He loses control of the car, in which he is traveling with three young people, and crashes into an empty house. The accident could have had even more serious consequences occurred on the night between Sunday 16th and Monday 17th June in Puianello di Quattro Castella, 12 kilometers from Reggio Emilia. Around midnight, one Volkswagen Turan driven by a 55-year-old of North African origin, with two young people aged 22 and 28 and a 6-year-old child on board, entered a small road, via Napoli, along via Marx, the route that cuts Puianello in two until it meets state road 63, the main artery connecting Reggio Emilia and the Apennines. During his journey, for reasons yet to be established in detail, the vehicle ended up with great violence against an old house at number 33 of via Marx, hitting the outer wall and crumbling a large portion of the wall. That portion of the building is not used at this time, and therefore no people were inside.
The collision
The bang caused by collision he brought out some inhabitants of the area, who thus raised the alarm and sent both the 118 medical vehicles and several fire brigade teams and carabinieri patrols to Puianello. The firefighters managed to free the three women and the child from the sheet metal and extract them safely, before checking the stability of the house, which was deemed temporarily uninhabitable. The doctors then visited the injured on site, who were immediately taken to the hospital in Reggio Emilia. The driver, a 55-year-old resident of Puianello, suffered several bruises and injuries, but not particularly serious ones. The 28-year-old and the 22-year-old fared worse, although not life-threatening. Similar speech for the little 6 year old passenger at the moment admitted to short-term intensive pediatric observation. Vital functions are not at risk.
The dynamics
The police at the Quattro Castella station will have to try to establish the precise dynamics of the accident, which from the testimonies collected did not involve any other vehicle. The woman apparently lost control of the minivan perhaps due to falling asleep – not to be ruled out at that time – or due to a distraction that would have led to the skid. There is no lack of traffic problems either. The house must be placed in the external load-bearing walls before being declared fit for use again. Until the restoration work is completed, that stretch of via Marx will be passable in an alternating one-way direction, with traffic regulated by traffic lights.
