Overview
- Officials confirmed two deaths — a tram passenger and a person on the street — and about 38 to 40 injuries after the Line 9 car struck a building in central Milan.
- Rescue operations concluded with multiple hospital transfers after the late-afternoon crash near the Central Station on Viale Vittorio Veneto.
- Prosecutor Marcello Viola opened a judicial inquiry into negligent homicide and bodily harm, with the driver hospitalised and set to be questioned.
- Mayor Beppe Sala said preliminary evidence indicates the driver did not activate a track switch and had missed the prior stop, though speed compliance remains unclear.
- Transport operator ATM is cooperating with investigators, and attention has intensified because the tram was a recently introduced Tramlink model during Milan Fashion Week.