Runaway truck driver who killed two boys arrested

The alleged driver of the truck that fled the scene last night in the Reggio Emilia area after losing its load of scaffolding, which then struck three cars, causing two deaths, one serious injury, and four other minor injuries, has been located and arrested by the Carabinieri in Guastalla. The 39-year-old man, from Reggio Emilia, refused to submit to a breathalyzer test.

He was driving with a suspended license: it had been revoked in August for drunk driving. He is accused of road homicide, grievous bodily harm and fleeing an accident in the event of homicide and injuries, now at the disposal of the Prosecutor's Office headed by Gaetano Paci. The man, who lives in Montecchio Emilia, was also charged with drunk driving, having refused to submit to tests, and driving with a suspended license. The accident occurred yesterday in the late afternoon, around 18.30:111 pm, on provincial road XNUMX in the Caprara area, in the Reggio Emilia municipality of Campegine.

The truck, for reasons yet to be clarified, lost its load of steel components for construction scaffolding, which hit a car and two others. The first, a Citroen Picasso, traveling in the opposite direction, was crushed and of its three young occupants, all residents of Reggio Emilia, two died: the 19-year-old driver and his 21-year-old friend. The other 21-year-old on board is seriously injured and is in a reserved prognosis in hospital in Parma. The load also hit two other cars, a BMW with the driver unharmed and a Peugeot 208 with four people on board, slightly injured.

In addition to the Carabinieri, the 118 and firefighters intervened. After the violent impact, the truck fled but the Guastalla military, also thanks to the viewing of videos of the license plate reading gates, managed to locate it and track down the driver who fled. The 39-year-old was arrested and the truck seized. The bodies of the two young victims were made available to the Reggio Emilia Prosecutor's Office.