TO Sulmonain Abruzzo, six people they remained wounds including two minors when acar she fell between the chairs and coffee tables of a Cafe of the historic center. The incident occurred around 2.30pm on Saturday 27 April, when the place was packed with people.
Cars on the tables of a bar in Sulmona
According to the reconstruction, a tourist’s Ford Eco Sport was parked on one side of Largo Faraglia. There was no one in the vehicle. For reasons still under investigation, the car began to move along the slope of the road.
Maybe it was a broken down or perhaps the vehicle had been left in neutral and without handbrake inserted.
The red circle indicates the area where the events took place. Sulmona is a municipality of approximately 22,000 inhabitants in the province of L’Aquila in the heart of Abruzzo.
The Ford continued for several meters, gaining speed, until it crashed violently, hitting tables, chairs and patrons of the bar.
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A total of six people were transferred by ambulance to the emergency room of the Sulmona hospital, including two kids it’s a lad who attempted to to brake by hand the race ofcarbeing injured in the leg.
The place was reached by police and traffic police, who carried out investigations in the case, interviewed witnesses and tried to trace any images taken by surveillance cameras.
Sky Tg24 reports the comment of the bar owner according to which “they can be counted damages of 2,000 euros“. What happened was “a near tragedy”, adds the woman.
The previous
In July 2023 a Cagliari a photocopy accident occurred: a van without a driver and without a handbrake ran over the customers sitting at the outside tables of a bar on Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
15 people were injured in the impact. Some were treated on site, while 9 were taken to the emergency room.
The risks of not engaging the handbrake
There are several cases recorded in the news in which a parked vehicle has started moving due to a mechanical failure or simply because the owner forgot to apply the handbrake.
In June 2023 a tourist in the province of Belluno he parked the car along the road that runs along Lake Misurina and went to get coffee. His car started moving and ended up in the lake.
In May, a shopkeeper was crushed by her van in Figline, Tuscany, while she was unloading her merchandise for the local market.
To AgnosineIn the Brescianoa security guard died in a similar situation when he was crushed by the company car.
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