A young Border Police officer was seriously injured when the tire of a truck that was traveling along the southern lane of the A34 exploded yesterday afternoon, at the border station of Sant’Andrea.
A young Border Police officer was seriously injured due to the explosion of the tire of a truck that was traveling along the southern lane of the A34 yesterday afternoon, at the Sant’Andrea border station: the 25-year-old woman , was engaged in checking vehicles entering Italy when she was hit by the blast from the explosion and was thrown to the ground, suffering a severe head injury. The driver of the lorry, noticing the accident, immediately stopped. The dynamics of the accident are being examined by the Carabinieri, who intervened with the firefighters. The agent was first transported to the San Giovanni di Dio hospital, but, given the seriousness of her condition, she was transferred by helicopter to Cattinara in Trieste: her condition worsened during the day and is now stable. Unfortunately, the policewoman is not out of danger.
The SIULP: “The police are cannon fodder”
SIULP, the police union, did not wait to comment on the incident: “After countless union battles to give dignity to those who worked at the borders, including the installation of booths protected by reinforced concrete barriers, pressurized controls so as not to breathe the carbon monoxide released by fossil fuel vehicles for hours on end, a system to allow an adequate internal microclimate when the road surface temperature reaches 40° C, here we are again having to count the seriously injured the epilogue of the incident which involved the Colleague hit by the bursting of the tire of a lorry in transit, did not have a worse outcome, we owe it only to chance”.
According to the union, policemen are “cannon fodder. Today more than ever, the police and law enforcement agencies need a blue code that includes all the protection tools for workers who are exposed to enormous professional risks every day. SIULP FVG wishes the best wishes to my colleague for a speedy recovery, while asking all the forces of civil society to reflect deeply on the risks of this profession and on the fact that Policemen are Workers and are an integral part of Society, every single day “.
