Blood on the streets of Naples: a 21-year-old dead and another in serious condition

Two tragedies just a few kilometers apart. Under the magnifying glass the area of Neapolitan nightlife venues

NAPLES – Two road accidents within a few hours and a few kilometers of each other. The balance of Saturday evening in Naples reports an incredible sequence of dramas on the asphalt, one of which cost the life of a very young woman.

THE TRAGEDY IN VIA CATTOLICA

The reconstruction is by the municipal police officers who intervened on site. At around 6.30 am, four friends leave the RIVA club in Via Cattolica, one of the busiest in the eastern area of the Neapolitan capital, and get into a car, one Fiat Panda, to return home. After a few meters the owner of the vehicle asks the driver to stop, because she believes she is in better conditions to drive the vehicle. They then stop and the owner of the vehicle gets out of the back seat to start driving. she doesn’t have time to start driving before she is hit by a car, probably a large displacement SUV, which kills her on the road. hit. The hit car makes a hasty escape. The girl who was hit, 21-year-old Sara Romano, resident in the historic center of Naples, died on the spot. Investigations are underway to identify the fleeing vehicle, video surveillance images of the area are being acquired and witnesses are being interviewed.

THE INVESTMENT IN VIA LEOPARDI

At 4.30 a girl, Rita Granata, 21 years old, after an evening spent with her friends, was taken home by taxi (one of her friends was on board the taxi). Having gotten out of the taxi while crossing via Leopardi (the street where she lives), at the intersection with via Rossetti, she was hit by a vehicle, a Volkswagen Polo driven by a 24-year-old boy, with a 22 year old passenger on board. The collision was extremely violent, it seems that the girl who was hit was thrown forward about 30 metres.

FIRST THE ESCAPE, THEN THE RETURN TO THE PLACE < /h3>

Following the collision, the car continued driving only to return to the scene after at least 30 minutes. The condition of the girl who was hit immediately appeared serious, she was transported by 118 ambulance to the San Paolo hospital, where she was diagnosed with a reserved prognosis. The vehicle was seized, the driver was subjected to toxicological tests and identification is underway, because they were both without documents.