After the social appeal - and on the L'Unione Sarda website - he found his "angel". Arianna Fadda, the 25-year-old barmaid from Sestu who had a bad accident a week ago in Selargius - on the SS 554 - managed to trace the man without a name who, while other rescuers put out the fire of her Opel Corsa with a fire extinguisher in which she was stuck, he held her hand and encouraged her until help arrived. "He saved my life, I want to thank him," he wrote on his Facebook profile. Yesterday afternoon the long-awaited phone call from her rescuer, a 51-year-old bricklayer, while she is still hospitalized in the Brotzu Surgery ward: "I can't wait to meet him."

The crash and the fear

The incident dates back to 13 September. At 6.30 in the morning Arianna Fadda drove along 554, like every day, to go to work in Geremeas. After the traffic lights the unexpected: everyone slows down when they go red, she too, but in an attempt to change lanes she loses control of the car and goes off the road, without involving other vehicles. “My car overturned and I was crushed underneath as the car started to catch fire,” she says. "A nightmare, and even today I can't understand what happened."

Then the wait, the arrival of the firefighters and the 118, and the rush to the hospital with a red code. "I was operated on urgently in the afternoon," recalls the girl, "now I have eight screws in my back, three plates, fifteen stitches on my head, and a twenty percent chance that I will be able to walk again." In fact, the risk is that it can remain paralyzed from the pelvis downwards. "I have no sensitivity in my legs, I already know that a long period of rehabilitation awaits me, but I want to be positive because I am alive and this is already so much given the dynamics of the accident".