To experience the pain up close, you need to reach the kilometre marker 33+900 of the old State Road 108, which on the maps is indicated as the “Silana di Cariati” road, and crosses a portion of Lorica in the territory of Manco’s Farmhouses. A ribbon of asphalt traced in the middle of the uncertain geography of a territory that has never been a straight line between high mountains and sheer valleys. Many people travel it every day, stories that cross, lives that brush against each other. And, every now and then, that disappear forever.
And it is there that, this afternoon, for reasons still being investigated, the car in which two people were travelling met its fate. Right at that point, the road seemed to suddenly narrow like a tenacious threat in the solitude of a Calabria suffocated by a thousand emergencies. The cars immediately lined up waiting for help that arrived with a 118 ambulance and with the vehicles of the Anas and the Fire Brigade. The air ambulance, however, was unable to take off due to a bank of clouds that were too low. which made the intervention impossible. The paramedics helped a man who was quickly taken to the hospital with multiple traumas and wounds. Nothing could be done, however, for a young woman.
The hope of saving her life faded in the face of her heart that stopped beating too soon. She was Ilaria Mirabelli, a very well-known face in the Cosenza fan circles. And the news of her tragic end has provoked emotional reactions all the way to Mantua (where the rossoblù team is playing the championship match tonight). The supporters, in addition to having dedicated a post to her on social media, have tied up banners and flags, observing silence in memory of their friend, “a good, kind and smiling face, always in love with these colors”.
At the scene of the tragedy, in the meantime, the police have taken photographic and planimetric surveys to try to reconstruct Ilaria’s last trip. Anas personnel, on the other hand, have worked to restore the road circulation that was blocked for a long time. A detailed report has been sent to the head of the Cosenza prosecutors, Antonio D’Alessio, for the formal procedures.