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An Italian teenage girl died after a car crash when her long blonde hair got caught in the steering wheel.
Caterina Alzetta (19) was with her brother Pietro (21) driving through the Italian town of Montereale Valcellina, when she wound down her window.
But the strong winds caused Caterina’s hair to ‘fly about’ inside the car and get tangled in the steering wheel, according to Pietro, who survived the crash and had to be cut free from the wreckage.
When she tried to pull it free, the car veered into oncoming traffic and hit a car.
The brother and sister were the children of Michelle Alzetta who is head of the local ambulance rescue emergency service in the northern Italian town of Montereale Valcellina.
