Reggio Emilia, 20-year-old died while delivering pizzas: “Car had worn tires”

Breakthrough in the investigation into the case of Elena Russo, the twenty-year-old girl who died in a car accident in San Bartolomeo di Reggio Emilia on January 30, 2022. Russo, who worked as a delivery girl for a pizzeria, was driving a Fiat Punto (owned by the restaurant) when it suddenly went off the road in via Adelmo Tirabassi, overturning several times and crashing into a pole. Today, after a rejected request for dismissal and a new investigation, it emerged that the tires of the vehicle in which the 20-year-old was traveling were worn, and therefore not up to standard. One of the two tires was 16 years old (while the other 8) and was even older than the car itself.

The investigations

The judge for preliminary investigations, Andrea Rat, ordered the compulsory indictment of the two legal representatives of the pizzeria where Russo worked. A decision that came after an expert opinion by the CTU, the impartial technical consultant appointed by the Court, which put in black and white the existence of a causal relationship between the rules violated for safety at work and the death. The prosecutor’s office, which through the prosecutor Enrico Finocchiaro was associated with the expert opinion, will now have ten days to formalize the charge against the two owners, configuring an accident at work with fatal consequences.