The victims are a German couple, aged 61 and 68, from Augsburg, who were driving towards Rome. The vehicle of the two Augsburg residents collided at high speed with another car that had stopped at the toll booth and whose driver, a 21-year-old Italian, was killed. The accident occurred at the toll booth on the A12 motorway near Rosignano Marittimo (Livorno). The three people all died on impact. The bodies were recovered by the fire brigade and taken to the Rosignano morgue, rescue units reported.
Discomfort as a trigger?
The pile-up that followed the first collision involved three other vehicles, including a car with Austrian registration plates. The toll booth was completely destroyed. The six people who were slightly injured included two small children aged three and six and their 35-year-old mother, who were taken to a hospital in Livorno, and the toll booth operator, a 44-year-old man from the Tuscan town of Cecina.
The German driver may have been unwell and the accident was triggered. The car, which collided at high speed with the group of vehicles waiting at the toll barrier, triggered a domino effect that eventually destroyed part of the toll booth.
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