TRIESTE – Six heavy goods vehicles were involved and two drivers were injured in a crash on the A4 motorway between Duino and Monfalcone Est in the direction of Venice. The motorway was closed to traffic for almost four hours, reopening shortly before 16:00.
The accident, involving a lost load and spilled inert material, occurred just before noon at kilometre 518 and required the temporary closure of the stretch between Sistiana and Monfalcone Est, as well as the Duino and Sistiana entrances in the same direction. Following the impact, four of the articulated trucks were damaged, while the other two were able to continue on their own. The four severely damaged vehicles had to be removed, and the carriageway cleaned of the inert material lost from one of the loads. Traffic police, staff from Autostrade Alto Adriatico and firefighters from the Opicina station attended the scene—supported by the Monfalcone station, a rescue vehicle and the duty officer from the Trieste headquarters.
The vehicles and the area were then secured. To avoid tailbacks spilling into urban centres, the motorway operator implemented a contraflow arrangement for heavy vehicles only, while light vehicles were directed to exit at Sistiana and re-enter at Monfalcone. In coordination with the traffic police, a process was also activated for around an hour and a half at the Fernetti Italy–Slovenia border crossing to restrict articulated trucks with loads over 7.5 tonnes coming from Slovenia.
By the time firefighters arrived, the drivers of all six trucks had already managed to get out of their cabs on their own. Two of them were treated by medical staff and later taken to hospital for checks.
Earlier in the morning, another heavy vehicle was involved in a separate accident on the Trieste ring road towards Cattinara, near Bagnoli della Rosandra. According to initial reconstructions, shortly after 09:00 a car stopped in a lay-by was rear-ended by a lorry and, due to the impact, ended up in the middle of the carriageway. The driver, who was injured but not seriously, was extricated from the wreckage by firefighters attending the scene together with police and medical staff, and taken to the emergency department as a “yellow code” case. The crash caused queues and slow traffic for at least two kilometres.
