Driver injured after car leaves road and hits olive tree near Pedalino
Three Ragusa-based outlets give the same sequence of events, but differ on how the incident is dated, and the cause remains under investigation.
A man was injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Strada Provinciale 68, the road linking Vittoria and Pedalino, during the night, according to separate accounts published by the Corriere di Ragusa, La Sicilia — Ragusa and the Giornale Ibleo. The three Ragusa-based outlets describe the same sequence: an Alfa Romeo 159 left the carriageway, tore away a metal gate and part of the fence of a private property and struck an olive tree.
All three accounts place the crash at about 00.45 in contrada Salmè, at roughly kilometre 2,700. La Sicilia — Ragusa and the Giornale Ibleo add that the site is near the cantina Calì. The driver of the car was injured, and the impact caused extensive damage both to the vehicle and to the structures it hit. No other casualties are reported in the available accounts.
The cause is still under investigation, the accounts state, and none of them attributes the loss of control to any specific factor. The Corriere di Ragusa report refers to emergency medical personnel intervening promptly, but the supplied text is cut off mid-sentence at that point and the full passage could not be verified from the material available.
The accounts differ slightly on dating. La Sicilia — Ragusa and the Giornale Ibleo place the incident in the night between Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October 2026. The Corriere di Ragusa refers only to the night between Saturday and Sunday, without specifying dates. None of the accounts reviewed states whether the investigation has since produced further findings, and no further verified detail on the driver's condition is given.