Zanardi: stable night in intensive care, remains very serious. The intervention after the accident yesterday

2020-06-20T05:54:19.178Z

Stable conditions during the night, but still very serious, for Alex Zanardi, hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Siena hospital after yesterday's accident with the handbike near Pienza during the relay Objective tricolor with other Paralympic athletes. Assisting the champion are his wife Daniela, who was following the caravan, and his son Niccolò. The next medical report from the Sienese healthcare company is expected around 10 am. Yesterday at the Polyclinic Le Scotte Alex Zanardi underwent neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery. The accident occurred while Zanardi, along with thirty friends and Paralympic athletes from his Objective 3 team, was traveling on the provincial road 146 of the Val d'Orcia for a relay race dedicated to the restart of Italy after the coronavirus. At the end of a descent, in a curve, his handbike suddenly changed trajectory ending up against the trailer of a truck that was passing in the opposite direction. Immediately his condition was very serious and he was taken with the helicopter to the hospital.