Pietro Montemurro, the driver of the tram that derailed and crashed into a building on February 27 in Viale Vittorio Veneto in Milan, was not on the phone at the time of the accident. The man’s lawyers firmly support this. From the analyzes carried out by the defense on the mobile phone of the man, currently under investigation for train crash, murder and negligent injury, there were no calls or other telephone contacts in the moments before the crash. Instead, it would appear that a phone call to the colleague was made six minutes earlier.
The investigations
The prosecutor’s office and local police are carrying out investigations on the seized cell phones. The investigators are trying to place exactly, second by second, the telephone contact between the tram driver and his colleague, a surface operations inspector who has already been interviewed. The objective is to understand whether the phone call was made close to the missed stop, the failure to divert the tracks and the crash.
Syncope
From the first moment, the driver always claimed that he had lost control of the vehicle due to an illness, a vasovagal syncope due to a trauma to the big toe that he would have caused shortly before helping a person in a wheelchair to get on the tram. A pain so strong that it caused him to suddenly faint. Meanwhile, Montemurro was questioned in recent days, but made use of the right not to answer.
