“Uncoordinated Traffic Lights and Technical Problems in Piazza delle Cinque Giornate: Possible Causes of Recent Accident”

A video lasting a few seconds which demonstrates how the traffic light system in Piazza delle Cinque Giornate, in Prati – last night, however, haywire – is affected by sudden malfunctions caused by unspecified technical problems. To provide it to the traffic police it was a taxi driver who shot it, demonstrating – according to his version of events – that that intersection is dangerous precisely because the lights for motorists and the one for the tram driver are not coordinated with each other.

It could be the turning point in ascertaining responsibility in the accident of 16 April with 12 injured, including the Lazio striker Cyrus Immobilethe two daughters aged 10 and 8, the driver of an Atac convoy on line 19 and eight passengers. None of them in a serious way, so much so that the Biancoceleste striker immediately returned to the field.

Just on Tuesday evening some trams remained blocked in the same square for a technical problem on the line. Replacement lines with buses have been activated and checks have been carried out on the functioning of the traffic lights. It is not excluded a contact side between two trams of line 19 which are then stop at the height of the central square.

Right from the start immediately after the very violent crash of the footballer’s Land Rover SUV against the tram cab, both drivers confirmed on several occasions that they were passed with the green. Their positions were also strengthened by a motorist who had reported having witnessed the accident stopped with his car running red on Ponte Matteotti (and Immobile would then have had green) as well as the passengers of 19 who had said they had seen moving the convoy with the green. On the regular operation of traffic lights however, Roma Mobilità had intervened, but investigations are now underway by the police to understand if what was recently filmed by the taxi driver could also have happened that Sunday morning in which death was risked.