"After the accident, my son Christian hugged me and said, 'Dad. Dad. Please forgive him. Because I think he's suffering right now too.' So I decided to forgive him. Then justice will take its course."
Lorenzo Piffer, father of Sara, the 19-year-old promising Italian cyclist who was hit on her bicycle and killed after a collision with a car on Friday morning while she was training along a road in Mezzocorona, in the province of Trento, together with her brother, said this in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Then the memory of Sara: «She was a flower, a gift from God. I am grateful for having had her, I am only grateful for that. She was always cautious and happy to be able to go to training with her brother, because they didn't always manage to go together. She told me: 'Dad, we are always careful, it's the others who aren't careful of us'. And unfortunately that was the case. Sara was good at doing everything».
What message do you feel like giving to those who drive? "It's a Wild West now," he replies. "I'd say we need more common sense. Unfortunately, they always realize it too late. Maybe to gain that minute they put other people's lives at risk. I see things getting worse on the roads. I see him as a driver and I imagine cyclists, who are the real weak point."
(Online Union)
