Capua – A Friday evening of pouring rain, freshly packed groceries, perhaps the intention of returning home to Vitulazio soon. Thus ended, in a moment of darkness and dull noise on the Appian Way, the life of Angela Maria Scialdone, 59. She is yet another victim of a cruel accounting system, that of the Campanian roads, which continues to update at a relentless pace.
The tragedy unfolded in a matter of moments. Angela was likely crossing the highway when a Fiat Punto suddenly arrived. The impact was devastating: the 59-year-old died instantly, thwarting all rescue efforts.
But the horror of the accident was compounded, in the initial moments, by the shock of its dynamics: the car didn't stop. The driver pressed the accelerator, leaving a lifeless body on the wet asphalt.
Only later did the circle close. A 58-year-old woman spontaneously showed up at the Carabinieri station in Capua. Visibly shaken, she confessed that she was the driver of the Fiat Punto.
"I didn't see her, it was raining too hard," she repeated to the officers, trying to explain the inexplicable. "I ran away because I was in a panic." A justification that didn't prevent her from being charged with vehicular homicide and failure to provide assistance.
While investigators work to reconstruct the exact circumstances of the accident, the pain of a senseless death, which occurred during a banal, everyday act, remains. Rain, poor visibility, and perhaps distraction have transformed a stretch of the Appian Way into yet another scene of mourning, refocusing the spotlight on the safety emergency gripping the region's arteries.
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