Crushed by the trailer body of the lorry carrying rubbish in front of him. A 40-year-old was seriously injured, extracted by the firefighters from the sheet metal of the van he was driving and rushed to hospital with the helicopter rescue. The road accident occurred around 9:30 on Friday 29 January at kilometer 14 of the Via Aurelia, in the Malagrotta area.
According to what was reconstructed by the agents of the XIII Aurelio Group of the Local Police of Rome Capital who intervened on the spot for the relief of the accident, the heavy vehicle for transporting the waste was traveling along the Via Aurelia when, in an uphill stretch of the Strada Statale 1, it lost the heavy dump he carried in the truck trailer. Behind him traveled a van, a Citroen Jumper, with the driver who could do nothing to avoid being crushed by the box lost by the truck in front of him.
Left crushed in the passenger compartment under the weight of the body, to extract the 40-year-old from the sheets, the intervention of the firefighters was necessary through the use of the hydraulic cutting unit, intervened on site with the operational staff of Cerveteri, Monte Mario, the Usar team, the crane (AG / 10) and the Provincial shift supervisor.
Although conscious, the conditions of the driver of the van immediately appeared serious with the same entrusted to the care of the 118 staff who then urgently transported him by air ambulance to the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in red code.
Several patrols of the local police intervened at km 14 of the SS1, with the white helmets who proceeded to close the stretch of via Aurelia where the accident occurred in both directions, with the traffic diverted to via di Malagrotta and via di Casal Selce.
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