Overview
- Police said the bus driver died after a collision involving a truck, a tourist coach and three cars near Mele at about km 8 of the A26.
- Roughly 20 people were injured, several seriously, and were taken to multiple hospitals in Genoa and Savona.
- Autostrade per l’Italia temporarily closed the A26 between Ovada and the A10 toward Genoa and also shut the Masone entry ramp.
- Emergency medical teams, firefighters, Highway Police and Autostrade’s Tronco 1 personnel responded, and traffic inside the closed stretch was blocked with about 2 km of queues.
- A preliminary reconstruction reported by local media indicates the truck may have executed a risky maneuver and struck the bus, though the dynamics remain under investigation.