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Dangers on the Autostrade
The Italian Motorways are pretty choc-a -bloc with people coming and going
on their holidays at the moment. This is an annual event centred on the middle of August, Ferragusto. It is most unpleasant to travel any distance by car in Italy during this period. To this has been added a new hazard. It seems that there is a revival of that other traditional Italian spectator sport, throwing rocks onto the motorway from an overpass. It seems somebody threw a large rock over the side of a bridge, causing an accident which killed the driver of the car which it hit and seriously injured his two passengers. It happened on the A1, Autostrada del Sole, near Cassino South of Rome. This was a phenomenon which used to happen regularly a few years ago but everybody thought it had been brought to an end when they installed fences on all the motorway bridges and painted the number of the bridge on the side of the road before and after each bridge so people could call up the Carabinieri on their mobiles if they saw something suspicious as they drove along. It seems it might be starting again. Bon Voyage. http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/C...13/sasso.shtml |
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:00:32 +0100, "Zhu De"
wrote: The Italian Motorways are pretty choc-a -bloc with people coming and going on their holidays at the moment. This is an annual event centred on the middle of August, Ferragusto. It is most unpleasant to travel any distance by car in Italy during this period. If you avoid the autostrada and take some of the minor scenic routes, you will find almost no traffic at all in most parts of Italy. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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"Zhu De" wrote in message ... To this has been added a new hazard. It seems that there is a revival of that other traditional Italian spectator sport, throwing rocks onto the motorway from an overpass. It seems somebody threw a large rock over the side of a bridge, causing an accident which killed the driver of the car which it hit and seriously injured his two passengers. It happened on the A1, Autostrada del Sole, near Cassino South of Rome. This was a phenomenon which used to happen regularly a few years ago but everybody thought it had been brought to an end when they installed fences on all the motorway bridges and painted the number of the bridge on the side of the road before and after each bridge so people could call up the Carabinieri on their mobiles if they saw something suspicious as they drove along. It seems it might be starting again. Bon Voyage. Why go to Italy? You can have the same experience on the A1 going round Newcastle. Envo |
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