Serious accident in New York , where a crazy car hit 7 people on the pedestrian crossing . In the group also two Italian tourists , on their last day of vacation in the United States. It happened in Midtown Manhattan on 36th Street and Sixth Avenue just before midnight. The rescue machine was immediately activated: 5 people were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, one would be in critical condition.
The motorist - a 29-year-old - did not stop to help. Running a red light at the wheel of a Honda Accord, after the accident she continued her race heading towards the Midtown tunnel, then crashed into other cars in Queens. Stopped by the police, she was arrested . At the moment it is excluded that the fact is intentional or linked to a terrorist action.
In the group mowed down by the car on the pedestrian crossing, also the two spouses from Piacenza , Matteo Maj (51 years old, graphic designer) and Giulia Gardani (34 years old, federal tennis instructor). The two, as told by Monica Maj, Matteo's sister, were in New York as the last stop on a trip to the USA which had also taken them to Chicago and Boston, and they should have returned to Italy today. Maj - according to what is reported - was recently operated on for a facial trauma and in the next few hours he will still end up under the knife for an operation on the tibia and fibula, while Gardani, who arrived in the emergency room in serious condition, underwent a long operation of five hours for an injury to the cervical vertebrae.
(Unioneonline/vf)