Overview
- Police say Saray Arias Fernandez was struck around 2 a.m. on Corso Umberto I while using a marked crosswalk.
- The 20-year-old was taken to Ospedale del Mare for emergency decompressive craniotomy and died shortly before 8 a.m.
- The driver, an 18-year-old in a Range Rover Evoque, stopped at the scene and underwent routine toxicology checks.
- His licence was withdrawn and the SUV was seized as investigators reconstruct the dynamics and review signals, speed and phone use.
- Witnesses described the vehicle as traveling at very high speed, and local reporting says the driver was reported for vehicular homicide.