Serious road accident along theA21 motorway, at the entrance to the Nure service area. A truck full of paracetic acid, used mainly as a disinfectant, particularly unstable, corrosive and oxidizing in its pure state, overturned and hit a Volskwagen car with three people on board who was passing alongside it at the time. The driver of the heavy vehicle died instantly, remaining stuck between the sheets of metal, while the number of injured people, mainly caused by intoxication, is seven. Fortunately none of them are in danger of dying.
Among those intoxicated there are also four people who were not directly involved in the accident but who were leaving the service area at the time of the crash and, realizing the seriousness of the collision, intervened to free the three people who remained inside. of Volkswagen. “We heard a very loud noisea roar, like an explosion“, two operators from the service area told Corriere della Sera, who rushed out as soon as the accident occurred.”We saw those kids helping each other to get out of the car stuck under the overturned heavy vehicle“, they continue in their story.
“I heard the sound of metal writhing, when I turned I saw a pile of metal sheets. In a few moments a pungent odorthere I realized that a spill had occurred chemical material“, is the story told to the newspaper in Via Solferino by the petrol pump attendant.
The rescue efforts were very rapid, precisely to avoid greater risks in the face of the acid spill and the risk of fires.
