The tragedy occurred a few minutes before 8am in via Gobellino, in the open countryside. Raffaele Landi was driving the agricultural vehicle, which ended up off the road upon impact and overturned, leaving him no escape
REGGIO EMILIA – He got up at dawn on May 1st too, work in the fields knows no holidays. With his tractor he was traveling along Via Gobellino, in the countryside between Gavassa and Villa Curta, and right there, in the fields not far from his farm, the 69-year-old Raffaele Landi he lost his life.
The accident occurred just before 8am. According to initial findings by the local police, the farmer on his tractor was turning left onto a country road when a tanker going in the same direction, in an attempt to overtake him, overtook him. violently rear-ended. The driver of the heavy vehicle, a 40-year-old from Mantua, was heading to the nearby dairy, also at work on May 1st.
The impact between the two vehicles was extremely violent. The tractor was thrown into the fields together with its driver and overturned. The 118 alarm was sent immediately: an ambulance and a medical vehicle arrived in via Gobellino, but there was nothing left to be done for Raffaele Landi. Every attempt to revive him was in vain. The 69-year-old died instantly. The firefighters and the Local Health Authority’s Occupational Medicine staff were also on site.
There would be no elements to classify the accident as an accident at work, even if the farmer was in fact reaching the farm. The investigators – coordinated by the magistrate on duty at the Reggio prosecutor’s office – are investigating to reconstruct the exact dynamics and ascertain any responsibilities. The 69-year-old leaves behind his wife and two children, who rushed to the scene of the accident shortly after from a nearby home.
“I remember our associate with esteem – the words of Marcello Zanetti, area secretary of Coldiretti of Reggio – tireless worker, breeder, together with one of his two sons, of dairy cattle for Parmigiano Reggiano. My condolences and those of the management of the Reggio Emilia Coldiretti go to the family.”
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