Overview
- Investigators registered the 23-year-old Mercedes SUV driver and the 32-year-old Opel Corsa driver as suspects for homicide by road accident under the inquiry led by prosecutor Giancarla Serafini.
- Preliminary screens showed the 23-year-old positive for alcohol and drugs and the 32-year-old positive for drugs, with definitive lab analyses still awaited.
- The SUV was traveling at very high speed, reported at about 150 km/h and well above the local limit, as inquiries continue to determine right-of-way and any signal violations.
- An autopsy has been ordered for 19-year-old Pietro Silva Orrego, who died in the crash, and a 30-year-old rear-seat passenger remains hospitalized in serious condition but is said to be out of danger.
- Police obtained traffic-light and security-camera footage, seized phones, and used social-media video to clear an initially suspected 20-year-old non-driver, and they may request a kinematic reconstruction and verify the SUV driver’s eligibility to operate a high-power vehicle.