The toll from an independent road accident that occurred this night in Roccalumera is five injured, one of whom is in serious condition. It was 1.45am when a violent crash occurred on the Cristoforo Colombo seafront involving a Renault Clio traveling towards Messina with five young people on board. Once in the northern area of the town, when taking a semi-curve, the car skidded and crashed into a Fiat Punto parked in the mountain side stalls, thrown onto a Fiat Seicento which in turn hit a Fiat Panda, thrown onto the pavement.
After the impact, the Clio spun and ended up on the pavement on the sea side, stuck between the seafront wall and a tree. The ones who suffered the most serious consequences were the driver and the passenger sitting next to him, who were injured and stuck inside the Renault, while the three passengers sitting behind, two girls and a boy who were minors from Nizza di Sicilia, managed to get out through the window and rear window.
Some passing motorists gave first aid and extracted the two injured people from the destroyed car, which in the meantime risked catching fire. They were rescued shortly afterwards by the 118 ambulances and transferred to the Polyclinic. The driver, a 31-year-old from Calatabiano, suffered a head injury but remained alert, while the passenger, a 16-year-old also from Calatabiano, was more seriously injured with multiple traumas and fractures and after arriving at the hospital he was transferred to the intensive care unit and was intubated. Two injured girls went to hospital on their own, while the fifth passenger left shortly after the accident. Also on site were the Carabinieri from the Roccalumera station and the firefighters from the Letojanni detachment.