Woman Killed as Slab Falls From Big Dig Tunnel


	Woman Killed as Slab Falls From Big Dig Tunnel

rmowery

7-11-2006 7:37 PM

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tunnel, construction, boston, bug dig tunnel, interstate 90, death trap

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Woman Killed as Slab Falls From Big Dig Tunnel
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Firefighters inspect a section of ceiling in the Interstate 90 connector tunnel eastbound through Boston that collapsed onto the roadway and killed a woman passenger in a car. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11cnd-boston.html?ex=1310270400&en=ac682c00c88d3579&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><DIV class="timestamp">Published: July 11, 2006</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11cnd-boston.html?ex=1310270400&en=ac682c00c88d3579&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P> BOSTON, July 11 — Huge slabs of concrete weighing at least 12 tons fell from the ceiling of one of the Big Dig tunnels in Boston late Monday night, crushing a woman to death in a car.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11cnd-boston.html?ex=1310270400&en=ac682c00c88d3579&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><P>It was the first time in the massive highway project’s long history that someone riding through one of the tunnels had been killed by an apparent construction failure, state police officials said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F7BE7B0-3943-4109-A4B8-BA65FD4291FE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>