«Shuttle to Venice», shuttle to Venice.
This is what Alberto Rizzotto, 40 years old, the driver of the bus that crashed in Mestre yesterday at 6.30 pm, an hour and a half before the tragedy, wrote in his last post on Facebook.
Rizzotto died with 20 other passengers while transporting them to the "Hu Camping" in Marghera.
In the following hours, as news of the accident spread, increasingly worried messages from friends appeared under the post , who knew that was the line Alberto had taken. «Reply», «Let me hear you please», the messages left without reply.
Rizzotto, a 40-year-old originally from Conegliano but resident in Tezze sul Brenta, was an expert driver, colleagues recall, who had been in the business for 7 years. He was an employee of Martini Bus which had rented the vehicle to the La Linea company with which it had a contract for the transport of tourists in Venice.
Yesterday he had picked up the tourists in the historic center and was taking them back to the campsite in Marghera. From what appears to be he had been on duty 90 minutes earlier, a detail that would seem to exclude the possibility of falling asleep. «The bus was new and he was good» claims Massimo Fiorese, CEO of La Linea.
A video instead seems to support the hypothesis of the illness : «You can see the bus, a very heavy vehicle because it is electric - says Fiorese - just before falling from the overpass. The vehicle arrives, slows down, brakes. He's almost at a standstill when he breaks through the guard rail."
(Unioneonline/D)
