TREVISO – Serious accident on Strada Ovest in Treviso today, 3 June, at 1.30 pm. A 38 year old womanriding his bicycle, she was hit by a vanled by a 22 year old boy, on the cycle path at the crossroads with via Pisa, near the Gobbo driving school. The lady was taken care of by the healthcare staff of Suem 118 and was taken to hospital very serious conditions. After the accident, both she, both the van and the driver ended up in the water in the Botteniga river.
The dynamics of the accident
The impact was so violent that, after hitting the cyclist, the van ended up in the water after tearing away the guardrail. According to an initial reconstruction of the accident, it seems that the driver of the van, arriving from Villorba, suddenly lost control of the vehicle at the bridge over the Botteniga. Someone reported seeing it the driver of the van, a 22-year-old, collapsed while he was at the wheel, suffering from an illness. He ended up off-road and hit the young woman who was at the pedestrian crossing. The van and the girl ended up in the water. The truck driver managed to get out of the vehicle independently While she was rescued by some passers-by who also performed the first life-saving maneuvers while waiting for the Suem doctors.
After resuscitation on the road, the young woman was taken to hospital in desperate conditions.
There West Road was closed to traffic. The firefighters and the local police intervened on site and brought the van back onto the road.
