Road accidents – Perhaps an illness was the cause of a devastating collision between cars at a motorway toll booth in which three people lost their lives and six were injured. The accident occurred at the toll booth of the A12 motorway in Rosignano Marittimo (Livorno), not many kilometers away from another fatal collision which occurred in the morning: two victims, both motorcyclists, who lost their lives along the Scansanese provincial road, in the territory of Scansano, in the province of Grosseto.
It is a sort of war bulletin that was recorded yesterday on the roads of Tuscany. The images of the crash at the Rosignano Marittimo motorway toll booth, which occurred after 1pm, are impressive. The victims are a German husband and wife aged 61 and 68, both from Ausburg, who with their car, a Honda, were traveling towards Rome: they collided at high speed with another car, a Fiat 500, stopped at the toll booth. from a 21 year old boy who passed away. For the three of them there was no escape, they all died instantly. The bodies were extracted by the firefighters and transported to the Rosignano morgue and are now available to the judicial authorities.
In the collision following the first collision, three other cars were involved, a Hyundai Tucson with a Lithuanian license plate, a Tiguan with an Austrian license plate and a Swiss Ford Cmax and the toll booth which was completely demolished. Among the six injured, all slightly injured, a 29-year-old woman, a 63-year-old woman, two little brothers aged one and six years and the 35-year-old mother, who were taken to the Livorno hospital, there is also the toll collector, a 44 year old from Cecina.
According to an initial reconstruction by the police, it could be precisely an illness of the 61-year-old German who was driving the Honda that triggered the accident. The car arriving at high speed on the group of vehicles queuing at the A12 barrier triggered a domino effect which ended up destroying part of the toll booth itself. The President of the Region Eugenio Giani immediately announced the accident by activating the hospital disaster manager procedure. The president of the regional council Antonio Mazzeo said he was shocked and immediately expressed the condolences of the Tuscan Assembly. The mayor of Rosignano Daniele Donati also expressed his condolences for the victims, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
“I followed all the rescue operations – said Donati – starting from 118 and the voluntary associations who immediately worked and we made our civil protection offices available to give support to those who needed it given the closure of the Motorway”. The teams of the Autostrada Tirrenica company are at work to carry out, it is explained, “the restoration operations of the damaged tracks and to allow the reopening of the barrier towards Rome in the shortest possible time”. In the Grosseto area the accident occurred around 9.30 am. the victims are Mattia Cappellani, 18 years old and Leonardo Di Marte, 38: they both lived in the municipality of Scansano, the first in Pomonte, the second in the hamlet of Preselle. The two were traveling on a Yamaha Mt, the younger on a Ducati Panigale. From what has been reconstructed, the head-on collision would have occurred on a straight stretch, it seems near the center of the road, while Cappellani was proceeding towards Grosseto, Di Marte towards Scansano. Maria Bice Ginesi, mayor of Scansano, asked for greater controls: “Two more deaths – said the mayor – two young lives burned on our roads which, we all know, especially at weekends become tracks where motorcyclists engage in real competitions crazy speed where the limit is 50/70 kilometers per hour”.
