A family from Rosario who lived several years ago in the city of Casilda, lost their lives on Saturday after being involved in a shocking road accident on Provincial Route 41, near the Buenos Aires town of San Miguel del Monte, when they were returning from vacation in the Atlantic Coast.
As a consequence of the violent episode, the couple made up of Fiama Castiglioni and Federico Benvenutto, and their children Giovanni, six years old, and Martina, three. The family was traveling in a Peugeot 408 car and collided head-on with a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van.
Federico Benvenutto was a lawyer and a professor at the Sagrada Familia School in Casilda, and his wife Fiama Castiglioni was a catechism teacher at the Misericordia School in Casilda, and was studying to become a Primary Education teacher at the Manuel Leiva Higher Teachers Institute No. 1, in the same town.
The couple and their eldest son died at the scene of the road accident, while the three-year-old girl lost her life after being taken to a hospital in critical condition due to the severe multiple injuries she suffered..
Meanwhile, in the largest vehicle were moving two people who suffered injuries.
The driver of the same was charged in the case for the sinister road that was filed in the judicial department of La Plata with the title of “culpable homicide.”
Route 41 is used by many tourists from the province of Santa Fe to travel by car to the Atlantic coast. Precisely, this family that lived in Casilda came back from their vacations. Route 41 crosses the center of the province of Buenos Aires and avoids passing through the Federal Capital and the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, but it is very narrow and in many sections it becomes very dangerous due to the large number of drivers who violate the double yellow line and invade the opposite lane.
“Committed and supportive”
The news of the death of the family of Federico and Fiama, along with their two young children, caused deep pain among all their friends and relatives in Casilda, where this Monday the vacation camp of Club Atlético Unión Casildense will remain closed due to mourning. attended by Giovanni and Martina, and the Instituto Verdeagua, where Fiama Castiglioni and little Giovanni attended, and where the municipal mayor, Andrés Golosetti, this Sunday posted his condolences on Facebook.
“They were a very close family, very good people, always very committed and supportive, to the extreme that they did not miss any meeting,” Professor Judit Bartomioli, director of the “Uniditos” Kindergarten, told La Capital, where until recently they attended little Giovanni and Martina.
The Casildense Union Club published a text on its Facebook profile in which it stated: “Tricolor family: due to the road accident that occurred on Saturday where the members of the Benvenutto family lost their lives, our institution will suspend the activity of the Vacation Colony Monday. The Benvenutto family is a member of the club and an active participant in our different disciplines. From our institution we send our deepest condolences to all his family and friends.
In the same way, Fiama Castiglioni and his son Giovanni participated in the activities of the Verdeagua Institute, in Casilda, which suspended the aquatic classes this Monday and said goodbye to them like this on their social networks: “To the entire Verdeagua community: we regret having to share so sad news. Last Saturday, January 14, the Benvenutto family, from our town, suffered a fatal accident, in which its four members lost their lives. Fiama Castiglioni and her little son Giovanni were part of our Verdeagua family. For this reason, classes will not be held at our institution on Monday. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.”
The tragedy also made a deep impression on the Manuel Leiva Higher Institute for Teachers, where Fiama Castilgioni was studying Primary Education. “The educational community of the Instituto Superior del Profesorado Nº 1 Manuel Leiva regrets with deep pain the death of the student Fiama Castiglioni, a student of the Primary Teaching Staff. We are shocked by the news of the sinister road accident in which Fiama, her husband and their little son and daughter lost their lives. We embrace with solidarity her relatives and her classmates, we will always remember her with her kind and kind smile”, professors Hugo Lanas and Sandra Michelón, director and regent of the institution, published on the institutional Facebook.
Fiama Castiglioni worked as a catechism teacher at the Misericordia College in Casilda, where she was fired with this post on Facebook: “Dear Mercy family: with immense pain we must share that yesterday the teacher Fiama Castiglioni died in a tragic accident. and his family. It is very difficult to understand the Lord’s designs from our little humanity, but our faith allows us to believe that they are already living at Easter with Jesus. We pray for them, for their eternal rest and for their family so that they can find comfort. We put you in prayer, under the mantle of Mary, our Heavenly Mother.”.
In addition, The municipal mayor of Casilda, Andrés Golosetti, posted his condolences on Facebook: “I deeply regret the death of a family that has been residents of our beloved city for years and natives of Rosario, who lost his life in a tragic traffic accident near La Plata. My heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Fiama Castiglioni, Federico Benvenutto and his children Giovanni and Martina. We raise our prayers, the pain is immeasurable “.
