Accident on the A1, one dead and three wounded: Highway closed for several hours – The Messenger

Odyssey in Autosole beginning of the great exodus to the August holidays: two incidents that occurred last night (between about midnight and one o’clock) in just over a km away from Piacenza and Parma to Bologna, involvement of lorries and cars, have caused a long paralysis of traffic between North and South.

The reopening of the section was announced at 12.12 by Autostrade for Italy: runoff vehicles queued proceed with an operation of ‘safety car’ conducted by the Traffic Police. The budget is a dead woman – Sonia Baiocchi, 52, of Sorbolo (Parma) – and several wounded, including one seriously (milder conditions of a child), pigs wandering for hours on the road and in nearby fields after the overturning of Tir which animals traveled, traffic jams on the A1 (up to 13 km and over) and the Via Emilia, where have poured vehicles which fortunately are not stuck sull’Autosole.

To the north, to complete the picture, 7km queue for onlookers. Civil Defence personnel and Aspi, emphasizes the company Autostrade who put in the street all the staff, have begun as soon as possible the distribution of fresh water to people parked in the sun, although many motorists have complained that they were not achieved by relief. Fermi, with perceived temperatures of over 40 degrees, even children and the elderly. In the morning the health of the 118 have intervened to help people with minor illnesses, complicit in the great heat and the heat. The first crash just before midnight to km.102, near the entrance to the A15.

A collision between two trucks involved a car: to free the occupants of the car were made by the brigade fire. A woman died, her husband wounded and hospitalized in the Orthopedics Major of Parma. One of the trucks lost load on the roadway. After about an hour, at one o’clock, in the same direction to km.100 +700 clashed three Tir (including the carrying pigs, which rolled over) and a car was traveling on a Lombard family, with a child of five years: the little reported minor injuries, his mother was admitted to the orthopedic fractures, the most serious conditions of his father, under observation in the emergency medicine department. Inside the closed section formed a long queue, while the company Autostrade suggested alternative routes.

Who was traveling to Bologna was hijacked on the A21, then continue to the A7, A12, A11 with return to A1 at the Firenze. To whom it was still traveling was advised to delay the departure, or on the A4 to the junction with the A22, then continue to the junction with the A1. With Traffic Police, 118, fire brigade, civil defense and municipal police parmigiana were also engaged veterinary AUSL and staff of the City of Parma for the ‘hunting pigs wandering in the street and nearby fields.