Three died instantly and six were injured. Perhaps an illness was the cause of the devastating collision between cars at a motorway toll booth on the A12 in Rosignano Marittimo (Livorno), not many kilometers away from another fatal collision that occurred this morning: two victims, both motorcyclists, who lost life along the provincial Scansanese road, in the province of Grosseto.
Accident in Rosignano, car hits vehicles in queue: toll booth on A12 smashed. Three dead and some injured
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, traveling towards Rome: they collided at high speed with another car, a Fiat 500, stopped at the toll booth driven by 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 carambola following the first clash three other cars were involveda 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, a 29-year-old woman, a 63-year-old woman, two little brothers aged one and six and the mother aged 35, who were accompanied to the hospital in Livorno there is also the toll collector, a 44 year old from Cecina.
Accident A12: the dynamics, the domino effect and the illness hypothesis
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 arrived at high speed on the group of vehicles queuing at the A12 barrier it triggered a domino effect which also 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”.
Another fatal accident in the province of Grosseto
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.”
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