Steering broke in Mestre disaster bus - prosecutor

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 21 - 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. (ANSA).