AZ, the 36-year-old Tunisian resident in Bologna, who on April 25 was the victim of a road accident while riding a scooter, didn’t make it. The man was traveling on via San Donato towards the center, for reasons to be ascertained at the intersection with via Zagreb he collided with the car, ending up being hit by it and thus suffering serious consequences that led to his death. The scooter he collided with a car driven by a 51-year-old.
The scooter accident and the collision with the car: the rescue efforts
Immediately transported in critical condition to the Maggiore hospital, code 3 that is the most serious one, the 36-year-old’s condition immediately appeared desperate. And yesterday, Monday 29 April, in fact the man died in hospital, where he never woke up after the terrible impact. The local police arrived on site on Liberation Day to investigate the case, as well as the 118 ambulance with healthcare personnel on board. He was transported to the emergency room, while the officers worked to reconstruct the dynamics of the impact and any responsibilities. In cases like these the Prosecutor’s Office opens a case for vehicular homicide so as to allow for all further investigations that may be necessary establish how exactly the facts happened and also those who did not respect the right of way by crashing into the other.
The debate on the road safety of scooters
Regardless of what the findings say, this is yet another accident whose protagonist, this time in the most tragic way, is a scooter. Light vehicle of increasing use, regulated through new legislation expected to come into force in the summer (compulsory insurance and helmet) and which serves precisely to contain its danger both when it is used improperly outside the urban area and in historic centres.
The precedents that have caused discussion
The case history is long and starts, at a national level, precisely from the Bolognese area. It was June 2020 when a 60-year-old from Selva Malvezzi died when he was hit by a car inside the Pescatori roundabout in Budrio, while he was traveling along a road where his electric vehicle could not have been. But there are many episodes, even recent ones. Sometimes even in the opposite direction, as happened to an 88-year-old woman who was struck by a scooter traveling against traffic in via Saragozza. The investor ran away while the elderly woman was forced to seek treatment in the emergency room, receiving a ten-day prognosis. In December the very dangerous journey against traffic on the ring road it had cost over 500 euros to a 29-year-old who was driving along the emergency lane as if it were nothing. He was stopped by a local police patrol who fined him several times until he reached and exceeded that figure.
