ROME, Jan 7 — A drunk driver who smashed into a group of German ski tourists, leaving seven people dead and 11 injured in an Italian Alpine village has been admitted for psychiatric care, Italian media reported yesterday. Prosecutors said the 27-year-old man was suicidal after realising what he...
A woman puts a candle at a makeshift memorial on Via Aurina in Lutago , South Tyrol, January 6, 2020. — AFP pic
Prosecutors said the 27-year-old man was suicidal after realising what he had done following Sunday's crash in the northern Italian village of Lutago, the daily Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. Witnesses said the car was travelling so fast that the force of the impact threw some of the victims several yards into the air.
Police said the driver, a local man who lived in Chiennes, about 30 kilometres away, had been charged with manslaughter. If convicted, he faces 18 years in prison.
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