Collision between a truck and a car at the entrance to the Autogrill Nure Sud between Piacenza and Cremona. Following the impact, the heavy vehicle – which it was carrying drums of peracetic acida very powerful oxidizing and oxidizing agent, spilled onto the asphalt of the service area – it overturned, overwhelming a Volkswagen Scirocco with three people on board.
One victim and seven injured
The lorry driver died instantly and his body was stuck in the tangle of sheets of metal. In a car, which had just entered the service area, there were four other people who helped the occupants of the Volkswagen to get out of the passenger compartment. The budget is 7 people were poisoned not seriously from acid fumes: two men and five women. In the meantime, help began, arriving on site with the Piacenza 118 medical car, an ambulance from the Red Cross and one from the White Cross. The Parma air ambulance was airlifted and flew over the area and then landed in Autogrill.
Acid spill to be contained
In the meantime, the Piacenza firefighters also arrived with various means and with the Nbcr (Nuclear bacteriological chemical radiological) unit to contain the acid leak and extract the lifeless body of the truck driver: a 52-year-old Italian, resident in the province of Pavia, who he was driving a truck from a Turin company. The intoxicated people were all transported to Piacenza hospital. They arrived on site to ascertain the dynamics of the accident four police patrols of Cremona with commander Ettore Guidone. The video surveillance images from the cameras present in the service area and the braking marks left on the road surface are being examined.
