Investigators are closing in on the suspect: they're looking for a foreigner who may have already left Italy.
The hunt continues unabated for the hit-and-run driver who, on the night between November 15th and 16th, caused the accident that cost the life of Tina Spatarella, a 61-year-old teacher, who was hit on the State Road 7quater near the Villa Literno junction, in the Caserta area.
Nearly a week after the tragedy, the State Police have still not identified the perpetrator, who fled after abandoning the half-destroyed car.
According to the reconstruction of the Caserta Highway Police, the BMW involved—which at high speed collided with the car carrying the teacher and three other people, all of whom were injured and remain hospitalized in stable condition—was registered to a Romanian citizen.
The man was tracked down by investigators, but he stated that he was not the driver during the accident: according to his version, the car had been stolen from him.
The investigations into the ownership transfers, combined with a series of testimonies collected in the hours following the crash, are leading to an increasingly precise identikit: investigators are looking for a man, likely a foreigner, who left Castel Volturno after the accident and may have already left the country.
Meanwhile, investigators continue to work on the material they have acquired: video surveillance cameras, phone records analysis, and contact information checks on the vehicle's owner. The case opened into the tragedy—which shocked the school community and the entire district—now aims to identify the fleeing driver, while the condition of the three injured remains stable. The investigation continues unabated.
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