Villagrande Tragedy: Guardrail Seized: It Couldn't Withstand Impact

The guardrail failed to withstand the impact of the Volkswagen Golf traveling toward Tortolì, the town where the three workers who died in yesterday's tragic accident were supposed to go to buy groceries . The sheet metal barrier post gave way, leaving it suspended in mid-air.

On orders from the magistrate on duty, Valentina Vitolo, the Carabinieri of the Villagrande station seized the guardrail .

In the tragedy that occurred yesterday morning shortly after 11:00 , Thamer Hamouda Ramzy Shehabeld, Ahmed Tafrih Ghandoyr Ahmed Sharweda, both 33, and 36-year-old Rizk Mohamed , three Egyptian workers who had been in Sardinia for a few days, employed by a construction company in Pavia who were building the new bridge over the Figu Niedda river.

Perhaps for the first time, they were traveling Provincial Road 27, the "road of death." A cemetery of crosses. The victims are remembered with gravestones, sunflowers, and hydrangeas. In some places, the road has no guardrails or signs warning of imminent danger.

The tragedy occurred at a critical point that, in reality, should no longer have existed if the competent authorities had implemented the intervention planned in 2008 and funded with 9 million euros. The new Sothai bridge would have spared the three Egyptian workers from having to travel on those sharp curves and alongside ravines protected by overly fragile guardrails .

"There is no money for the work. In reality , the resources are available in the coffers of the Province of Nuoro, which is holding them back and not passing them on to the Province of Ogliastra ," Alessio Seoni , mayor of Villagrande and president of the newly formed Province of Ogliastra, blurted out while witnessing the recovery operations of the bodies.

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