A car goes off the road, crashes into a tree and catches fire. On board are two spouses: she, Lucia Salcone, 47, a housewife, dies and her body is found charred. He, Ciro Caliendo, 46, manages to save himself and suffers burns to his arms, face and hands in a desperate attempt to save his wife.
A scenario that does not convince the investigators, so much so that the Foggia prosecutor's office has opened an investigation and is investigating the husband for voluntary homicide. The accident occurred in the late evening between September 27 and 28 on the provincial road 13 that connects San Severo to Castelnuovo della Daunia in the Foggia area. Something does not add up in the man's story compared to the reconstruction made by the traffic police who intervened with the 118 and the firefighters, and in the initial findings carried out.
The autopsy scheduled for tomorrow in the department of forensic medicine of the Policlinico Riuniti in Foggia could provide the investigators of the flying squad and the prosecutor's office with further elements, just as the expert assessment ordered at the scene of the accident and on the car will also be fundamental.
The man is a well-known agricultural entrepreneur in the area, and is president of the Cia Agrituristi di San Severo as well as president of the Antiche Cantine. In his reconstruction reported by the lawyer, Angelo Masucci, he said that that evening he was returning home with his wife after an evening spent at a pizzeria with friends from the dance school. Since a few weeks earlier he had suffered the theft of 50 quintals of grapes, he had taken to the habit of passing by his land late at night to check that everything was fine.
And that evening he did the same thing with his wife to reach the bottom that is on the road home. A car that was going in the opposite direction with only one parking light invaded the road, forcing him to make a sudden maneuver for which he lost control of the vehicle ending up against the tree. After the impact a fire broke out on board and the man desperately tried to save his wife, getting burned . The flames also destroyed the cell phones, so much so that Caliendo was unable to call for help in a timely manner, which therefore arrived when the woman was already dead.
So far his reconstruction on which the investigation will have to clarify also to give answers to the couple's two children and her family.
(Online Union)
