The accident in via Paul Harris, where only a few days earlier a young scooter rider had ended up in another “crater”.
CASERTA. Motorists in Caserta know this well: their gaze should not be kept high, straight ahead of the road, but low to the ground, to the asphalt, to avoid ending up in one of the thousands of potholes that line the streets of the capital.
The “high road” praised by Carlo Marino is impassable. Pedestrians, motorists, cyclists, scooter riders, Vespa riders: everyone is in danger. Everyone could end up in one of the road craters scattered between the center and the suburbs and break their neck due to the inefficiency, lack of maintenance and absolute inertia of the municipal administration.
Just two days ago in via Paul Harris (we are in the area Saint Gobaina few steps from the traffic police headquarters), Luciano F. he ended up with his Vespa in one of these potholes. He lost control of the motorcycle, skidded for several meters and then stopped in the center of the road, bleeding, with an obvious injury to his upper lip and several abrasions on his arms and legs. Many present stopped, called the municipal police and the 118 ambulance, which then transported Luciano to hospital. Someone blocked the traffic, others still held down the poor “road victim” – who was wearing a helmet – worried about possible fractures and, in the meantime, Luciano “justified himself” to those present, saying that he had not noticed that pothole, not having seen it because there was another car passing in front of him at the time, which had prevented him from noticing the chasm in Via Harris.
What to say? We have written many words in recent months (indeed, in recent years), on the state of absolute degradation of the streets of the capital. From the center of the city to the more peripheral areas the leitmotif is the same: life is risked on these roads.
Luciano’s accident (in the photos you can see the poor man on the ground) is one of many that have occurred in the city due to the conditions of the road surface. And right in via Paul Harris just a few days before the accident we are writing about, a young scooter rider had ended up on the ground due, obviously, to a pothole.
Our municipal administrators, first and foremost the mayor and, subsequently, the plethora of inefficient councillors, should be indicted for attempted murder. It is unacceptable, in fact, that none of them (and Carlo Marino, as mayor, is responsible for the public health of his fellow citizens) takes effective and decisive action to remedy this massacre. It is ridiculous that the councilor for public works Massimiliano Marzo send press releases on small repairs made in the streets of your electoral stronghold. It’s ridiculous and pathetic.
God forbid anyone loses their lives, but while the patient is suffering more and more (the city of Caserta) those who are appointed, as elected, to make a provincial capital livable, don’t give a damn. They are too busy – mayor, councilors and city councilors – demanding votes and doing their own lavish business.
