The impact was fatal for Maria Polcino di Montepaone, Sixty years old last February and mother of two children. He died following the serious road accident that occurred on the “transversal of the greenhouses” in the late evening of Saturday, near the junction for the Municipality of Argusto. A stretch where the road does not allow to overcome the ninety kilometers. Two cars were involved in the clash. A Fiat Panda conducted by the woman’s husband and a Volkswagen Tiguan conducted by a man from Torre di Ruggiero who was returning home with his mother on board.
The budget of the accident is serious because in addition to the woman who has lost her life There are three other injured peopleone of which, in critical conditions, was extracted from the sheets thanks to the intervention of the firefighters.
Fortunately, two children who were aboard the Panda and with their parents were returning home to Montepone after visiting some relatives of Argusto. A medical and health personnel of 118 of the Chiaravalle house station in Chiaravalle worked on the spot with the Fire Brigade. Due to the gravity of the two injuries, shelter was necessary at the Soverato hospital where they arrived in ambulance. For both head trauma and multiple bruises in various parts of the body also because of the outbreak of the airbags.
According to a first reconstruction, the impact was violent. The driver of Volkswagen Tiguan would have found himself in front of the Panda. He did not have time to be able to dodge the car. It is assumed that the Panda driver did not take the right exit of Argusto towards the area leading to the Ionian coastal band. Mandatory entrance to get to the Gagliato junction.
