The Guardia di Finanza of the Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi mountain rescue and the Carabinieri were present on site and are still carrying out investigations into the accident.
The Avellino firefighters intervened on the SS 691 at kilometer 14 at 4.00 pm today, April 30, for a serious road accident involving a lorry and a car. In the violent impact, the heavy vehicle carrying empty food boxes fell beneath an overpass approximately 20 meters high. The 37-year-old driver originally from the province of Foggia coming from Pontecagnano and heading to Foggia was stuck between the twisted metal sheets of the passenger compartment. The operations to extract him were long and delicate and he was then entrusted to the care of the 118 medics who intervened and transported him by air ambulance to the Salerno hospital. The 60-year-old driver of the car from Laviano was injured and was being transported by 118 to the Oliveto Citra hospital to undergo medical treatment. The teams from the Lioni detachment intervened on site supported by the mobile crane from the Avellino headquarters and the team from the Eboli detachment of the Salerno command and another mobile crane from the Salerno command intervened to help. The firefighters who intervened made the damaged vehicles safe.
Source: www.irpinia24.it
