The Smart in which little Manuel was traveling was hit by the SUV so violently that it skidded for twenty-two meters after the impact.
This is what emerges from the reconstruction of the accident of 14 June last in Casal Palocco, in Rome, in which a five-year-old boy died and his mother and sister were injured.
In the order with which the investigating judge of Rome ordered the house arrest for Matteo Di Pietro, the twenty-year-old youtuber driving the racing car, accused of aggravated road homicide , we read that "the excessive speed of the Lamborghini and the violence of the impact against the Smart are supported by the absence of traces of braking before the same, and by the presence instead of signs of drifting after the collision, impressed by the Smart for 21.70 metres».
The SUV would have reached 124 kilometers per hour in via Macchia di Saponara (over the 30 limit in that stretch of road) a few moments before impacting the Smart. The prosecutors entrusted the surveys to establish the car's parameters with the utmost precision in those moments . There were five of them in the car and at least two were intent on recording videos using their cell phones and a GoPro. The first results of the consultancy ordered by the magistrates are expected in the next few days, who want to recover all the video material of the cameras and mobile phones used to record The Borderline's social videos.
«I certainly had the perception that we were traveling at a speed between fifty kilometers per hour and one hundred. I was sure of it once I saw the Smart. Also another boy who was on board had recommended to Matteo to go slowly both a few minutes before the accident and in the previous days. At the time of the incident I was recording with the small camera while another friend was using the large one,” said a witness.
Di Pietro's lawyers, who deny that the young man was overtaking a vehicle near the intersection, aim instead to demonstrate that the child's mother may have cut off the Lamborghini , without giving due precedence.
(Unioneonline/D)
