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Minibus with Swedish tourists falls into a stream in Valle d’Aosta: the driver is dead, the three passengers extracted

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A 9-seater van used for transporting tourists ended up in a stream in the heart of the ski resort of Champoluc, at the foot of Monte Rosa. The toll of the accident is one dead and three injured. The victim is the driver, a 71-year-old Italian, while the passengers, a couple of 75 and 77 and a woman of 67, all of Swedish nationality, were taken to the emergency room of the Parini hospital in Aosta. The spouses are not serious, while the other woman suffered trauma under evaluation.

The vehicle was traveling along the regional road 45 of the Ayas valley towards the valley when the driver lost control shortly after 6pm. “It was in rue Dondeynaz, just before the square in Champoluc. The van crossed the entire carriageway, then ripped off the guards and ended up in the water in the Evan streamleads, explains the mayor of Ayas, Alex Brunod. One of the hypotheses is that the driver was the victim of an illness before leaving the road at the height of the bridge that crosses the watercourse.

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The firefighters, a technician from the Aosta Valley mountain rescue, the carabinieri, the forestry corps and three 118 ambulances intervened. Two soldiers from the Arma dived into the water to retrieve the driver who showed no signs of life and were worth nothing attempts to revive him, once he is taken out of the stream.

“I helped to pull the driver away from the river bed – says a rescuer – We took him to the street level where we continued to massage him. Many people had gathered. At one point two tourists arrived, resuscitators doctors : they checked his condition and stopped everything: we had been trying to revive him for more than ten minutes and there was no sign that his heart could start beating again “.

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