The Lamborghini SUV driven by Matteo Di Pietro was traveling at over 124 km per hour "immediately before the impact" with the Smart, a collision that caused the death of little Manuel, 5 years old. This can be read in the order with which the investigating judge of Rome ordered the house arrest for the twenty-year-old, for aggravated vehicular homicide.
Di Pietro's arrest was triggered by the danger of repeating the offence, given the boy's "unawareness", and by the tampering of evidence, bearing in mind that "the cameras from the SUV have disappeared". For Di Pietro tomorrow comes the first confrontation with the investigators in the context of the guarantee interrogation: he risks a sentence of between 2 and 7 years.
According to the investigators, that dramatic June 14, the speed would have been reached in just 14 seconds by the car driven by Di Pietro and carrying three other youtubers in via Macchia di Saponara, in Casal Palocco in Rome.
The boys were intent on filming with cameras and mobile phones to post on social media in the umpteenth "challenge" of the TheBorderline collective. According to GPS data, "it emerges that at the moment of taking Via di Macchia Saponara at 15:38 the SUV stopped. It then picked up speed, reaching 124 km/h immediately before impact in just 14 seconds. The absence of traces of braking - writes the judge - probably demonstrates that the sudden and very rapid deceleration was a consequence of the sighting of the car near the point where the accident occurred".
For the investigating judge, the mother of the child had "inserted the arrow before turning" as reported by the driver of an Atac bus. The man said he saw the Smart that "activated the left turn signal and started the turning maneuver. The maneuver carried out by the Smart - for the turn into via Archelao di Mileto - had been very rapid, without hesitation, which leads us to believe that the driver had not seen or had not noticed the arrival of the Lamborghini, which in turn did not he had tried to brake . The investigating judge confirms that the SUV had been rented with "the sole and obvious purpose of impressing and capturing the attention of young web visitors to increase advertising earnings, to the detriment of safety and responsibility and consequently to proceed with a speed exceeding the indicated limits. Especially since some of the passengers present inside the Lamborghini had repeatedly asked to reduce speed ».
Above all in the light of the speed, the investigating judge specifies that Di Pietro's conduct, regardless of the behavior of the driver of the small car, must be considered the cause of the terrible fatal accident " regardless of the possible ascertainment of contributing factors possibly attributable to Smart ".
(Unioneonline/D)
