Overview
- The van for Rai’s La Volta Buona, carrying correspondent Rosanna Cacio, a videographer and two authors, collided with another car inside a motorway tunnel near Genoa while heading to Sanremo.
- Cacio said the driver was going “a bit fast” despite passengers asking him to slow down before the impact.
- The car carrying members of the Pisa band Animeniacs overturned; three escaped through rear windows and a fourth, a woman, was freed by firefighters and handed to 118 medical personnel.
- Singer Daniel Fantini sustained a displaced vertebra fracture, and another band member is reported to require surgery in the coming days.
- Emergency responders arrived quickly, and Cacio described fearing fatalities upon seeing the overturned vehicle before learning all involved were alive.