Castelsardo, car crashes into ambulance and patient on board dies: woman behind the wheel acquitted
The vehicle, according to what was reconstructed, had arrived at breakneck speed and the 48-year-old would not have been able to see it. The two healthcare workers who ended up on trial for failing to secure the patient to the stretcher were acquitted due to the statute of limitations of the crime
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A sudden death while, in December 2013 , she was transported by ambulance to the emergency room in Sassari due to respiratory failure. But in Lu Bagnu, a hamlet of Castelsardo , the emergency vehicle, which was traveling under yellow code, crashes into a car that was about to turn as it travels.
A terrible impact which projects the car of the woman behind the wheel thirty meters ahead, causes the ambulance to break through a concrete flowerbed and, above all, causes the death of the lady on a stretcher due to a ruptured aorta.
For this episode three people go to trial, the motorist and two healthcare workers, accused of manslaughter.
Yesterday in court in Sassari the decision of judge Valentina Nuvoli acquitted the two due to the statute of limitations of the crime, and the 48 year old because the fact does not exist .
During the discussion, the latter's lawyer, Luigi Satta, points out the critical conditions experienced by his client at the time of the crime, such as the impossibility of spotting the ambulance and the high speed of the vehicle that arrived on top of the driver, underlines the lawyer, “like a missile”.
She was charged with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act in violation of road safety regulations, while for the healthcare workers, defended by lawyers Ilaria Pinna and Pina Zappetto, the accusation was that of not having secured the patient to the stretcher.
Prosecutor Ilaria Achenza had asked for eight months for the 48-year-old.
