Mondragone, motorcycle-car collision: 16-year-old dies in hospital

Mondragone: a 16-year-old killed on the road and a hit-and-run driver on the run and hunted by the police. This is the tragic outcome of yet another road accident in Campania.

It happened yesterday evening in Mondragone. The victim was called Luigi Petrella and was only 16 years old. He was riding his scooter and was returning home when for reasons still being ascertained he collided with a car.

THEimpact it was violent and the boy was thrown meters away. but the driver preferred to run away instead of providing assistance.

The young man was then taken to the hospital but it was already too late: he died on arrival and from the serious injuries he had sustained. The investigations into the case are ongoing. police to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the facts.

 The pain of the mayor of Mondragone, Francesco Lavagna

"There are no words, gestures, silences - writes on Facebook the mayor of Mondragone, Francesco Lavanga - it is a pain that makes the mind and heart explode. My thoughts go to the family destroyed by the pain and to Luigi, a wonderful boy from our land, who at only 16 years old, died yesterday evening in a scooter accident.