AGI – Un steering system problem of the bus is the most probable cause of the accident in Mestre on 3 October which caused 22 deaths and 14 injuries. One of the four technical reports filed with the Venice prosecutor’s office highlighted “the breakage of the joint that connects the steering wheel to the wheels”, caused not by impacts but by “failure of a pin in the transmission system“, explained the chief prosecutor of Venice, Bruno Cherchi.
Precisely the failure of the pin would have made the Yutong electric bus ungovernable and the driver was unable to brake before it slipped along the worn barriers until falling down the viaduct through a gap.
The other consultancies would highlight the inadequacy of the barriers that were “distressed”, explained the prosecutor, “now it will be a matter of understanding and seeing whether this is directly linked to the spill of the vehicle or not”. It is therefore confirmed that The driver was not responsible for the accident, 40 year old Alberto Rizzotto, who died in the crash. Not only did he not feel ill while driving, as had been hypothesized, but from the examination of his cell phone “he did not have any distractions due to phone calls, messages or notifications arriving at his smartphone which could have distracted him from his work”, he said. assured the prosecutor Cherchi, quoted by Tgr Veneto.
The prosecutor also announced that there is a video from the on-board cameras, acquired by the prosecutor’s office, which records the last moments of the passengers’ lives and shows that the bus was traveling normally on the overpass, when he started drifting to the right. The magistrate launched an appeal to the “common sense” of the parties to whom it will be provided so that it is not disclosed: “It is of no use to public opinion and adds nothing to what is also known through other expert reports and testimonies”.
