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Montreal car park collapse was avoidable: Coroner
Released on 08/03/2010
Montreal car park collapse was avoidable, coroner says A Canadian coroner called for tighter inspection rules after finding that a car park that collapsed and killed a man was badly built and maintained.
A coroner says a Montreal parking garage that collapsed and killed a man was poorly built and badly maintained.
Coroner Catherine Rudel-Tessier has concluded the 2008 accident was avoidable.
She says the multi-storey garage was held together with concrete slabs of different thickness and with cardboard moulding.
She says the structure, built around 1970, was in a sorry state and had surpassed its useful life.
In a newly released report, Rudel-Tessier is recommending changes to the Quebec building code to tighten rules for inspections.
Saleh Khazali of Montreal was crushed in November 2008 when a slab of concrete collapsed onto his car and crushed it, while sending other vehicles tumbling onto the storey below.
