Overview
- The Ivrea prosecutor registered the van driver as a suspect for vehicular manslaughter and failure to render aid, and investigators seized the vehicle for forensic checks.
- The driver denies involvement, telling authorities he thought he had struck a minor obstacle and reportedly told his employer he believed it was an animal.
- A witness couple said the van stopped on the hard shoulder, the driver looked toward the scene, then drove away without calling for help.
- Investigators’ working hypothesis is that the mother’s 500X was rear‑ended, the infant’s carrier was ejected, and a third vehicle—still unidentified—then ran over the child.
- An autopsy is pending to determine the exact cause of death, while police analyze toll and camera records and examine why the child restraint and carrier were not secured; the mother has been discharged from hospital.