The 42-year-old from San Mauro Torinese involved in the dramatic accident that occurred this morning on the ring road died a few minutes ago at the Turin CTO. The accident occurred at the Interporto Sito exit, in Orbassano, towards Milan, where a lorry violently hit a van, giving rise to a tragic chain of events.
Following the impact, the van ended up against a wall and caught fire. In a scene reminiscent of an action film, the driver of the van was pulled from the burning wreckage by some passing motorists who, despite the danger, immediately rushed to help. Without their timely intervention, the tragedy would have been even more serious.
Various units intervened at the scene of the accident: a carabinieri patrol was the first to arrive, followed by the traffic police, an ambulance and the firefighters. The situation was critical: the truck driver, a 42-year-old resident of San Mauro Torinese, was in desperate conditions.
Transported immediately in “code red” to the emergency room of the CTO hospital, the truck driver arrived in cardiac arrest. Despite the heroic efforts of the doctors, who operated on him for serious abdominal trauma and attempted to resuscitate him throughout the day, the man didn’t make it. The heart stopped beating, leaving behind a trail of pain and dismay.
The accident caused significant traffic disruption, with the ring road blocked for hours while rescuers and firefighters tried to manage the situation they worked to put out the flames of the burning van.
The authorities are still investigating to determine the exact causes of the accident, seeking answers which, unfortunately, will never be able to fill the void left by this loss.
