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May 08, 2018A wounded girl - who was from the first rumors in the store opposite - and a bus completely destroyed. Moments of fear this morning in Rome, when in Via del Tritone, in the historic center, a half of the Atac, caught fire. The flames wrapped it in a few moments. A thick black smoke developed in the surrounding area. From the first rumors it would have been a short circuit to trigger the explosion and then the flames. It is not the first case in the Capital. On the spot the Fire Brigade, the Carabinieri, the Police, the Interior Minister, Marco Minniti and the councilor for the mobility of the municipality Linda Meleo.



The prosecutor has opened an investigation. The hypothesis of crime, at present, is that of 'culpable crime of damage', in terms of public safety, governed by Article 449 of the Criminal Code. The deputy prosecutor Nunzia D'Elia is waiting for a first report from the fire brigade to reconstruct what happened. It is considered whether to expand the investigation to other Atac burning.

The road was closed as a precaution and the new "Rinascente" headquarters was evacuated. The fire in the meantime has been tamed, leaving the facade of the building visibly blackened in front of which the vehicle caught fire. The young woman was injured in the arm. We talk about burn and it is in yellow code.

According to the story of a witness, the tragedy was avoided by the driver's readiness: "The passengers were taken off due to the strong smell of smoke just before an explosion from which the flames came".



The Atac - it makes known in a note - that an investigation was opened to ascertain the causes of the fire. The car was the year 2003, the company announced, which underlines how in the last few months "preventive actions to minimize the fire risks for the fleet that unfortunately has a very advanced average age have been intensified". in the field have allowed to reduce fire cases on cars by about 25% in the first four-month period 2018 compared to the same period in 2017, "explains Atac.

Previous. From the beginning of 2018 there would be eight cars on fire
This would be the eighth bus that has been on fire since the beginning of the year. The last episode refers to Via del Portonaccio in April. March 6, another half on fire in Via Prenestina. A few days before, in broad daylight, between Macchia Palocco and Acilia. Line 03 passengers had just had time to get out before the car caught fire. In the X Municipio a similar episode when the flames destroyed an Atac bus in Ostia.

Before Ostia it was the turn of Prati, when a car of the 030 line partially caught fire while it was in transit on Via Marcantonio Colonna. Another bus was destroyed on 26 January on Viale Palmiro Togliatti, in the Centocelle area. First it was the turn of the first flambus of the year, with another damaged Atac vehicle while it was in the square of Monte Savello, in the Ghetto area on the Tiber Island. "A dozen or so means destroyed by flames in 2017.



The unions: old means, one case a month
"The conditions in which the buses operate are extreme conditions, which are known to all and repeatedly denounced by us as well. Maintenance is carried out with the available resources, but the preventive agreement has blocked everything. This city needs new means, because those that are there are very old, the most 'ancient' fleet in Europe, and from here derive these problems.The service that lends itself to the Romans is no longer up to the city.The exasperated citizens eventually take it out on the "drivers. Thus the secretary of the Filt Cgil Rome and Lazio Eugenio Stanziale commenting on the fire that broke out on board a bus in Via del Tritone in the center of Rome.

"It 's yet another bus that catches fire in the city, we estimate that now there is a case of this kind in the month - echoes Michele Frullo, of the Usb -. This is due to the age of the means of Atac, which creates inconvenience to users and workers must intervene as soon as possible with the purchase of new vehicles, because with the arrival of summer this situation can only get worse, also because of the stop to the maintenance of the vehicles on the road, previously assured by the Corpa workers who have been fired ".