She does not remember having engaged the handbrake, but the woman who yesterday parked her car a few meters from the "Primo Maggio" kindergarten in L'Aquila cannot rest, and the vehicle suddenly moved, breaking through the gate of the school and overwhelming the children who were playing in the garden. 4-year-old Tommaso lost his life , while five others were injured but not seriously.
“I saw the car pass in front, I tried to stop it even with my hands but I couldn't . And the car hit the children and broke the fence, ”said the woman, now under investigation for road murder .
She is also a mother, in the Passat there was also her 12-year-old son whom someone would have even seen in the driver's seat while trying to move the steering wheel of the car approaching the kindergarten. But the woman says quite the opposite: "During the race my son tried to get out of the car banging his head inside the passenger compartment. My whole family and I cannot give each other peace, this tragedy will mark us for life. We are shocked . , grieved ".
"I parked the car on the plain - these are his words -, I engaged the gear, I don't remember having engaged the handbrake", which in the 2010 Passat is electronic, and will be at the center of the report entrusted by the Public Prosecutor's Office : it will be necessary to clarify whether the car moved on the descent due to the negligence of the woman or due to a breakdown, or due to the intervention of the 12-year-old left on board and who, having already listened to the presence of a psychologist, recalled little or nothing.
(Unioneonline / ss)