"The child is dead, I am dead too." He repeated this sentence more than once, to his lawyer and to the agents of the Municipal Police and the Polstrada, Emilio Pozzolo, the 37-year-old from Cagliari who overwhelmed and killed yesterday in via Cadello Daniele Ulver, the child of just 15 months who at edge of the stroller pushed by the mother was crossing on the pedestrian crossing.
The man did not stop to help them and fled, hid the scooter and called his lawyer Riccardo Floris, also expressing the will to take his own life.
It was precisely the lawyer who pushed him to turn himself in: “He was and is in shock, he is desperate and realizes that he has destroyed Daniele's family and his own. He is a father too, ”says the lawyer.
Emilio Pozzolo could not ride that bike, a Honda 750, in 2017 his license was revoked forever following a conviction dating back to 2012. Yesterday he borrowed the bike from a friend and started driving.
THE INVESTIGATIONS - The scooter, made to find by the 37-year-old himself after he was constituted, was seized by the municipal police, which is carrying out all the investigations to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the accident.
A job that will be simplified by an eyewitness . Today one of the motorists who were in columns in via Cadello at the time of the tragedy, called the brigade to tell what he had seen: "I gave priority to my mother, who was crossing the pedestrian crossing with the child in the stroller, then the scooter arrived. it overwhelmed both of us ”, the witness anticipated, who will be heard in the minutes in the next few hours.
His words will be correlated with Pozzolo's statements: the man told his lawyer that he did not see the stroller because it was dazzled by the sun.
THE PAIN OF CAGLIARI - The whole city is in shock: since this morning in via Cadello there has been a silent procession of residents and acquaintances of the family, who have left flowers, toys, soft toys and messages of closeness on the site of the tragedy .
The bishop of Cagliari , Monsignor Giuseppe Baturi, also grieved. “It is an accident that strikes to the heart the things we love most, the children and the promise of life - his words -. This is why we entrust little Daniel to the mercy of God ”.
CITIZEN MOURNING AND INSECURE ROADS - The Municipality of Cagliari is ready to proclaim city mourning. "This was immediately the intention of the administration", explains the mayor Truzzu. “We are in contact with the family and are just waiting for the date of the funeral to be indicated. That will be the day of mourning ".
Today the coroner Roberto Demontis carried out an external examination on the child's body and tomorrow the clearance for the funeral should arrive.
Meanwhile, in the Town Hall, work is being done to find a solution to the resurgence of accidents involving pedestrians: recently they also occurred in viale Poetto and via Bacaredda.
"The time has come to ask ourselves about road and urban safety in Cagliari", underlines Marcello Polastri, president of the municipal commission for Safety and Heritage, suggesting raised pedestrian crossings in the streets most crossed by pedestrians, bumps and fixed speed camera positions.
However, Polastri himself remarked: "It is quite clear that the fault of this tragedy should not be sought on the road, because it is well known what happened". In short, the fault lies with those who run, those who overtake at the pedestrian crossing, not the streets, he wanted to emphasize.
(Unioneonline / L)