by Gaia Papi
AREZZO
“It could have been a tragedy. Up until two hours earlier the classroom was full of students.” A car crashed into that classroom of the Erreffe Formazione training agency, in Viale Piero della Francesca, at half past midnight, destroying it. “At 1.30 the municipal police called me to warn me of what had happened. In the meantime the firefighters had already removed the car” says Fabio Fabrizio, owner of the agency together with Rachele Fratini. “From the video surveillance cameras you can see the car arriving and ending up like a bullet against the large window of the training room. First it hit the column, then its side ended up in the window – he says. The impact was so strong who moved the false ceiling. The classroom is devastated” explains Fabrizio. “The problem is that we are an accredited headquarters of the Region, the classroom will be impracticable for a while and we will therefore be forced to slow down the courses”.
Damage to the structure and problems in organizing new teaching, but it could have been a massacre. “Yes, because until two hours earlier that room was full of students who were taking evening courses for basic workers; I don’t even want to imagine what could have happened” he continues. “This is a cursed curve: it was also the scene of a fatal accident. And we have seen many accidents here. In two years, six; in two cases the shutters of the businesses near ours were broken down, in another two, the vehicles crashed they collided with our windows, tilting them. On those occasions the speed of the cars was slowed down by the protections on the pavement. Protections were torn down, but since that day they have never been replaced” he continues. “The danger is also maximum for pedestrians, many Itis students pass here every day. We have asked the Municipality several times. Yesterday the councilor Alessandro Casi did us the courtesy of coming to see what had happened and promised that the Poles to protect pedestrians will be repositioned.” But yesterday another person also showed up at the agency. The very young man who crashed into the window while driving the car that night and who, fortunately, escaped unharmed from the accident. “He came to apologize, we appreciated it, it’s not something to be taken for granted. He said he lost control of the vehicle” explains the owner.
