The physicist Cervellati dies when hit by a scooter in Rome

The 93-year-old physicist Roberto Cervellati, one of the first protagonists of research in Antarctica, has died at the Gemelli hospital in Rome. Last Friday the elderly man was hit near his home by an electric scooter; the driver then fled without providing assistance. Local police investigations to trace his identity. The cameras in the area are being examined. And it was a weekend with several victims of road accidents.

In Treni, a twenty-one year old was hit and killed by a van involved in a collision while walking home. The young man had worked at a fast food restaurant on Saturday evening and then went to a friend's house. An evening like many others after which he was walking back to his home when he was hit by a van which was also involved in a collision with a car at an intersection. There was nothing that could be done for the young man while the drivers of the two vehicles were hospitalized with non-serious injuries.

Blood on the streets also in Campania. A 26-year-old young man from Airola (Benevento), who was driving his car, died in the Asi area of ​​Paolisi after the Fiat Punto he was driving overturned and ended up off the road for reasons under investigation.

In Emilia-Romagna, a 21-year-old was hospitalized in serious condition after a road accident on the border between the municipalities of Mercato Saraceno and Sogliano sul Rubicone (Forlì-Cesena): around 5.15 in the morning the firefighters intervened in via Montepetra, where the car driven by the young man had left the road and fallen for about 30 metres, until it reached the bed of the Savio river.

One person died and two others were injured in the collision between two cars which occurred this morning on the state road between Lecce and Campi Salentina. Anas teams, 118, firefighters, Salento civil protection, local police and state police intervened on site to carry out rescue operations, investigate the dynamics and allow normal traffic to be restored. The road was temporarily closed to traffic in both directions. The deceased is a 78-year-old. The two injured people are 44 and 49 years old.