The victims of the accident that occurred this evening in the Brindisi area on the ss 16 San Pietro Vernotico-Brindisi, at the height of the small hamlet of Tuturano, were 32 and 18 years old.
Four injured in the hospital, two of them in very serious conditions in their early 20s.
On the other hand, Luigi Raffaele Marangio, a resident of San Pietro Vernotico, lost his life: he will turn 19 in February and a life interrupted forever a few kilometers from home.
He was pursuing a dream of a different life thousands of kilometers away from his loved ones, the other victim of the clash Augustine Kwadwo Kona, 32 years old, originally from Ghana, in Italy for a few years and residing in Brindisi.
The two victims were driving the two vehicles.
A total of five people were traveling in the car driven by Marangio, including the two dying 20-year-olds now hospitalized at the "Perrino" in Brindisi;
three instead inside the car driven by the 32-year-old.
Local police officers have been working on the spot for two hours now to acquire the findings of the head-on collision between the cars.
There would also be a third car involved but the driver was not seriously injured.
The cars instead of Marangio and Kona were destroyed, with the forces of order having to close the section of the provincial state road 16 for all the checks and the recovery of the vehicles.
Several 118 ambulances and firefighters were on the spot, who extracted the people from the metal sheets and facilitated relief for the injured.
The 32-year-old and the 18-year-old, on the other hand,
The prosecutor on duty Pierpaolo Montinaro has ordered the seizure of the three vehicles.
What happened this evening is only the latest in a dramatic series of accidents in less than a week in Puglia.
Three very young people aged 19, 21 and 25 who were traveling aboard a Mini Cooper lost their lives last Sunday in the province of Bari.
The car, driven by a slightly injured 29-year-old, after impacting against a tourist bus, stopped its run against a wall, after also hitting the traffic island.
21-year-old Michele Traetta died instantly;
the two friends Elisa Buonsante and Sara Grimaldi died a few hours after arriving at the hospital.
For that accident there are two suspects from the Bari prosecutor for multiple road homicide.
