Dead Women Carbonated

This is not Shaney, but babelfish output converting an Italian newspaper article into English.

PADOVA - Four persons dead women carbonated, beyond the fifty wounded, approximately 250 machines with sheets rolled up. E' the tragic budget of a series of happened around to the 9.30 on the freeway "A13" Padova-Bologna and provoked incidents to chain from a driven in fog that has reduced the visibility to 60 meters.

The freeway, from the momemto of the incident, has been sluice inntrambe the tracks. On the place numerous ambulances are taken part, agent and means National Fire Department of the Polstrada. In the zone it is met also personal of the civil Protection in order lend aids, food and warm drinks to the blocked motorists on the freeway. In the agent and meantime National Fire Department of the Polstrada they are controlling half for means in order to accertarsi of the physical conditions of the travellers. The wounded have been capacities in several the hospitals of the zone, in particular to Rovigo and Monselice.

The first series of tamponamenti is begun on the track south, from Padova towards Bologna, and little after the incidents they are begun also in that north. In little time the entire feature of "A13" between the cases of Boara Pisani and Monselice has been transformed in a heap of carcasss of automobiles, crushed also from truck, with some motors vehicle that have taken fire.

Between the vehicles been involved there is also a small van that transported an amount not consisting of destined radioactive cesium to the use hospital worker. The means have been isolated from the National Fire Departments that has assessed with the contatore geiger that not it has been some spillage of the substance. But an ulterior control will be carried out from one specialist that is catching up the place of the incident from Bologna. One still does not preview when it will be possible to reopen the freeway: the motorists directed to Bologna come let out to the casello give Terme Euganee, while those that come in contrary sense are forced to exit to the casello of Rovigo.

Stamane the Polstrada already had been engaged, always to cause of the fog, with some incidents on the state "Romea": to the 7.30, to Lughetto (Venice), the state one had been sluice for three various tamponamenti that had been involved 11 vehicles, causing one long tail of automobiles 8 kilometers. The visibility to that hour was of 50 meters. A same hour after on state an other tamponamento had seen been involved other means. A prologo of how much would have happened to the 9.30 on "A13".

(12 February 1998)