Fatal accident on the A14 in a tunnel in Grottammare (Ascoli Piceno), in the Ascoli stretch towards Bologna .

The crash involved multiple vehicles , including a car   and a truck. The victims are Andrea Silvestrone , a 49-year-old athlete with multiple sclerosis , a wheelchair tennis player, and two of his three children. The third is hospitalized but his health conditions are slowly improving.

"It happened at km 300, in correspondence with a correctly installed and signaled work site," Anas said. At the point of impact you are traveling on a single carriageway, due to the work in progress. According to the first investigations, Silvestrone would have lost control of the vehicle after touching a drainage ditch with the wheel. Attempting to get back on the road, he skidded and found himself in front of the heavy vehicle passing in the opposite direction. The driver of the truck was unhurt .

The fire brigade , medical and mechanical first aid, traffic police and personnel from the 7/o section of Pescara of Autostrade per l'Italia were on site. On the stretch of road concerned, traffic was blocked and there was a queue of 2 km in both directions.

(Unioneonline/vf)