Matilda Hidri was unable to avoid the SUV of a Milanese madly launched at full speed in the fast lane. Also involved was a family traveling on a third car, including a 4-year-old child
Casei Gerola – An error. A distraction. Maybe the heat and the tiredness. We will never know. The result, however, was a terrible road accident: two dead, three seriously injured including a four-year-old child. Those who lost their lives were Giuseppe Garavaglia, a 46-year-old resident of Novate Milanese, and Matilda Hidri, a 35-year-old from Genoa. A family of foreigners, a father, a four-year-old son, was also injured, and the father’s cousin was also on board: no one would be in danger of life, but one was injured in the face and was taken to San Raffaele in Milan by helicopter rescue , the other two were instead accompanied to the San Matteo in Pavia. On board the two cars destroyed by the violent impact, there was no one but the drivers.
The reconstruction of the Assago traffic police, responsible for the section, and of the operations room of the Milan-Serravalle motorway concession, will still be verified.
However, it seems from the data collected so far, that around 14:50 the Volvo SUV driven by Giuseppe Garavaglia entered the Casei Gerola tollbooth, mistaking direction and taking the lane for Genoa, but instead proceeding towards Milan for 4.2 kilometers. How he could have made such a mistake is difficult to understand. To take the wrong direction in that stretch of road, you have to perform two unusual actions for those who use the motorways: go into the other lane, skipping the double line, and turn left unnaturally, since you arrive from a continuous curve to the right of almost 360 degrees. The fact is that Garavaglia took the highway in the wrong direction. He continued, without paying any attention to the traffic coming against him.
A very dangerous situation that lasted at least three minutes according to the records of the operations room. Time to enter the Casei Gerola tollbooth, which is at kilometer 50 of the motorway, take the junction in reverse and start the opposite route for almost five kilometers.
Five kilometers of fear
In fact, the accident occurred between kilometer 45.7 and 45.8. A tragedy. A crash between Garavaglia’s car and the other two, Matilda Hidri’s BMW and the Golf in which there was an entire family.
Therefore, an error related to the work in progress near the bridge over the Po is excluded, where there is actually a lane change regulated by mobile signals and anti-climb barriers. The construction site, however, traveling in the wrong direction in the direction taken by the car that caused the accident, is located several kilometers to the north.
Highway blocked
The motorway section between Gropello Cairoli and Casei Gerola remained closed to traffic for a long time, with an obligatory exit at the Gropello Cairoli tollbooth for those coming from Milan and heading to Genoa. Traffic returned to normal only around 7pm. On site, ambulances and 118 doctors, firefighters, traffic police patrols, helicopter rescue departed from Alessandria and the Valle self-rescue for recovery. of the means.
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