Zanardi accident, expert: “I was going 50 km per hour, truck driver at 38. Towards the absence of guilt”



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These are the conclusions reached by engineer Mattia Strangi, technical consultant for the truck driver investigated for very serious injuries due to the accident that occurred on June 19. The two speeds are within the legal limits and would also be confirmed in the consultation carried out on behalf of the Siena Prosecutor’s Office. According to Strangi, reports show how Zanardi “has lost control of his handbike around corners.”

“Alex Zanardi with his handbike was traveling at 50 km per hour before impact with the truck that was traveling at 38 km per hour”. To do this, he had the support of engineer Mattia Strangi from the University of Bologna, technical consultant for the truck driver investigated for very serious injuries in the accident that occurred on June 19 between Pienza and San Quirico d’Orcia (Siena). That day the handbike of the former pilot and Paralympic champion (WHO IS) collided with the heavy vehicle during a stage of the “Obiettivo tricolore” relay race.

Speed ​​within the allowed limits

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The two speeds, both within the legal limits allowed, as learned, would also be confirmed in the consultancy carried out on behalf of the Siena Public Ministry by engineer Dario Vangi, a professor at the University of Florence. Both consultations took place in mid-September.

“It would go towards the absence of fault in the accident”

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The engineer Strangi, after learning the new details about the accident, commented that “we would go towards the absence of fault”. According to him, the appraisals show that Zanardi “lost control of his handbike when cornering and thus overturned due to oversteer and then hit the left front wheel of the truck.” In addition, from the same evaluations, it is clear that the condition of the road and the operation of the handbike would have had no problems.

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The train conductor is the only one investigated in the investigation opened by the Siena prosecutor’s office, an act defined as “due” precisely to allow technical investigations (IMAGES OF THE ACCIDENT SITE). Alex Zanardi, a former Formula 1 driver, will turn 54 on October 23: after losing his legs in 2001, over the years he has conquered the world with his exploits pedaling his tricycle with his arms. Following the accident, he was hospitalized for a month in Siena hospital before being transferred to a rehabilitation clinic in the province of Lecco and then to San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

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In recent days, updates have arrived from the Lombard capital about his state of health: when listening to recordings of voices and music that are familiar to him, the athlete would have started to react. Small gestures, eye movements, first signs of interaction. “Important advances”, according to the San Raffaele medical bulletin, before which “doctors reiterate, however, the persistence of a complex general clinical picture, on whose prognosis it is absolutely premature to unbalance”.

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