The coach was travelling westwards on the A9 motorway from Siders in the direction of Sitten, and crashed in the “Sierre” tunnel. For reasons that have yet to be clarified, the coach initially struck the tunnel wall and then crashed head on into a service bay. It was taking schoolchildren back to Belgium after a skiing holiday in Valais.

Status of construction work, Traffic flow, Traffic jams, Major maintenance work.

With the action programme Via sicura, the FEDRO wants to cut drastically the number of road traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

In 2006, the number of heavy goods vehicles passing through the Alps fell again by 23,850 to 1,180,390, which represents a decrease of 2 percent.