One child lost his life and five others were injured in the tragic accident that occurred this afternoon at the Primo Maggio school, which includes a kindergarten and a nursery and is located in the immediate outskirts of L’Aquila. A group of small pupils between 3 and 5 years oldwho were playing in the kindergarten garden, was run over by a car that broke through the fence external.
The little boy who lost his life was four years old: his condition immediately appeared dramatic and, even if the doctors tried desperately to revive him, the child did not make it and died during the transport to the hospital in L’Aquila. . Among the wounded, a very serious girl was transferred to the Gemelli hospital From Rome. Other children run over by the car would not be in danger of life.
According to the first reconstructions, the car that overwhelmed the little ones is a gray Volkswagen Passat, and it was parked on a downhill street when – for reasons not yet ascertained – it set off.
From the first information it seems that the car was from a mother who had gone to pick up her child from kindergarten, leaving the other son, for a few minutes, in the car, alone. The boy was not injured, but he is in shock. One hypothesis is that the minor released the handbrake while he was playing while waiting for his mother.
«With some children we tried to pretend it was a gameor at least to minimize “, refers to Republic the teacher, «explaining that today the parents came to pick them up early. But how difficult it is ».
The mayor of L’Aquila Pierluigi Biondi proclaimed the city mourning.
Source: Vanity Fair
