A worker who was working on a truck on a construction site along the Autosole was killed after his vehicle was hit by a truck.
The accident at work occurred around 3 pm at the junction between the A1 and the A15 near Parma.
The worker, an employee of a company that works for Autostrade per l'Italia, was reporting a construction site along the emergency lane when a truck headed for Milan swerved while in the first lane and hit the service van in full force, killing on the blow the worker.
The northbound traffic has been reopened.
Dies overwhelmed by combine harvester in Padua - A 71-year-old man died this afternoon while trying to repair a fault in his combine harvester. The accident occurred in Rovolon (Padua), the man is a farmer, resident in the area. The carabinieri of the company of Abano Terme, the Spisal and the 118 intervened on the spot, for the 71-year-old there was nothing to do. The firefighters intervened to move the machinery that in all likelihood will end up under seizure. From the first checks it seems that the man was working on his fields, the threshing bar would have come off and he tried to fix it, but the tool fell on him, leaving him no way out.