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Exit fears follow crash

23rd February 1985
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By Our Brussels Correspondent

THE CRASH on a West German Autobahn which killed 19 RAF men aboard a Neoplan doubledecker coach last week has led to demands for tougher safety measures in these vehicles.

Traffic experts who examined the burnt-out wreckage of the West German-owned coach called for improvements to the emergency exits aboard German double-deckers. The coach had collided with a fuel tanker.

They say that the RAF bandsmen on the top deck had no chance because the two exits were both on the lower deck. British-registered Neoplans and other double-deck coaches are required to have upper-deck emergency exits.

A spokesman for the German Motoring Organisation, Adac, said that the Japanese insisted on an emergency exit on the top deck as well and he thought that consideration should be given to applying this regulation in the EEC.

Questions are also being raised in Germany about the safety of plug doors, which are hydraulically locked during the journey.

Several of the rescued men complained they had to struggle with such a door before they could escape from the flames.

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