Fulvio Filace, the 25-year-old graduating student who was seriously injured in the explosion of the auto-prototype that took place last Friday on the Naples ring road, did not make it. The intern was hospitalized in Cardarelli in very serious conditions due to the injuries sustained by the flames.
Last Monday the 66-year-old researcher of the Cnr, Maria Vittoria Prati, who was driving the car, died after a few days of hospitalization. The woman had suffered third-degree burns on 90 percent of her body, and her conditions had immediately appeared very serious to the doctors of the same hospital.
For thirty years at the engine institute of the Cnr in Naples, an engineer, Prati was considered a reference name in the field of the study of emissions and the use of alternative fuels.
The Naples prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the episode, against unknown persons for now . Also ordered was the seizure of a vehicle identical to the one destroyed, a Volkswagen Polo Tdi, a prototype used as part of a project called "Life-Save" aimed at testing the possibility of combining an electric motor with batteries powered by solar panels to cars equipped with a thermal engine with the aim of reducing emissions into the environment.
According to what has emerged so far, the powerful explosion would have been caused by cylinders whose content, at the moment, remains unknown: a report from the firefighters will shed light on the type of gas they contained.
(Unioneonline/D)
