5-year-old boy hit by a vehicle in Cedrate: he is in very serious condition

Context

TL;DR

• Shortly before 17, a 5-year-old boy was hit.
• The accident occurred on via Arconti, in Cedrate.
• The child is in life-threatening condition and was transferred by air ambulance.
• Four other people were assisted in Madonna in Campagna.

Key facts

• Place → via Arconti, Cedrate di Gallarate
• Time → just before 5 pm
• 5 year old → child victim
• → Life-threatening conditions
• Transfer → from the helicopter rescue to Pope John of Bergamo
• 80-year-old → female driver, who accused an ill
• Second incident → Madonna in the countryside
• People rescued → two children, a woman and a man

Just before 5 pm, a 5-year-old boy was hit on the central stretch of Via Arconti, in Cedrate di Gallarate, by a car driven by an elderly woman.

The conditions of the child

The child, in danger of life, was transported by helicopter to Pope John of Bergamo, a reference facility for pediatric patients.

The driver of the car was also taken to the hospital. The woman is 80 years old and has an illness. The source indicates her first as an elderly woman driving and then as an 80-year-old hospitalized driver. The transfer and hospitalization of the driver complete the health picture provided in the text: for the child, the danger to life is indicated, while for the woman, the illness followed by transport to the hospital is reported.

The place and time define the perimeter of the episode: via Arconti, in the central section, in Cedrate, just before 5 pm. The victim is a 5-year-old child; the driver involved is 80 years old. The story therefore links the place, time and sanitary conditions to this episode.

Next to this intervention, the text indicates another

Operational details

The rescue response

Medical resources and red code

A major rescue response was mobilized for the ongoing medical emergency: Areu sent two Red Cross ambulances, one from Busto Arsizio and one from Gallarate, as well as a medical car; an air ambulance also took off from Milan.

The operations were carried out under a red code, described by the source as the highest level of medical urgency. The deployment therefore included ground vehicles and the air ambulance assigned to the rescue operation in the area of via Arconti. The list of vehicles shows the scale of the response: two Red Cross ambulances, a medical car and the air ambulance.

Law enforcement and traffic

Law enforcement also took part in managing the medical response. The Carabinieri intervened on via Arconti because the local police were dealing with two other accidents. The source links the presence of the Carabinieri to the need to oversee the response while the local police were occupied with the other two incidents.

The response affected traffic. Traffic was brought to a standstill in the area, on via Arconti, while it was slowed on via 24 Maggio and viale Lombardia. These are the roads identified in the report to describe the local impact of the accident.

The operational picture is not limited to the medical response: it includes the intervention of the Carabinieri and traffic affected by the standstill in the area and slowdowns on the roads listed. The places mentioned are Busto Arsizio and Gallarate for the ambulances, and Milan for the air ambulance; via Arconti, via 24 Maggio and viale Lombardia are instead the roads affected by the consequences for traffic.

Key points

The other accident and the investigations

Another crash in Madonna in Campagna

Almost at the same time, the Local Police intervened in a collision between two cars at the entrance to the Mornera viaduct, on the Madonna in Campagna side, separate from the pedestrian collision on via Arconti.

Emergency responders assisted two children aged 2 and 8, a 31-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man; none of the four is in life-threatening danger. Compared with the pedestrian collision on via Arconti, this was a less serious accident.

The Local Police response in Madonna in Campagna took place at the same time that the Local Police was engaged in two other accidents. The carabinieri, in fact, intervened for the pedestrian collision on via Arconti.

The follow-up concerning via Arconti

The investigations into the main accident are being conducted by the carabinieri, who are working to reconstruct the dynamics of the collision and clarify its circumstances.

The carabinieri's work is therefore focused on reconstructing what happened and clarifying the circumstances, while the second response remains documented through the location, ages and conditions of the people who received assistance.

The second accident occurred at the entrance to the Mornera viaduct, on the Madonna in Campagna side; the pedestrian collision on via Arconti in Cedrate, on the other hand, is the one at the center of the investigations. The two locations are distinct, even though the responses took place almost at the same time.

The local follow-up therefore develops on two separate levels: on the one hand, the investigation into the pedestrian collision, and on the other, assistance to the four people involved in Madonna in Campagna. The source indicates that these people are not in life-threatening danger.

Source: varesenews.it