Aosta, 22 January 2022 – Un bus of tourists nine seats with 4 people on board this afternoon around 18.30 it is finished in the Evancon stream in Val d’Ayas, near the town of Champoluc (Aosta), a renowned ski resort at the foot of the Monte Rosa. Driver dead. He was called Roberto Arrigoni, he was 61 years old, he was from Saint-Vincent. The prosecutor on duty of Aosta will evaluate whether to arrange for legal medical examinations.
To ascertain whether the cause of death is linked to an illness that did lose control of the medium to man. They have been recovered the three passengers swedes, a couple of 75 and 77 years old and a woman of 67, 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 whole carriageway, then ripped off the protections and ended up in the water in the Avencon stream, “explains the mayor of Ayas, Alex Brunod.
The firefighters, a technician from the Aosta Valley mountain rescue, the carabinieri, the forestry corps and three 118 ambulances intervened on the spot. Two military men of the weapon they jumped into the water to recover the driver who showed no signs of life and the attempts to revive him were useless, once he was taken out of the stream.
“I – tells the Ansa one of the rescuers who arrived at a later time – I gave a hand with the heart massage, to pull the driver away from the bed of the stream. We took him to the level of the road where we continued to massage him. many people were 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 go back to beating “.
They operated on the spot also Fire fighters and a guide from Alpine rescue Aosta Valley that was in the area. To provide first aid, a helicopter rescue technician.
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