He did not make it Jamal Allhassanthe young man 23 year old Ghanaian which was last Monday evening hit by a car along the avenues of ring road of Lucca.
The boy, first hospitalized in the local San Luca hospital and then transferred to Cisanello in Pisa, is deceased: the injuries reported were too serious in the collision with a Citroen C1 driven by one 60 year old woman from Lucca.
Since the evening of the accident, which occurred in Viale Giusti, it was understood that the young man’s condition was desperate: after the necessary investigations, the doctors were forced to declare him brain dead. Thanks to his generosity, however, other people will have a second chance: in fact, Jamal’s identity documents indicated his consent to the organ donation.
So Cisanello’s doctors operated on him, removing his plants kidneys and liver. The municipal police of Lucca informed the boy’s family of the tragedy, in contact with the Ghanaian embassy to proceed with the repatriation of the body.
The woman’s position is being examined by the police driving the car – under investigation for road homicide – which initially did not stop after the accident.
To the officers who listened to her, after having tracked her down, he said he didn’t realize he had hit a person. She believed – she explained – that she had hit an unidentified material. She was then subjected to tests to check for any use of alcohol or drugs, the results were negative.
«Monday evening – writes on Facebook neurosurgeon Nicola Benedetto -a young 23-year-old boy from Ghana came to my attention, hit on the crosswalk by a car which then took off. Unfortunately his condition was very serious and he was declared brain dead. A human tragedy and a story of incivility that should make us reflect.”
