Three dead: German husband and wife aged 61 and 68, both from Ausburg, who were traveling in the direction of Rome with their car, a Honda: they collided at high speed with another car, a Fiat 500, stopped at the toll booth driven by a boy 21 year old who passed away.
Acciai was in the 500, sitting in the passenger seat, with a 29-year-old girl driving, who was injured.
Five more injured, not seriously: a 63-year-old woman, two little brothers aged three and six and her 35-year-old mother, who were taken to the Livorno hospital, the toll collector, a 44 year old from Cecina, still in shock after he saw the car hit him.
Another car, in which there was an Austrian couple with their daughter, was grazed by the carambola.
The father told the Tyrrhenian of being saved only thanks to the piled up luggage: «It’s a miracle, my daughter doesn’t have a scratch, despite the shattered rear window. I queued at the toll booth, paid and was leaving, suddenly there was a bang, something hit us forcefully. My daughter was in the back seat, luckily we had a full trunk and the glass has all gone onto the suitcases, she’s safe thanks to this. Without thinking I accelerated and we found ourselves out of that disaster, but there was hell behind it».
The investigators are trying to reconstruct what happened: the Germans’ car therefore did not brake the driver may have fallen ill, or there may have been a breakdown in the car. The car arrived at high speed on the cars queuing at the A12 barrier: hence the domino effect which also destroyed the toll booth.
At 1.10pm the black Honda of the German couple skids, it hits the guard rail and then comes straight onto the cars lined up at the toll booth, ends up on the gate and overturns it: in the overturn, the gate itself hits another car again.
The German car hits the two boys’ Fiat 500 and overturns it. The collision continues, overwhelming the other car. And for the same reason, before overturning, it sends the Fiat 500 upwards, causing it to fall into a pile of sheet metal.
