Cars in the wrong direction on the Milan / Genoa motorway: two dead and three injured

- a woman and a man - and three injured, including a child, are the toll of

the road accident that took place along the A7 Milan-Genoa motorway, in the direction of the Ligurian capital between the

, in the province of Pavia.

On the spot the 118 rescuers, who intervened at 14.55, who ascertained the death of the two victims, whose details are not yet disclosed, and transported the three injured to hospital: a 34-year-old woman, a 35-year-old man and a child of 4. One of the injured was transported by helicopter rescue to San Raffaele in

the other two to San Matteo in Pavia. 

Three cars involved.

The cause of the accident was a car in

that would have traveled a stretch of a few kilometers in the wrong direction: from the Casei Gerola tollbooth to the crash site, in the territory of the municipality of

.

The crash in the early afternoon.

The victims are the drivers of the car in the wrong direction (a man living in the Milanese area), and the car that could not avoid it, a woman who was headed to Genoa.

The three injured - father, son and the man's cousin - were traveling in a third car that failed to avoid the wreckage on the road towards the Ligurian capital.

The man, the most serious, was transported by helicopter to the

of Milan in red code;

the woman and the child, both green codes, were taken by ambulance to

.

In shock, but unharmed, the passengers of two other cars who managed to stop in time.  

“I saw a car speeding in the wrong direction on the freeway. It was traveling at high speed

lane that is normally used for overtaking. I had to look twice in the rearview mirror to convince myself that it was all true what I had seen. After a few minutes the inevitable happened. My legs are still shaking ", says a witness on social media.

"I could have been among the victims - he adds -. It was only a matter of time".   

In order to allow the

operations , the motorway in the section between Gropello Cairoli and Casei Gerola was closed for a long time, causing several kilometers of queue and severe inconvenience to traffic on this last Sunday in June.

The health workers of 118, could not help but ascertain the death of the two victims, who died instantly in the clash.

The traffic police, also through the aid of security

, will have to establish why the car has entered the road in the wrong direction.

An autopsy is likely to be ordered on the corpse of the suv driver.

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accident against hand on the A 7