2023-10-05 05:54:54
All 21 people who died in the bus crash in Mestre, near Venice, northern Italy, have been identified. Nine Ukrainians, four Romanians and three Germans, were killed, as was the Italian bus driver, a spokesman for the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, announced on Wednesday evening. Other deaths came from Portugal, South Africa and Croatia. They also included a small child.
Identifying the victims was problematic because many tourists on board the crashed shuttle bus had no documents with them. For unknown reasons, the bus fell from a bridge onto railway tracks and caught fire. This is another reason why establishing identity is complicated. The deceased were laid out in the Mestre mortuary, where family members traveled.
A young Croatian who was on her honeymoon with her husband died on the bus. The couple from Split got married on September 10th. The deceased was six months pregnant. Her husband is seriously injured in the hospital in the city of Mirano, Italian media reported.
18 people were injured, five of them in mortal danger, including a small child. Three days of mourning were declared in the Venice region because of the accident. The Senate in Rome held a minute’s silence on Wednesday to honor the dead.
The accident sparked a debate in Italy regarding dilapidated infrastructure. The question of guardrail safety on roads and highways is coming back into the spotlight. Just like on July 28, 2013, when a bus fell from a viaduct on the A16 near Monteforte Irpino in the southern Italian region of Campania. 40 people were killed in the accident.
“Many of our roads are still inadequately protected. On many arteries, the protection devices are outdated,” warned Alfonso Montella, professor of roads, railways and airports at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Federico II University in Naples.
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