Overview

• Prosecutors have commissioned an autopsy on 82-year-old Egidio Ceriani to determine if insomnia or medications impaired his driving when he entered the A4 at Arluno tollbooth contra-flow
• Polizia Stradale investigators are reconstructing the crash dynamics at kilometer 103+400 between Novara Est and Marcallo Mesero where Ceriani’s Peugeot 207 collided head-on with a Peugeot 3008
• Concessionaire Satap’s new anti-wrong-way detection systems did not trigger at the Arluno entry, triggering a technical review of wrong-way alert coverage
• The lone survivor, architect Silvia Moramarco, remains in critical condition at Niguarda Hospital with chest trauma and multiple fractures
• Wrong-way fatalities in Italy have risen to nine so far in 2025, spurring calls to reassess elderly driver fitness requirements and summer highway safety measures