Collapse the overpass, the truck weighed in at 108 tons: buck Anas-the Province – The Republic

An irr of 108 tons, a load of extraordinary than ordinary, a weight is “probably excessive” for a bridge that already gave signs of yielding. The party alarm and remained stranded between the competencies of Anas and the Province; a victim, five wounded. the On the disaster of the overpass along the Milano-Lecco the public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for manslaughter and disaster culpable, while throughout the night work continued to clear the road, still closed to traffic, from the rubble and remains of the car. A commission of inquiry will be set up by the ministry of Infrastructure, but already a few minutes away from the collapse announced-started the rebound o f responsibility between the Anas and the Province because of the sos launched three hours before the collapse and that piece of paper which would serve to prevent the bridge on the county road 48 at the height Annone Brianza come down. In the viewfinder is the finished weight of the tir, with the national president of Fai Conftrasporto, and vice-president of Confcommercio, Paolo Uggè, reminiscent of the complaint unanswered on “the trucks which are prone to collapsing bridges, but no one says”, and Cinzia Franchini, president of Cna-Fita, which invites us to look in the road transport sector “useful scapegoats”.

The inquiry. The procedure, to the state, is a model 44 then has not been entered in the register of suspects. Registration will take place when they are needed the findings unique. The judiciary in the lecco district was entrusted to the delegation for the investigation to the police and ordered the seizure of the tractor-trailer that has descended on state highway 36 and of the entire structure fall. Have already been identified in the civil engineers who will analyze the materials with which it was built, the overpass, and make calculations to verify its resistance to the weight. The road is frequently travelled by many heavy vehicles and their transition, over time, may have compromised the stability of the bridge. Checks will be made on the actual weight of the exceptional transport, which yesterday ran through the overpass and that could have caused the collapse. In the video Anas, you can see, however, that at the time of the passage of the tir-the o verpass was already damaged. The agents of the police station of Lecco and the traffic police, they have heard all of the ‘actors’ who have played a role in the afternoon yesterday when collapsed the overpass.
as it is known, the investigators felt the staff of Anas spoke on the place, Province, and would have been also collected the testimony of the driver of the tir, the passage of which coincided with the collapse. The Prosecutor’s office of Lecco is also reconstructing the process that led to the authorization of the passage of the load is exceptional on the artifact.

The controversy. On Facebook, the former mayor of Hanno, arguing: “That bridge went down: already 10 years ago, a colleague of Suello, Giuseppe Mauri, and we went to Milan, and among the proposed solutions, caldeggiammo the demolition of the bridge and the reconstruction of the same on the model of the new bridge of Bosisio. We were told so little likeable that it was not our job to take care of these things, and we, not being engineers, we had to go to make good on the mayor. Today we tap mourn the innocent victims and serious injuries!”.

collapse. The stretch of road 36 theatre of tragedy has become the destination of the sad pilgrimage of the people of the place: young, old, even families with children, arrived to see with their own eyes what happened. On-the-spot, yesterday, the deputy minister Riccardo Nencini: “Immediately a commission of inquiry – had assured – all the responsibility should be ascertained quickly. Who has the responsibility to bring the pain of responsibility”. In the night it was recovered the corpse of Claudio Bertini, the 68-year-old of Civate, crushed by the truck, crashed together at the bridge. Bertini was a professor of physical education in the board, and, for years, had become manager of the club Pro Patria. He leaves his

wife and a daughter. The fire department and the technicians have begun to cut into more of the parties to the stretch of the overpass to clear the road, after that yesterday they had been cut into the beams. The road remains interrupted and the traffic diverted along alternative routes. In the morning, the governor Roberto Maroni, explained that the Region, together with the Anas and the minister for Transport Graziano Delrio, intends to make “a reconnaissance of overall infrastructure to see if there were some risk, allocating appropriate resources”. “We as a Region do not have roads, but we’re interested in this overall verification”. The alarm is dropped in a vacuum. the One that the judiciary in Lecco will have to ascertain is if they were the bureaucracy, the lentocrazia, to expose to the deadly risks of motorists passing by and the driver of the tir, after the alarm had started already at 14, three hours before the collapse. A roadman Anas had noticed, in fact, of the d ebris fallen at the height of kilometer 41,900 of the State 36. Anas, as he says – and the fact is, in the course of check – had asked about immediately to close the stretch of road, “having found that the detachment of some rubble from the earthquake. Not only that: “Already about 14″, had suggested, on the contrary, invoked the partial closure of the road, at the overpass. They asked me to act immediately to the Province of Lecco, which, however, according to Anas, had nicchiato: the Province wanted a formal request, which implied “the obligation of a visual inspection and direct part of the agency’s bureau chief Anas”. A procedure maybe formally correct, that has delayed, tragically, the closure of the bridge. In fact, when we arrived the inspector of Anas for the inspection is visual and direct, it was too late.

responsibilities. the One that does not escape the judiciary, it is the game of the buck. “We were doing the inspections and have asked to wait – he had said Flavio Polano, president of the Province of Lecco – this is what I was verbalized”. And again: “The maintenance of the bridge is the responsibility of Anas – he said Polano, who was also the mayor of Malgrate for the Pd and manager of the city of Lecco – because of their properties, while we shall only be entitled to the management of a section of the asphalt.” “The goal was not an ordinance, if Anas was believed to close the road could close it – had supported the charge of Road in the Province of Lecco, Angelo Valsecchi – in an emergency we could close the bridge,” but “the communication from the Anas to the province was not so “explicit”.

The irr, weighed 108 tons. Next to the words, will soon have the documents. The irr was an exceptional transport is authorized by the Province of Lecco, and coils of steel of considerable dimensions and weight, but none had occurred. The transport was organized by the ‘Nicoli Spa of Albino, in the province of Bergamo. The company has been in operation since 1973 and, since 2005, is a joint-stock company. This morning, while continuing to work for the removal, Anas notified the weight of the trailer. “The heavy vehicle had a range of about 108 tons, higher than the ordinary – have made know by the company – and had not been authorized by Anas, which, moreover, did not manage the traffic on the road

the provincial Sp49 where was the seat of the overpass”. The company – for which the collapse is related to the “weight large of exceptional transport – it is entrusted to professor Carmelo Gentile, professor of structural engineering of the Politecnico di Milano: “Already this morning we read in the note – has carried out the first technical investigations on the work collapsed, an overpass built between the Sixties and the Seventies, the Province of Como”.