Fog Light Switch problems of the 1998 Audi A4

On a 1998 A4 quattro Audi, it is the 2nd time that the headlights switch fails, the first time was 6 months ago and have to replace the entire steering wheel colum switch package. This is the second time, and this time I was on a higway around 11:00 pm with no headlights at all, in this car if the headlights does not work, also the fog lights does not work too, so suddenly you end at the middle of the night on a highway with no lights at all. This definetly is a high risk situation because you can not drive with out headlights it is like blind driving. I been searching on the web and it looks like a very common failure on this cars but there is no recall at all for this yet.