Manslaughter and multiple injuries: these are the crime hypotheses being investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office Benevento who entered the bus driver in the register of suspects.
The vehicle with 36 passengers on board ended up yesterday morning shortly after 3.30 am on a ditch on the A16 Naples-Canosa, between the Irpinia toll booths of Vallata and Lacedonia, after having avoided impact with five cars blocked on the roadway following a rear-end collision.
In the accident, a young Ivorian driver of one of the four cars carrying other young North Africans headed to markets in the province of Naples lost his life. Their four cars were found to be uninsured.
The registration of the bus driver, SG his initials, 63 years old and originally from Rome, in the register of suspects is a necessary act to allow investigators to carry out unrepeatable checks on the stretch of highway where the accident occurred (downhill and with many curves, the speed limit is 80 km/h, ed.) and on all the cars involved.
Yesterday, the driver, defended by the lawyer Guerino Gazzella, had been subjected to an alcohol test and a drug test, resulting negative. The “black box” of the bus was also acquired to verify the speed, stopping times and travel times of the bus that left the evening before at 23 pm from Lecce and headed to Rome where it was supposed to arrive at seven.
According to the latest reconstruction by the Highway Patrol, one of the five cars involved in the collision was occupied by a young Neapolitan couple from San Giovanni a Teduccio: both did not suffer any consequences.
His name was Malick Fall, born in Senegal 26 years ago and living in Forlì, the boy who died in the road accident that occurred yesterday, at kilometer 101+730 of the A16 in the territory of Vallesaccarda, in the province of Avellino.
The investigations, carried out by the Grottaminarda traffic police and coordinated by the Benevento prosecutor's office, also allowed the identification of the injured person who is hospitalized in serious conditions at the San Pio hospital in Benevento.
This is 35-year-old Alassane Loum, also Senegalese, living in Naples. The prognosis remains reserved.
Malik Fall died instantly while driving one of four cars carrying an unspecified number of young North Africans headed to sell their goods in the markets in the province of Naples.
Article published on 5 June 2023 - 19:55
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