factor in the Big Dig highway tunnel ceiling panel collapse that killed a woman a year ago, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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There were a few more flowers, a few more emotional visitors, but no official commemoration Friday over the bustling Paris roadway tunnel where Princess Diana died a decade ago.