A school bus, with 2 adults on board and no children, which was passing on the Aurelia in La Spezia ended up off the road in the embankment.
According to what has been learned, the two men on board, the driver and a companion, are allegedly injured not seriously.
On the spot there are municipal police, Vvf, state police and carabinieri.
The road will remain closed due to the complex recovery operations of the vehicle.
Off-road school bus in La Spezia, there were no children on board
The accident occurred in the hills of La Spezia shortly before 9 am along a junction that leads to the Variante Aurelia above Piazzale Ferro.
The two occupants were extracted from the vehicle, stabilized and taken to the emergency room of the Sant'Andrea hospital in red code.
The van has settled on its side along a wooded slope, from where the Fire Brigade is looking for recovery.
Serious traffic inconveniences along the route that connects the east and west of the city.
It would have been an illness of the driver to cause the school bus to go off the road, which ended up in an escarpment of about twenty meters in the hills of La Spezia this morning.
According to the reconstruction of the police, the employee of Atc Es Exercise, a man in his fifties, suddenly collapsed behind the wheel at a downhill stretch without the escort, who was with him at that moment, being able to intervene. to try to slow down the race.
Shortly before, the vehicle had left a group of pupils at a public institution and was headed for the depot.
The police tend to rule out the hypothesis of mechanical failure, given that the school bus was brand new, delivered to the public transport company a few weeks ago.
Both occupants were treated in the emergency room of the Sant'Andrea hospital in La Spezia without reporting serious consequences.
The school bus was removed by the Fire Brigade and circulation along the Variante Aurelia junction returned to normal in mid-morning.