At least five people have lost their lives this Saturday in a serious road accident after a head-on collision between two cars inside a tunnel located in the province of Cosenza, in southern Italy, according to what the Italian agency AGI has reported.
In the incident, a passenger car was involved in which four members of the same family were traveling, living in the town of Rende, and another vehicle driven only by an 82-year-old woman, who has died at the scene of the impact.
Among the victims who were traveling in the first car are the driver, a local businessman aged 50 linked to the construction and hospitality sectors, as well as his mother, aged 84, and his aunt, aged 86.
The fourth occupant, aged 44 and the driver’s partner, was evacuated in a very serious condition and transferred by helicopter to the intensive care unit of the Annunziata Hospital in Cosenza, where she died a few hours later as a result of the severity of the injuries sustained.
Firefighters, security forces, emergency medical teams, and personnel from the public company responsible for road management (ANAS) have gone to the site of the incident, who have diverted traffic to alternative routes while investigations continue to determine the exact causes of the head-on crash.