• An overpass collapses on the A14: two dead and three wounded
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August 23, 2019The Ancona Public Prosecutor's Office asked for 22 people to be indicted for the collapse of bridge 167 on the A14, which occurred in March 2017, after which the spouses Emidio Diomede Antonella Viviani died and 3 workers were injured. It is, according to Resto del Carlino, 18 people and 4 companies: Autostrade per l'Italia and Spea Engineering, both from the Atlantia group, customers of the works, Pavimental, a contracting company also headed by Atlantia, and Delabech, executor of the subcontract work. The preliminary hearing has been set for December 9th.

Who risks the process
For Aspi, two engineers and the person in charge of the procedure risk the process until 2014; for Spea in 5; for Pavimental the managing director Franco Tolentino and 4 others; for Delabech the managing director Riccardo Bernabò Silorata and others 4.

The charges
The charges are, in addition to negligent homicide, in various ways, the murder of the road, the culpable collapse and the violation of workplace safety regulations.

What happened
On March 9, 2017, in the early afternoon, on the bridge along the Marche section of the A14, on the outskirts of Ancona, a maneuver was being carried out to raise an overpass: suddenly, the oblique deck crashed onto the roadway at the moment in which the car arrived in which there were Emidio Diomede and Antonella Viviani, spouses of Spinetoli (Ascoli Piceno), both dead on the spot.

The investigation
Two strands of the investigation coordinated by the prosecutor Bilotta. On the one hand, the aim is to establish the causes of the collapse, which according to technical expertise would have been triggered by the collapse of a pillar leaning against the old base of the bridge and which supported a jack that raised the overpass. On the other hand we want to verify if, for that type of complex operation, all the safety standards had been applied and respected, and the opportunity to close that section of the highway to the vehicles while the works were being carried out was evaluated.