Accident in Italy

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(Bild: Massimo Todaro)

An Austrian woman was killed in an accident on the Italian A4 highway on Wednesday. As the ANSA news agency reported in the evening, a wheel that had come loose from an articulated truck hit the car in which the woman was traveling.

Firefighters from the town of San Donà, which is around 50 kilometers from Venice, rescued the driver who was trapped in the vehicle. However, the emergency services were only able to determine that the woman had died.

The vehicle had been traveling near Mestre in the direction of Padua. Further details, such as the exact identity of the victim, were not yet known.