Banchette, the misfortune in the roundabout leading to Bennet di Pavone 35-year-old hospital. The driver: “I suddenly found it in front of me”
Pedestrian run over while crossing on the strips. It could have been yet another tragedy, yesterday morning, Thursday 30 September, in Banchette in via Circoncvallazione, in the roundabout that disposes of the traffic between those who leave Ivrea, those who want to go or leave Pavone (and in particular from Bennet) and those arriving from high Canavese from the fastest and busiest route, the Pedemontana.
A 35-year-old resident in Banchette paid the price and a 40-year-old woman from Ivory Coast, driving a Renault Twingo, headed for Pavone, hit him.
«I found him in front of me, I didn’t have time to touch the brakes. I was not going fast and I was dazzled by the sun “she told the carabinieri and her testimony which would have been confirmed by a motorist who followed her. The 35-year-old from Banquet was treated on the spot and transported to the Turin CTO. His condition is critical but he is not life threatening. Now, regardless of whether the woman behind the wheel was the victim of a moment of distraction or not, her statements are identical, word for word, to those issued by all the drivers who have run over (in three cases even fatally, as happened to the unfortunate Giuseppe Guiglia, a 67-year-old retired, in 2017) pedestrians and cyclists. “A pedestrian crossing has been placed practically in a half-bend of a busy road (thousands of cars pass through it a day) and, moreover, in some days of the year with the sun that dazzles those arriving in the direction of Pavone – say the residents – But does it cost that much to move it fifty meters later? ‘