Seven foreign tourists, including an Italian compatriot born in Milan, They died yesterday in a road accident between a pick-up and a passenger van in Idaho, about 24 km from the Yellowstone National Park. Italian and Chinese tourists were involved in the accident, and both vehicles caught fire after the accident. Local authorities reported it. The Italian consulate in San Francisco follows the story.
Six of the victims were aboard the van, a Mercedes, who transported 14 people. The driver of the pick-up, a Dodge Ram, is also dead. The accident occurred on the US Highway 20 near Henry’s Lake, a popular destination for excursions on foot, by bicycle and fishing in the Eastern Aidah, about 24 km from Yellowstone. The cause of the tragedy is under investigation. According to the Chinese agency Xinhua, cited by the US media, there are five dead Chinese and eight injured.
To identify the victims of the road accident near the Yellowstone park, the DNA test was necessary for their bodies to have been made unrecognizable after the cars fire. The US media report it. The coroner managed to identify only the driver – and the only occupant – of the pickup without the DNA test: Isaiah Moreno, 25 years old, of Texas. There are no other Italians injured in the road accident near Yellowstone in the USA.