The 9-year-old Sardinian boy who was involved in a terrible road accident on Friday evening on the A14 state road is still hospitalized in very serious conditions in the intensive care unit of the Maggiore hospital in Bologna.
The camper in which he was traveling with his grandparents, his 12-year-old sister and his father was violently collided by a truck while it was parked in the emergency lane due to a puncture.
In the impact, his grandmother , Palmira Pitzanti, 63 years old from Assemini , died. The attempts to save her life were useless, the injuries sustained in the accident were too serious. Together with her husband, both residents of Assemini, they had left Sardinia in recent days to visit their son Stefano Concas (transferred to Emilia-Romagna for work and now an employee of the Bologna airport and former municipal councilor in Assemini in the ranks of the movement Cinque Stelle), his wife and their beloved grandchildren.
The father of the child, Stefano Concas, is also hospitalized at the Maggiore hospital . following a lung perforation (her condition is serious but not life threatening) and the girl . But the truck driver was also slightly injured in the crash.
THE DYNAMICS - According to the first information, the terrible collision occurred when the winds had struck a few minutes ago. The victim's husband was behind the wheel when he noticed that something was wrong. He had thus decided to stop to check if - as he had assumed - one of the wheels had been punctured. The time to get out of the camper and a large truck swooped, apparently at high speed, on the camper . In the stretch between San Lazzaro and Bologna Fiere, now a few kilometers from the toll booth, medical cars and four 118 ambulances, fire brigade teams and traffic police patrols arrived. With them also the staff of the Highways who had to work for a long time to free the roadway from the remains of the camper scattered for tens of meters.
“We have received news that we would never want to receive - says the former mayor of Assemini Mario Puddu -. We are close to Stefano, Claudia and their family. Now, in the pain of this tragedy, we just have to hope that the child will recover ”. The Concas brothers are friends and were also party mates of the mayor Sabrina Licheri : “This news is devastating. Now we just have to pray for the hospitalized child. I hug together with the whole council group with Stefano and Claudia and with the whole family for the very serious loss of my mother Palmira ”.
(Unioneonline)
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