An absurd death. During the night between Sunday 30 June and Monday 1 July Clelia Ditano she passed away in lift shaft of the palace of Fasano where he lived with i parents. The madre and the padre, not seeing her come home, they would have started calling her around 6, hearing the phone ringing from the trumpet of the elevator.
The accident in the lift shaft in Fasano
Clelia Ditano, 25 years old, died after falling into the elevator shaft, falling from the fourth floor of a building in Fasano, in the province of Toasts.
According to initial reconstructions, she managed to open the door despite the cabin had not risen: without realizing it, therefore, she would have fallen into the void. Ansa reports that the girl actually went back into the house to leave some personal effects, and then went back down: perhaps she had forgotten something.
The elevator door of the building where Clelia Ditano lived with her parents, in Fasano, province of Brindisi
The telephone and the discovery of her daughter’s death
The parents, alarmed by the failure to return of their daughter, they would have tried to call her on the phone.
In the silence of dawn they would hear it ringing from the elevator shaft. So Giuseppe Ditano, the father of the 25 year old, filmed by theAnsa:
“The elevator had never stopped like that. This morning, seeing that he was not at home, we tried to ring his cell phone and realized he was in the elevator shaft. I immediately understood that something had happened and we raised the alarm.”
The words of Clelia Ditano’s father
The man waited for hours, together with his wife, for the firefighters to recover the 25-year-old’s body.
To the journalists who rushed to the scene of the tragedy, he described his Clelia:
“She was a cheerful girl. She had many dreams including getting a driving license and being independent.. And definitely getting married. Now those dreams have been shattered.”
Investigations underway
Luke Crowned, director of theNational Association of Elevator Construction and Maintenance Companies (Anacam), regarding the accident involving Clelia Ditano, clarified to theAdnkronos that “in order to keep the elevators in operation, they must be entrusted to maintenance to a specialized company that has within it qualified technical personnel, equipped with the so-called lift operator’s license”.
This is a qualification “issued by the Prefecture following the passing of a theoretical and practical exam. In Italy, authorized maintenance is required by a specialized company that carries out at least once, every 6 monthsa check of all the safety devices of the lift, and then noting them on the libretto of the system. The other obligation is to make preventive maintenance visits to the system according to its needs. There is no minimum number of maintenance visits by law“.
Photo source: ANSA
