“Road homicide”. The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating the death of starred chef Alessandro Narducci and his friend and colleague Giulia Puleio, has entered in its register the name of Fabio F., the thirty-year-old who was driving the Mercedes that caused their deaths last night in a head-on collision with the scooter of the two young people, aged 29 and 25. A flight of over 20 meters over the central Lungotevere della Vittoria. And while messages of condolence are arriving from all over Italy – the latest from Carrara, where the chef's father is director of the Academy of Fine Arts – the Campidoglio wants to purchase ten new mobile speed cameras, in addition to the ten already existing, to be placed on the streets with the highest accident rates, such as Colombo, Casilina and Prenestina. A project that started before the recent news events, explained the president of the Transport Commission Enrico Stefa'no (M5s), and that foresees an investment of 250 thousand euros that will have to be found in budget adjustment to be able to put the devices on the road as early as autumn. If statistically the Lungoteveri count a lower number of accidents than the Consular ones, the crash the other night risks raising the average in a tragic way. It is now up to the investigators led by PM Pietro Pollidori to understand the circumstances surrounding the death of the two young chefs. The autopsy will be performed on Monday. The man in the Mercedes is now injured at the Policlinico Gemelli: his car crashed into some parked cars, while the scooter on which the two boys were riding was found several meters away. A distraction or a microsleep are hypotheses that cannot be excluded. A witness, as reported by a newspaper, heard him say: “I was on my cell phone, I didn't notice anything”. But investigations will clarify. The cameras in the area are also being examined. In any case, the driver was subjected to an alcohol test and a drug test, the results of which are awaited. Meanwhile, last night too, a scooter rider died on the streets of Rome, this time in Ostia, on Via del Lido di Castelporziano. He is a 36-year-old man, without a helmet or insurance. Apparently he was speeding on a road where the speed limit is 30 miles per hour. He then allegedly hit a guardrail, ending up under a car coming in the opposite direction. According to the initial findings of the Municipal Police, it would have been impossible for the driver to avoid the impact. Since the road is in poor condition, our thoughts went to Noemi Carrozza, the swimming champion who died on Via Cristoforo Colombo in a stretch where the roots of the pine trees were raising bumps in the road surface. But according to the police, there are no roots at the point on Via del Lido di Castelporziano where the scooter rider ended up against the guardrail. Codacons, however, has pointed the finger at the state of the city's roads, calling for a ban on motorcycles and scooters on the most dangerous streets and calling for a sit-in protest next Wednesday.
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