Tunnel death

There was something on the news a minute ago. They'd been having a meal in a wee pub and left about 10pm. The landslide happened about 10 minutes later. The poor things.

Awful Nonu, I've often used that tunnel on the way to Bridport,and friends use it coming the other way.

Someone's head will be on the block , for not even bothering to check if the landslip had actually trapped anyone for 10 days.

So sad for the families..

OMG Oldgreymare , you for a moment would be forgiven for thinking "but for the grace" . Can"t understand why a more through search was not made initially .

Nonu I saw an item of news where someone said they had used heat-seeking apparatus but that the car was too deeply buried. I would have thought they could have tried those long 'sticks' used when avalanches occur.
My friends use that tunnel several times a week to visit their aged Mums, so I do feel ' but for the grace' where they are concerned!

Hope they died instantly and didnt linger...awful for the family to live with they died

Meant with the way they died.

Know what you mean and could not agree more , the sheer terror!

Suspect from the look of the car they were crushed instantly!
The long sticks wouldn't work in a mixture of rock earth etc:

Read in todays paper that the home of the lady killed in the landslide was broken into and items stolen . There are some really vile people about , how could it even enter their mind to do such a thing . I really am disgusted .

Absolute scum of the earth aren't they nonu grave robbers...

There was another landslide onto a beach in Dorset [I think] which buried a woman. The newspaper described how those with her tried desperately to dig her out but the rock fall was too heavy. She wasn't trying to climb the cliff or anything - just walking along the beach. Awful. One's a natural disaster and the other manmade. I wonder how often tunnels are actually checked.