Investigators are working to clarify the reasons why a bus fell from an overpass on a straight section of the road to Venice, in northwest Italy, causing 21 deaths, all of them foreigners except the driver, an Italian, and 15 injured, of which two are Spanish. Prosecutors are examining two main hypotheses about the causes of the tragedy: a risky maneuver or that the guardrail was too old to support the weight of the bus and all this along with the possibility that the driver would feel bad and not control the vehicle.

“There are currently no investigations while the protective fence of the bus, the drop zone of the bus and the vehicle itself have been seized,” Venice prosecutor Bruno Cherchi confirmed to the media, as well as the vehicle’s black box was acquired. The Italian media today highlights in their reports that the guardrail was old and had not been replaced for a long time and In addition, two meters of protective fence were missing. right in the area where the bus fell into the void. However, the mobility councilor of Venice, Renato Boraso, explained that the lack of 1.50 meters in the barrier is a crossing point, an access point for security reasons, for maintenance.”

“It’s not that a meter and a half prevents the fall,” said Boraso, assuring that the bus fell “25 meters later.” The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, He assured that the accident was not the fault of the guardrail and warned of what he considered to be the danger of electric car batteries, like the crashed bus, because “they catch fire faster than other forms of energy.” After one day, the 21 deceased in the accident could be identified, including two boys and a 13-year-old girl, who are nine Ukrainians, four Romanians, three Germans, one Croatian, two Portuguese and one South African, and the driver, an Italian. , 40 years old.

Two Spaniards are among the 15 injured in the traffic accident and they are a man, who is hospitalized in Treviso, and a 52-year-old woman, who was admitted to the Padua hospital because she had significant burns. The director of the University Hospital of Padua, Giuseppe Dal Ben, explained that a 4-year-old Ukrainian girl and a 52-year-old Spanish woman “in very serious condition”. “We are doing everything and more to try to get to the bottom of the very serious problems they have,” Dal Ben said in a statement sent to all media on Wednesday.

Regarding the status of both, Dal Ben explained: “Unfortunately there is a little of everything given the dynamics of the accident, the issue of burns being especially important. We are carrying out all the necessary treatments, both surgical and medical, with the hope of having positive answers in this regard.” Among the twenty-one victims of the bus that crashed last night on an overpass in Mestre is also a young Croatian woman, about twenty years old. , who was on her honeymoon with her husband, while the man is hospitalized in Mestre.