Eleonora Certelli, who was the girl who died at the age of 21 in a car accident. She was returning from a graduation party

A passion for sport, for athletics in particular. A life ahead to live. Broken dreams returning from a graduation party. While returning home from Cassino, Eleonora Certelli died at the age of 21 in a road accident on the A1, in the stretch between Ferentino and Anagni. Next to her was her mother Maria Rosaria, who was driving the family Peugeot 107. Eleonora’s brother, Francesco, and the girl’s boyfriend also suffered serious injuries in the car.

Their car collided violently with a truck at kilometer 617 of the A1 Milan-Naples motorway. For Eleonora there was nothing that could be done. The four were returning to Rome. The girl, a university student, had never abandoned her passion for sport. She is a Lazio fan, as she says on her social profile where she published the photo of the ‘prophet’ Hernanes while he kissed the Italian Cup, the twenty-one year old wanted to graduate in Sports Science.

Until last year he was part of the Andrea Milardi student association of Rieti, where he practiced athletics. The long jump was his specialty. But not only on the Fidal website can we read his results which began as early as 2015 with his first experience in the GS Fiamme Azzurre. Then the whole process up to the women’s junior championships.

Eleonora Certelli died instantly after the accident. It took the firefighters several minutes to recover her body, which remained stuck between the sheets of the Pegeout together with her mother, brother and boyfriend who were transported in code red to the Gemelli polyclinic and the emergency room of the Castelli hospital . Traffic police officers are investigating to reconstruct the causes of the collision with the truck. According to an initial reconstruction, the Peugeot careened before ending its run against the guardrail. The investigations are ongoing.