Firefighters intervened to secure an overpass in Mestre during the night between Saturday and Sunday after passers-by reported seeing falling plaster.
The structure in question is the ‘Della Giustizia’ railway overpass, one of the city’s oldest infrastructure works dating to the earth 20th century and crossing the Trieste-Treviso railway line. It is located not far from the overpass that saw last Tuesday’s bus crash in which 21 mostly young and foreign people died.
The condition of local infrastructure has come under the spotlight since the accident amid suggestions that the state of the guardrail may have been to blame.
Meanwhile, on Saturday a 28-year-old German named only as Nico V. was the first person injured in the crash to be discharged from hospital.
“I am getting better, I feel I had a guardian angel that saved my life. I have a head wound, many blows, my right arm hurts.
But I’m here…,” he told Corriere.
He lost his 17-month-old daughter in the crash, while his wife, 27, is in intensive care.
Source: Ansa News Agency