He says he first “zigzagged” and then to have “nailed“, Anton Ionica, the 47-year-old truck driver of Romanian nationality on trial with the charge of vehicular homicide for the tragic end of Mocanu Petrica34 year old compatriot, died in a road accident along the A13 motorway between the Occhiobello and Ferrara Nord toll boothsin the direction of Bologna.
The facts date back to morning of June 1, 2022 when, just before 6The van on which the victim he was traveling sitting in the front passenger seat, hit the heavy vehicle driven by today’s defendantwhich suddenly – according to the Ferrara Prosecutor’s Office – would happen entered the fast lane.
For what happened last November, the gup had already sentenced to ten months in prison – following an abbreviated procedure – Memet Petrica, driver of the van in which Mocanu Petrica was travelling, indicting Anton Ionica, who yesterday (20 May) gave his own version of events before judge Alessandra Martinelli and prosecutor Ciro Alberto Savino.
In the courtroom, the truck driver has retraced step by step what happened that tragic morning, when he had left Mantua towards Ravenna, where it should have gone to load. Era left at 5 and had taken the normal road up to the Occhiobello motorway toll booth and there he had joined the A13.
He would have followed it up to Ferrara Sud, where he would then have taken the Ferrara-Mare highwaybut close to Ferrara Nord though the accident occurred.
The 47-year-old explained that he was “walking the lane Of ordinary march” when in front of him he saw “first a yellow sign at the top with the word ‘safety’ and then that there were slowdowns”. As, “after placing the arrow“, It was “moved on the lane of left to see if we could overtake, traveling 500 metres before return and then return to the left lane again“.
However, it is in that circumstance that the tragic unexpected happens. A van that was in front of the truck”he had braked suddenly” And “so as not to crash into it” the 47-year-old had “nailed, placing the four arrows successively“. Then, once the traffic had started again, just as the articulated lorry had also started moving again, the fatal collision.
“I heard a crash, a loud bang who moved my cab” recalled the driver, who explained that he had traveled that stretch of road, which was “slightly wet due to the fog, which allowed a visibility between 100 and 120 meters“, with a speed between 60 and 80 km/h.
The driver also, pointing out that the obligation at the time of the crash it was not yet in forceupon specific request from the prosecutor, rejected any objection relating to the No overtaking for trucks with load exceeding 12 tons who travel along the highway, operational from 6am to 10pm.
We return to the classroom June 17th when the witnesses of the judicial police and the technical consultants will be heard.
