The impact, around 4 o'clock in the night between Monday and Tuesday, was fatal to fallow deer who crossed the Viale dei Tigli while he was arriving an automedica of 118, directed to a campsite from which a request for help had arrived. The staff who were on board, fortunately, did not report serious consequences, although the front of the car was completely destroyed: the doctor was unharmed, while the nurse suffered a chest trauma from seat belts. Dead, however, the deer that suddenly materialized in the middle of the avenue, in the final stretch almost a Torre del Lago, in that very dark spot. The presence of fallow deer and wild boar (definitely prevalent) is a constant throughout the area of Natural Park of Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli.
Organization that has worked, in recent years, to contain the presence of fallow deer in the cultivated land of the Pisan area of the territory that falls within the scope of the Natural Park. In this regard, an agreement was reached with the farmers and they were trained by the park guards people who facilitate the relationship with the presence of animals for farmers themselves and related abatements that must have the authorization of the Authority. The presence of fallow deer and wild boar in the Macchia Lucca is often linked to the presence of large quantities of food available: that of bars and restaurants, but also that which the clientele of the same throws at wild boar and fallow deer. This is why the Park's repeated invitation is to "not feed wild animals". Coldiretti also spoke about what happened on Viale dei Tigli: "The road is one of the highest risk areas, where motorists are most likely to collide with wild boar and fallow deer.
Only a few hours before the accident Coldiretti had reported - through a mapping in the aftermath of the protest in Piazza Duomo in Florence against the out-of-control proliferation of wild boars - the most dangerous roads in the province of Lucca. By inserting viale dei Tigli - together with Lodovica, Pesciatina and via Romana - among these ». Andrea Elmi, president of Coldiretti Lucca, recalls that the trade association has requested the Tuscany Region "to press the State-Regions Conference for a necessary modification of the state rule aimed at simplifying and strengthening the control and containment interventions of the species". Coldiretti asks for «a commitment at the regional level to regulate the hunting activity. And that farmers are assisted by the police themselves, by voluntary hunting guards but can delegate the activities to qualified hunters registered in the appropriate regional register. Furthermore, the hunting calendar should be extended to include the months from September to January "(The nation).