Overview
- In Milan around 4 a.m., a Kawasaki Ninja 650 collided with a taxi at viale Campania and viale Corsica, killing Mithum Sandeepa Perera Kuranage, 23, and Elisa Teodora Tranca Dranca, 20.
- Local police report a preliminary reconstruction indicating the motorcycle was traveling fast and may have run a red light, with the taxi overturning after the impact.
- The public prosecutor ordered the seizure of the vehicles and helmets in Milan, and autopsies on the two victims are considered likely as investigations continue.
- In Rome shortly after 2 a.m., a 17-year-old driving a Ligier microcar died after a collision with a Toyota Yaris on via Cristoforo Colombo, with the passenger and the 53-year-old driver injured and hospitalized.
- Rome’s IX Gruppo Eur seized both vehicles, the car driver underwent routine alcohol and drug tests, and investigators are checking reports that streetlights were off at the crash site, where the city’s road deaths now total 22 this year.