The car nosedived 45 metres. It was four hours before firefighters found us
In summer 2018, life was so good. My fiance, Eugeniu, and I had bought a house near Naples. We decided to go on holiday to Provence, where he had proposed six years earlier, and try for a baby.
tunnel and came out on to the Morandi bridge. I had never been on it before, but I now know the motorway bridge opened in 1967 and was more than 1,000 metres long. The visibility was bad and we could hardly see a metre in front of us. Our car ended up landing on a road below the bridge; we were crushed inside the wreckage under colossal slabs of concrete. We never lost consciousness, but I was in shock. I hadn’t processed what was happening and was still thinking about my holiday. I had no idea the bridge had collapsed – I thought it might have been an earthquake.
Rescue workers eventually found us while saving a man whose van was dangling from another section of the bridge above us. We’d been under the rubble for four hours by the time we were pulled out, and the firefighter covered my face with his jacket so I couldn’t see the devastation. It was only afterwards, when I saw it on television, that I realised the scale of the tragedy – 43 people had died. The back of our car was squashed by falling concrete.
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