The Carabinieri have arrested Francesco D'Alterio, 47, for road homicide , the man who was driving the Smart that overturned today in Giugliano in Campania , causing the death of an 8-year-old girl who was on board.

There were 4 people on board the two-seater Smart FortTwo. D'Alterio was driving, his partner was next to him with the dead child in her arms, and in the trunk was the other daughter, 16 years old , taken to the hospital in Pozzuoli with several fractures. The girl and the child were her only children, from a previous relationship. The woman also ended up in the hospital, under observation, while the man only suffered a few abrasions.

According to initial investigations by the military, Federico D'Alterio did not have a driving license and the car was uninsured . The man, as far as we know, had been released from prison yesterday. He was being held for theft.

(Unioneonline/L)

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