Implementation of the Kanetsu Tunnel comprehensive disaster prevention drill
= We will temporarily prohibit the entrance of the Kanetsu tunnel =
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- Implementation of the Kanetsu Tunnel comprehensive disaster prevention drill
October 6, 2011
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Niigata Regional Head Office Yuzawa Management Office
NEXCO EAST Yuzawa Management Office (Yuzawa-machi, Minamiuonuma-gun) anticipates a traffic accident in the Kan-Etsu Expressway Kanetsu Tunnel (extension approximately 11km), and responds swiftly and accurately in cooperation with relevant organizations. To achieve this, we will carry out the "Kanetsu Tunnel Comprehensive Disaster Prevention Drill" as follows.
Please note that due to training, the Kanetsu Tunnel (Out-bound) will be temporarily closed for about 30 minutes on that day.
We apologize for any inconvenience, but this is an important training to ensure the safety of our customers in an emergency. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
1 Implementation date
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 12:00 to 15:30
(Restriction on temporary entry of the Kanetsu tunnel (Out-bound): 13:30-14:00, Thursday, October 20, 2011)
2 Implementation place
Inside the Kanetsu Tunnel on the Kan-Etsu Expressway (Out-bound) and in the Taru Tarako Parking Area (Out-bound)
(Training on the Out-bound line of the Tachi-Taru parking area will be conducted assuming that it is inside the Kanetsu tunnel.)
3 Participating institutions
Kanto District Police Bureau Wide Area Coordination Department Niigata Expressway Management Office
Iwatsuki Expressway Management Office, Wide Area Coordination Department, Police Department, Kanto District
Niigata Prefectural Police Headquarters Transportation Department Expressway Traffic Police Corps
Gunma Prefectural Police Headquarters Transportation Department Expressway Traffic Police Corps
Gunma Prefecture Tone Numata Fire Department
Niigata Prefecture Minami Uonuma City Fire Department
NEXCO EAST Niigata Regional Head Office Yuzawa Management Office
(Cooperator) Niigata Expressway Traffic Safety Council Yuzawa Branch
(Cooperator) (Company) Japan Automobile Federation
[Reference Material]
1 Temporary ban on the Kanetsu Tunnel due to comprehensive disaster drills
- place
Kanetsu tunnel (Out-bound line) - Date and time
Thursday, October 20, 2011 13:30-14:00 (30 minutes) - Toll
For customers using Kan-Etsu Expressway Out-bound, who exit at a designated interchange due to the implementation of the temporary Kan-etsu Tunnel entry ban, take a detour onto National Route 17, and then re-enter from the designated interchange, tolls will be adjusted as long as the following conditions are met.
(1) Exit IC for detour: Tsukiyono IC or Minakami IC Out-bound Kan-Etsu Expressway (outbound)
(2) After the detour, you will enter the following IC: Yuzawa IC, Shiozawa Ishiuchi IC, or Muikamachi IC Out-bound Kan-Etsu Expressway (outbound)
(3) Date and time of entry/exit: Vehicles that exited the interchange in (1) during the period when the Kan'etsu Tunnel temporary entry prohibition was in effect, and entered the interchange in (2) within six hours of exiting. - Other
Information regarding the temporary entrance prohibition of the Kanetsu Tunnel will be announced on Kan-Etsu Expressway in the designated SA, PA and IC via signs, posters, wide area information boards, highway radios and highway telephones.
2 Training content
Assuming an accident of three related vehicles has occurred, police, fire department, NEXCO EAST etc. will conduct training such as rescue and rescue of injured people, fire fighting activities.
- Accident summary
(1) At about 154.9 kp (approximately 8.3 km from the Minakami entrance) on the Out-bound lane of the Kan'etsu Tunnel, a passenger car (A) traveling in the passing lane mishandled the steering wheel and collided with the right side wall of the tunnel. As the car returned to the driving lane due to the force of the steering wheel failure, it was rear-ended by a passenger car (B) from behind. Fires broke out in both vehicles.
(2) Furthermore, passenger car (C) suddenly braked to avoid the accident, slipped, collided with both sides of the tunnel, and came to a stop behind passenger car (B). The driver of the vehicle was unable to escape.
*Accidents will be simulated accidents involving real vehicles, and fires will be simulated fires.
*The actual training location will be near 149.1 kp on the Kan'etsu Tunnel's Out-bound lane (approximately 2.5 km from the Minakami entrance) in order to shorten the no-entry time. - Training place
[Kan-etsu tunnel Out-bound lines within '
[Tsucharu Parking Area Out-bound Line]
- Training content
(1) In the Kanetsu tunnel Out-bound line: On-site emergency drills using the evacuation contact pit, fire-fighting training with water spray and fire trucks, rescue training with an ambulance, evacuation drills from the evacuation pit
* Assuming a worsening of power supply and demand, turn off all tunnel lighting on the passing lane side.
(2) In the Out-bound line of the Taru-Taru parking area... Rescue training with a work vehicle and exclusion training for accident vehicles
[Past training situation]
3 Information on interviews
If the media organization wants to cover the training, we will guide you from the meeting place to the training site with a vehicle prepared by NEXCO EAST, so please follow the procedure below.
- On the day of the event, all vehicles except training vehicles and emergency vehicles will be temporarily prohibited from entering the Kanetsu tunnel, so ordinary vehicles, including news vehicles, will not be allowed to pass to the training site.
- If you are interested in interviewing the training, please contact NEXCO EAST 13:00 on Thursday, October 13, 2011, with the company name, the number of participants, and the names and contacts of those who can contact on the day. Please contact the Yuzawa Management Office General Affairs Department.
*Applications after the deadline may not be accepted, so please apply by the deadline. - The meeting place and time are as follows.
A. Meeting place
(1) NEXCO EAST Yuzawa Management Office
(Kan-Etsu Expressway Yuzawa Interchange)
(2) Kan-Etsu Expressway Dotaru Parking Area Out-bound Line
B. Meeting time
(1) Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:20 am
(2) Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:50 am
C. Outline process
11:30 a.m. Depart from Yuzawa Management Office ((1) ride)
11:50 am, Dotaru parking area Out-bound line set
12:00 Opening ceremony, outline of training and explanation of precautions
12:30 Depart from the Tachiru parking area Out-bound line (ride (2))
13:15 Arrival at the training site in the Kanetsu tunnel Out-bound line
From 13:30 to 14:00 Training in the Kanetsu tunnel Out-bound line
From 14:20 to 15:00: Training in the Out-bound line of the Taru barrel parking area
15:00 Closing ceremony ((2) dissolution after the closing)
15:30 Depart Tsucharu Parking Area Out-bound Line
15:40 Arrival at Yuzawa Management Office ((1) dissolution) - Please behave according to the instructions of our staff in the Tachiru parking area Out-bound line and the Kanetsu tunnel which will be the training site.
- Part of or all of the training may be canceled due to bad weather.