MONTREAL - A coroner says a Montreal parking garage that collapsed and killed a man was poorly built and badly maintained.
Coroner Catherine Rudel-Tessier has concluded the 2008 accident was avoidable.
She says the multi-storey garage was held together with concrete slabs of different thickness and with cardboard moulding.
She says the structure was in a sorry state and had surpassed its useful life.
It was built around 1970.
In a newly released report, Rudel-Tessier is recommending changes to the Quebec building code to tighten rules for inspections.
Saleh Khazali of Montreal was crushed in November 2008 when a slab of concrete collapsed onto his car and crushed it, while sending other vehicles tumbling onto the storey below.
