The steering broke on the bus that
plunged from an overpass in Venice's Mestre district in October,
killing 22 people, Venice Chief Prosecutor Bruno Cherchi said
Friday at the end of the expert-analysis phase of the
investigation.
The prosecutor's report said that the age and lack of
maintenance of the guardrails on the overpass meant that they
were unable to stand the impact when the bus hit them.
"A causal link between the breakage of the steering wheel and
the state of the barriers is (yet) to be established," Cherchi
said.
Three city of Venice officials and the managing director of La
Linea, the company that operated the bus, are under
investigation in relation to the disaster.
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