Terrible Saturday in Cosentino. There are five victims (four women and one man) of the head-on collision which occurred in the early afternoon in the Fiego tunnel, along the State Road 107 Silana Crotonese in San Fili. The 50-year-old driving a Jaguar, Alfredo Spizzirri, 84-year-old Annamaria Sicilia and 86-year-old Carmela Sicilia (the man’s mother and aunt), as well as the 82-year-old driver of the other car, driving an Opel Mokka, lost their lives instantly. The last of the five victims, 44-year-old Barbara Beltrano (Spizzirri’s companion), had arrived in desperate conditions at the Annunziata hospital in Cosenza: she was also traveling in the Jaguar involved in the impact with the Opel.
Spizzirri, a well-known entrepreneur from Cosenza, managed a construction and accommodation company in the Cosenza area and was very active in particular in Rende sul Tirreno (in Fuscaldo), but also in Cosenza, where he managed a B&B, Margot residence.
The firefighters of the Cosenza provincial command reconstructed the picture, who intervened with the support of the Rende detachment. The rescue machine was impressive: the operations center promptly sent three 118 ambulances, while the SUEM medics arrived by helicopter. The Carabinieri were also on site to carry out relevant investigations and manage traffic conditions, as well as ANAS personnel to restore safety conditions.
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The stretch of SS 107 affected by the accident was closed to traffic in both directions for several hours: traffic has now resumed regularly.