Consistent damage and great fear, from the encounter with a herd of wild boars, for a father who, with his two-year-old son sitting on the child seat attached to the rear seat of his off-road Range Rover, traveled the provincial road 16 between Centro di Tregnago and San Mauro di Saline. «It was about 19 pm on Tuesday, when coming from the Barco district I took the provincial road towards Laghi and I found the herd of ungulates on the road. There were about fifteen of them, between large and small specimens ", says the man," some of them were right on the roadway which they occupied entirely and it was impossible to avoid them: unfortunately there was a collision and also significant in its impact " .
Shows the nose of the SUV open on the right side, the fog light coming out of its seat and numerous tufts of fur still imprisoned in the components of the car. «There were moments of agitation and fear: the little one was visibly frightened by the impact and was crying and a lot of smoke was coming out of the engine. There was also complicating matters lack of lighting on that stretch of road and the lack of telephone coverage, so I couldn't even ask for help. The instinct was to go down to understand the extent of the damage and if we could continue. I did it by recovering from the asphalt front plate and the fog light, but I was afraid because a wounded and even more nasty wild boar could come out of the dark and I would have left my son alone at the mercy of a frightening situation ”, says the man.
Hence the decision to continue by car at walking pace towards home, in the hope that the medium would hold up, although the damage to the radiator was evident, "but the fear that the situation could get worse, having the baby on board, made me choose this option". Arrived at home in San Mauro di Saline he phoned the carabinieri and in the late evening a patrol from the Badia Calavena station arrived who checked the damage to the car, found the presence of wild hair still on the bodywork and was accompanied on the exact place of impact, where fragments of the bodywork were still left on the asphalt.
"I wonder why it is not decided once and for all the total eradication of these wild animals, capable only of causing damage to people and things", is the question of the young father, "I wonder why it is not possible to make a radical intervention for these animals that are useless, indeed they are harmful to crops and dangerous for people". "If the fight had been with my wife's little Panda or with any other small car, the damage could have been even more serious, not only material damage to the vehicle, but also those to people ", denounces (Arena).