Overview
- The nearly three-month-old was thrown from a Fiat 500X on the A5 between the Settimo and Volpiano exits around 8 p.m. on December 6 and died at the scene.
- The Ivrea prosecutor’s office has filed for vehicular homicide and hit-and-run, citing at least two vehicles whose drivers departed without rendering aid.
- Police have identified witnesses and are conducting road measurements and forensic inspections to determine why the infant carrier detached and was expelled.
- Investigators have not reached conclusions on whether the crash was autonomous or whether the child was also struck by a passing vehicle.
- Officers are seeking a van and a car flagged by witness accounts and camera reviews, while the mother, treated at Turin’s Giovanni Bosco hospital, has been discharged and will be questioned.