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March 10, 2010
Collapsed Montreal parking garage was poorly built: coroner
MONTREAL
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 was in a sorry state and had surpassed its useful life. It was built around 1970.
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.
Canadian Press
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