The Acquaviva station in Puglia
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October 24, 2021 The 16-year-old from Cassano delle Murge who was overwhelmed and killed last night by a train passing through the Acquaviva delle Fonti station was sitting on a low wall close to the platform that runs along the tracks, a few tens of centimeters from the rails. in the Bari area. The reconstruction of the dynamics of the facts by the railway police and carabinieri has already made it clear that it would have been a tragic accident. Other young people who were on site at the time of the tragedy and friends of the poor woman were listened to until late by the investigators, confirming the hypothesis of the tragic fatality.
The teenager would not have noticed the convoy arriving at the speed of 100 kilometers per hour, perhaps distracted because she was wearing headphones, and she would have been sucked into the train, crashing violently into a carriage. This morning the coroner will carry out the external cadaveric examination in the Policlinico di Bari and the orientation of the prosecutor on duty at the Bari Court is not to proceed with the autopsy, because the dynamics are clear and at the moment no responsibility is assumed.
The Acquaviva delle Fonti station, in the Bari area, has no staff or supervision and had long since become a dangerous meeting place for young people in the evening. Just yesterday, "a couple of hours before the terrible accident took place - says the mayor of Acquaviva, Davide Carlucci, I personally accompanied the local police officers on a check-up at the station during which, after trying to talk to some of the guys who frequent that place to understand the reasons, we invited them to spend their time in other safer places in the city. It is certainly not the first time that we find ourselves dealing with the safety problems that arise along the railway line Now, however, the irreparable has happened.Our community - says Carlucci who announces the proclamation of city mourning - gathers around the victim's family and friends ".