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Italian Bride-to-Be Killed in Mykonos Car Crash Days Before Wedding

Greek authorities have opened a negligent-homicide investigation while police work to reconstruct the collision and a companion remains in critical condition.

Overview

  • The crash occurred in the night to Monday, June 15, and killed 37-year-old Sara Ceccantini of San Giovanni Valdarno who was days away from her planned wedding.
  • Greek prosecutors have opened a negligent-homicide probe and investigators are reconstructing the sequence of events after reports that an oncoming vehicle crossed into the wrong lane.
  • At least one other person who was travelling with Ceccantini was seriously injured and is being treated in a Greek hospital in life-threatening condition.
  • Ceccantini’s hometown publicly expressed shock and offered condolences and local reports say colleagues at the Prada Valvigna plant paused work as a sign of mourning.
  • Authorities are still finalizing the cause, arranging repatriation of the body and may pursue legal charges depending on the reconstruction’s findings, a development that raises renewed attention to road safety on Greece’s busy tourist islands.