Your safety is always our top priority. To enable you to react quickly and safely in case of emergency, here are a few important notes and guidelines.
Safety Instructions
- Switch on your hazard warning lights immediately
- Maintain the minimum distance
- Switch off your engine
- Do not turn round or reverse
- Pay attention to tunnel announcements or the tunnel loudspeaker
- Remain in the car
– Only leave your vehicle if requested by our staff
– Do not lock your car
– Keep the key in the ignition
- Switch on your hazard warning lights immediately
- Park your vehicle in the lay-by or at least to the far right in the tunnel
- Switch off your engine
- Put on a safety vest before you leave the vehicle
- Protect your vehicle with a warning triangle (as per traffic regulations)
- Provide first aid (if necessary)
- Activate the emergency alarm immediately
– via the emergency telephone in the emergency bay (tunnel wall)
– pay attention to the instructions from the control centre
Life-threatening situation!
If possible, drive the vehicle out of the tunnel.
If this is not possible:
- Park vehicle to the side
– Leave the rescue lane free - Put on a safety vest before you leave the vehicle
- Leave your vehicle – Do not lock your car – Keep the key in the ignition
- Trigger the fire alarm (emergency bay, tunnel wall)
- Provide first aid (if necessary)
- Extinguish the fire with the hand extinguisher (if necessary)
– Extinguishers are available in the emergency telephone niches - Leave the tunnel tubes on the shortest route immediately (emergency exits) if the fire cannot be extinguished
- Take other people with you when you leave
- Pay attention to the tunnel speaker announcements
- Pay attention to the oncoming traffic (adjacent tubes)
Safety technology
The Warnow Tunnel has been planned and constructed in accordance with the latest technology. The systems installed have already proven their effectiveness in similar or equal constructions in other German and European traffic projects. The tunnel is one of the most modern road tunnels in Germany.
We reserve the right to make changes to technical data and designs based on new findings, statutory changes, or similar, without further communication.
- 2 tubes of one-way traffic
- 2 emergency exits per tube
- 2 breakdown lay-bys per tube (one for each tunnel entrance/exit)
- Escape doors are located every 150 m (max. 75 m to the next door)
– Orientation lighting and photoluminescent pictograms show the direction and distance (in m) to the next escape door - Escape doors are fire resistant and monitored
– recognizable by optical light identification (pictograms) - Measures to prevent smoke transfer into the adjacent tube
- External access for emergency services (via the second unaffected tube)
- Supply: 2 × 20 kV circuits each at the service rooms east and west
- Emergency power supply: 3 USV installations
- Emergency lighting
- Orientation lighting
- Eye adaptation section (light control at the tunnel entrance)
- Passage lighting
- Active LED lane marking
- Safety/control room is occupied 24 hours
- Automatic monitoring and tunnel control system
- Traffic control is possible by variable message road signs
- Height control
- Traffic light systems
- Environmental data recording (weather stations)
- Blocking barriers
- Video monitoring
- Emergency telephones (every 150 m, additionally 4 emergency columns in the breakdown lay-bys)
- Loudspeaker
- Traffic announcements (NDR 1 Radio MV, Ostseewelle)
- Digital tunnel radio (for all emergency services)
- Mobile telephony (all networks)
- Company mobile radio
- Manual and automatic fire alarm systems
- Fire extinguishers (in all emergency telephone niches)
- Permanent fire water supply by means of pumps
- Fire water tapping point (hydrants every 150 m)
- Fire water emergency supply possible
- Fire water collecting tank
- Fire-fighting equipment
– adapted for Warnow Tunnel
– e.g. special long-term breathing apparatus - More than 2 responsible fire wardens
- Jet fans (6 groups of 5 fans each)
– heat-resistant, reversible - Automatic fire programmes
- Data logging
– Carbon monoxide (CO)
– Visibility
– Flow velocity (air)
- Alarm and hazard prevention plan
- Fire brigade action plans
- Automatic tunnel control system
- Automatic tunnel closure by means of traffic control systems
- Automatic communication to fire service (dedicated line to fire brigade)
- Regular emergency exercises
- Regular maintenance and repair of safety equipment
- Bright tunnel walls
- Maximum permitted speed: 80 km/h
- Not permitted for tunnel passage: Bicycles and pedestrians
– Bicycles and pedestrians can use local public transport