Elderly man rescued from wreckage on Siracusa-Catania highway, other driver attempts escape

Last Updated: May 23, 2024

Explanation of the article:
An accident occurred on the Syracuse-Catania highway involving a Volkswagen Golf and a van. The impact occurred between the Melilli and Sortino interchanges, heading towards Catania, and was very violent, reducing the car to a tangle of wreckage. The fire department arrived on the scene and extracted an elderly man from the Golf’s cockpit. He was taken to the hospital due to several injuries and was in a state of shock. The driver of the heavy vehicle fled after the crash but was soon found by the highway police a short distance from the scene. The man claimed to have fled out of panic and that the heavy vehicle he was driving was borrowed from an acquaintance. The accident caused long traffic delays on the highway towards the city of Catania, but the circulation returned to normal only after the vehicles were removed from the road.