Runaway truck driver who killed two boys arrested

The alleged driver of the truck that fled last night in the Reggio Emilia area after losing its load of scaffolding that overwhelmed three cars, causing two deaths, one very seriously injured and four other less seriously injured, has been tracked down and arrested by the Carabinieri of Guastalla.

He was driving with a suspended license: it had been revoked in August for drunk driving. He is accused of vehicular homicide, grievous bodily harm and fleeing from accident in the case of murder and injuries, now at the disposal of the Prosecutor's Office headed by Gaetano Paci. The man, a resident of Montecchio Emilia, was also charged with drunk driving, having refused to undergo 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 overwhelmed a car and hit two others. The first, a Citroen Picasso, which was travelling in the opposite direction, was crushed and 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 cargo 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 the firefighters. 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.