Another road victim in Bologna. He is Acref Zamami, a 36 year old Tunisian citizen. He died today at the Maggiore hospital where he had been hospitalized for a few days. On the afternoon of April 25, while he was hit on his scooter from a car in via San Donato.
Since their diffusion, several scooter riders have been involved in road accidents, even serious ones, so much so that the Emilia-Romagna Region has launched two awareness campaigns and the Ministry has introduced new rules: they will have to wear a helmet, take out insurance and affix an identification plate, as required by the reform of the Highway Code.
He passed away on April 25th Manuel Bedonni, a 25-year-old motorcyclist who crashed his motorbike into a truck on the evening of April 24th. The accident occurred on Via Porrettana, near Pontecchio Marconi, shortly after 9pm. Since the evening of the accident, Bedonni had been hospitalized with a reserved prognosis in the intensive care unit of the Maggiore hospital in Bologna. Today the news of the 25-year-old’s brain death arrived; therefore, there was nothing left for him to do. The family, the hospital says, has decided to donate the organs.
Manuel, a lover of engines, had inherited his passion from his father Marco Bedonnia rally driver from Bologna who passed away a year ago following complications from an illness.
Road victims in 2024
The number of victims on Bologna’s roads since the beginning of this year therefore rises to 13. Before Marco Bedonni and Acref Zamami, Angelo Russo, 48 years old, died in Sant’Agata Bolognese in an accident between two cars. Among the victims of road accidents is the 73-year-old Lidia Borghesani, involved in an accident in San Matteo della Decima, a hamlet of San Giovanni in Persiceto. Before her he was also off in hospital Marcello Falconi, a 51-year-old truck driver who was seriously injured in a crash between trucks along the Bologna ring road on 28 February. But those who die on the asphalt are also young people like Raul Zanonia 19-year-old from Modena, who fatally collided with a van while traveling by car on Via Emilia.
Just a week earlier he had lost his life Riccardo Maestri, 57 years old, riding a scooter in via Enrico Mattei. Less than ten days earlier, however, Daniele Caradio, 43 years old and Carabiniere of the Bologna Army, he died riding his Ducati. The frontal impact with a car on San Vitale, in Canaletti di Budrio, was fatal.
Two spouses must be added to the list of victims on the asphalt, Pier Luigi Pasqua and Guglielma Ferro, their life was swept away in a few moments, in Quinzano, a hamlet of Loiano, on January 25th: the car in which they were traveling went off the road while it was in Via delle Vigne. One flight into the escarpment, and there was nothing that could be done.
Finally, 8 days before the start of 2024, the first victim on the asphalt recorded in the Bologna area was the eighty-year-old Luigi Iannelli, hit and killed while crossing the road in Pontecchio, on Porrettana. A handful of days later, on January 15th, Giovanni Guidotti, 62 years old, he died during transport to the Maggiore hospital, after having crashed into the undercarriage of a heavy vehicle in the Ganzole area, while riding his scooter.
