Unfortunately, the massacre of ungulates on the ungulates continued this night as well streets of Trentino. There have been at least five accidents involving cars run over deer and roe deer. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries among the drivers. A massacre of animals which, according to the latest data, has seen only in the first 4 months of 2022 over 300 investments by wild animals occurred on the roads of Trentino. Above all deer and roe deer, but there was no lack of wild boars, wolves and other smaller mammals such as foxes, badgers, squirrels, hares and stone martens. In mid-May, a bear was also run over and abandoned and then wounded in the lower Val di Non, on the state road 43 between the localities of Cressino and the Sant'Angelo farm.
For some time now there have been several environmental associations and also a part of the politics that have been asking the Province to undertake some concrete actions to stem this phenomenon. Too few in the area, the associations explain, the wildlife corridors that would allow animals to cross the roads safely avoiding accidents according to a report by the Road Management Service of the Province of Trento (which dates back to 2009) Almost 95% of ungulate investments occur in 30% of the road network, therefore solutions could be concentrated in the most dangerous areas.
In the past, at the turn of the year 2000, attempts were also made to use technology and special "antifauna" reflectors were installed, in practice of the optical bollards which, activating with the car headlights, reflected the light so that wild animals were induced to stop and cross the road after the vehicles passed. Then there was the "Margine project", developed by a research group of the University of Trento, proposes sensors as a solution to accidents caused by the sudden crossing of animals. In practice, sensors made it possible to send light signals to motorists in the event of the presence of animals approaching the road. Since the experimentation, which took place in 2016-2017, we have no longer passed to the application (The Dolomites).