Mourning in San Giuseppe Jato, the town of origin of the victims of the accident which occurred at dawn today on the Palermo-Sciacca valley floor.
All the people involved in the accident were on board a Fiat Punto. The victims are Selma El Mouakit, 20 years old, and 16-month-old Abd Rahim Gharsallah.
There was also a girl, 23 years old and 21 years old, in the car. Both were hospitalized, one with a reserved prognosis. The girls had spent the night in Palermo and were returning to the town.
The mayor of San Giuseppe Jato, Giuseppe Siviglia, shaken by the news of the death of the one and a half year old boy and the twenty year old girl, declared the city in mourning.
The woman driving, according to the police, had a blood alcohol level higher than the permitted level as reported by Ansa.
The girl and the child, who were sitting in the front area of the car, flew out of the windshield upon impact with the guardrail.
Rescuers found them outside the cockpit. For the twenty-year-old and the little boy there was nothing that could be done. The child is not the son of the dead girl, but of one of the two young people who were injured.
The findings and investigations are conducted by the Carabinieri of the Monreale company.
The parents and relatives are being interviewed to try to reconstruct what happened. An accident that could have been caused by the blood alcohol level found on the driver.
