• Zanardi: stable night in intensive care, remains very serious. The intervention after the accident yesterday
  • Serious handbike accident for Alex Zanardi

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June 20, 2020 "Regarding the clinical conditions of the athlete Alex Zanardi, hospitalized from 18 June 19 in very serious conditions at the Santa Maria alle Scotte polyclinic following a road accident occurred in the province of Siena, the Aou Senese Health Directorate informs that the patient, who underwent a delicate neurosurgical intervention on the evening of June 19, and subsequently transferred to intensive care, has stable hemodynamic and metabolic parameters. He is intubated and supported by artificial ventilation while the neurological picture remains serious ". So the medical bulletin of the Le Scotte hospital in Siena released this morning on the conditions of Alex Zanardi. The driver of the truck against which yesterday in Pienza (Siena) met the handbike Alex Zanardi, now hospitalized in a prognosis reserved for the Siena hospital,

was entered in the register of suspects for serious injuries. The news, spread by some media, was confirmed by the prosecutor of the Tuscan city. "It's a due act," Chief Prosecutor Salvatore Vitello said today, referring to the investigations that are underway on the dynamics of the accident.   

To reconstruct what happened along the state road from Pineza to Montalcino, where there was a clash at a curve, the carabinieri, in addition to seizing the vehicles involved, acquired an amateur video that could prove useful.

Checks also on the organization of the event in which Zanardi was participating, a stage of the relay Obiettivo tricolore, in particular on permits relating to security.