Two years ago, on August 29, 2024, 26-year-old Paola Sanna from Cagliari died, involved three days earlier in an accident on state road 291 while returning to Sassari from Alghero driving her car.
Yesterday, in a summary court in Sassari, the driver of the car involved in the head-on collision was sentenced to two years for vehicular homicide , with a suspended sentence.
The 50-year-old, a non-Sardinian, will have to pay 2,000 euros to the Road Accident Victims Fund, while the victim's family has not filed a civil suit.
The sentencing was delivered by preliminary hearing judge Gian Paolo Piana, the prosecutor Gianni Caria, and defense lawyers Umberto Carboni and Nicoletta Verlezza. The aggravating circumstance of drug use, which had occurred many days earlier, was dropped.
The young woman, who lived in Sassari, competed in triathlons and studied at the Polytechnic University of Turin and then in Cagliari. She was widely described as a cheerful and altruistic girl whose last act of generosity, as per her expressed wishes during her lifetime, was to donate her organs.
