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Authorities Raid Goodyear Sites In Europe Over Burst Tyre Deaths

Two truck drivers were killed on France's A36 motorway in July 2014 when one of them lost control of his vehicle when his tyres burst (Credit: AFP)

Investigators searched three European sites belonging to American tyre giant Goodyear Tuesday, French prosecutors said, as part of an involuntary homicides probe into crashes caused by burst truck tyres.

The simultaneous searches began in the morning at Goodyear in France, Luxembourg and the company's European headquarters in Brussels, said Etienne Manteaux, prosecutor in Besancon, eastern France.

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