One year of imprisonment , with conditional suspension, for Mario Delussu , 68-year-old from Goni convicted of road murder for causing the death of 82-year-old Dina Usai , overwhelmed while crossing the road in Senorbì, on February 15, 2020, by the tractor driven by the man.
The tragic accident along via Sanna , at street number 51, near the woman's house.
Delussu, as reconstructed by the magistrate, was driving a "John Deere" tractor owned by him, and was driving along via Sanna towards the center of the town when "not noticing" the presence of the old woman "at that moment" engaged in the crossing road "and" in the middle of the roadway "hit her" causing her death due to serious injuries ".
Delussu was convicted of " imprudence, negligence and inexperience and in the specific violation of Article 191 of the Highway Code", to cite the request for indictment against him made, at the end of the preliminary investigations, by the Public Prosecutor Gaetano Porcu. Also inflicted the ancillary sanction of suspension of the driving license for a further three months in addition to the eight months ordered by the Prefect and already discounted.
Two further aggravating factors for Delussu, and in particular that "the vehicles coming from the opposite direction of the agricultural vehicle had stopped to allow the woman to cross ", and that the tractor proceeded with the front lift arms too high , "raised about one meter from the ground, contrary to what is indicated by the manufacturer which prescribes driving with the loader at about 30 centimeters from the ground, to avoid unbalance of the vehicle and favor the driver's visibility ": in this way, in fact, the driver the side view was fatally closed.
(Unioneonline / vl)
