It will be theinvestigation of the judiciary entrusted to the Police, to try to shed light on the dynamics of the death of the passenger in the serious accident that occurred at dawn on theA16 in the municipality of Vallesaccarda in the province of Avellino.
Article Key Points
The crash, in which 14 people were also injured, involved a bus with 38 people on board, which fell into a ditch, and five other cars. The victim was on board one of the two cars involved in a collision between two cars and, at the moment, it is not clear whether he was killed in that accident or in the subsequent collision between the bus and the two cars stopped on the roadway, in the direction Napoli.
Three other cars, which then arrived, were involved in the traffic accident, just after the Bus. Meanwhile, in the gym of grottaminarda where most of the bus passengers were hosted, only about ten people are now waiting for the arrival of a replacement bus that will take them to Rome.
Fifteen other passengers were taken to the hospital in Ariano Irpino for further medical checks. Others, whose conditions were not worrying, were reached by relatives in cars who took them away.
The A16 section towards Naples has reopened
Shortly after 9am, the stretch of the A16 motorway in the municipality of Vallasaccarda, in the province of Avellino, where the serious accident occurred at dawn today, was reopened to traffic.
Has been recovered from the slope where the bus with 40 people on board, 38 passengers and 2 drivers, ended up, involved in the accident that occurred around 4 am along the motorway A16 Naples-Canosa, at kilometre 100 in the direction of Naples.
There are no other victims, as well as the firefighters they feared, in addition to the deceased person inside the company bus Flixbus, departed from Lecce and headed to Rome. The 14 injured are in hospitals in Ariano Irpino, Benevento and Avellino. Some suffered serious injuries but none are thought to be in danger of life.
All passengers on the bus and the 5 cars involved in the accident have been transferred to a reception center set up in Grottaminarda. There they are receiving assistance before being able to reach other destinations. They are mostly non-EU citizens who were on board the bus and who were supposed to reach Rome or other intermediate stops planned by the transport company.
According to an initial reconstruction of the Avellino Highway Police the bus apparently ended up on cars already involved in a previous accident, but the traffic police, under the coordination of the Benevento public prosecutor's office, competent for the territory, is working to acquire all the elements useful for the investigation.
One of the injured: terrible crash, they crawled out
"It was a tremendous crash: in a few seconds we found ourselves in the embankment. The bus remained almost suspended, we managed to get out one at a time by crawling on our stomachs". This is Laura, an airman, speaking. originally from Brindisi, one of the passengers on board the Flixbus bus.
At the moment of impact with the two cars involved in a collision stopped on the roadway, immediately after a bend, he was sleeping in his seat at the back of the bus. The bus had stopped in the area of five minutes before the accident, around half past three “Calaggio” service.
Almost all passengers chose to stay on board. Syria, a young man from San Michele Salentino (Brindisi) with her mother Antonietta and her brother, headed to Rome to undergo an operation, she occupied the first seat on the bus.
“The driver screamed, then veered left and hit the guardrail. He spun before hitting a car stopped on the roadway and ending up in the embankment.” The young woman was put in a neck brace. Nicoletta, her mother, and her brother suffered minor bruises.
They too managed to get out by crawling through the space created by a broken glass. “We all found ourselves on top of each other – Nicoletta says – we were saved by a miracle: the trees stopped the bus which otherwise would have ended up rolling on itself for several dozen meters”.
A financier on board: we are alive by a miracle
“It's a miracle we're alive”: Biagio, theLieutenant of the Guardia di Finanza, was on board the Flixbus bus with his children Gaetano and Martina, headed to Rome for a short vacation. He spoke on the phone with his wife who from Copertino, in the province of Brindisi, anxiously asks for reassurances about their health conditions.
Together with his children he managed to find a way out through a broken window. In the gymnasium of the municipality of Grottaminarda where thirty of the thirty-six passengers of the bus have been transferred since five this morning, some of them with slight bruises, many say that “having seen death with one’s own eyes.”
Carlino, who left from Lecce, is still shaken: “I held on to the seat in front, keeping my legs up. It was my luck: I prevented one of the seats that had come off their hinges after the impact from crushing me.”
Article published on 4 June 2023 - 11:53
