Alex Zanardi, the investigators’ hypothesis: a hole on the asphalt as a possible cause of the accident

A pit on the asphalt it may have caused ad to lose Alex Zanardi checking his handbike. Or, alternatively, a dip in the road surface due to traffic wear or weather events. They are all hypotheses that the investigators are considering as a possible cause of the accident that the Paralympic champion was victim of on June 19, as reported in today’s edition of the Morning. The confirmation (or not) of the investigative hypothesis will come from the findings of the police on the road surface conditions of the provincial 146: from what we learn, the investigative material is already in the investigation files of the power of attorney of Siena.

The intent of the investigators, underlines the Morning, is not to exclude that the asphalt had needed maintenance or not, but whether Zanardi took with the wheels of thehandbike a hole or a crack on the road, which would have made him lose control of the vehicle enough to collide with the truck in the opposite lane. To try to ascertain which one too speed Zanardi went at the time of the accident, the cycle computer mounted on the bike was seized in recent days Marcello Bartolozzi, 66 years old, passionate about cycling and witness of the accident, which followed the Bolognese champion: Bartolozzi, who was the first to help Zanardi, was in fact heard for a long time by the magistrates last Monday. The handball of the Paralympic champion is also being examined to ascertain any failures or failures.

The clinical conditions of theex Formula 1 driver, hospitalized in a reserved prognosis in the intensive care unit of the university hospital Santa Maria alle Scotte in Siena for more than a week, are still stable. From what has been learned, the doctors who treat him seem determined to start tomorrow awaken him from coma pharmacological to evaluate their neurological conditions.