Overview
- The collision occurred shortly after 12:30 p.m. on March 15 along provincial road 185 between Caravaggio and Mozzanica near the Montizzolo restaurant.
- A Citroën C5 carrying a couple, their two young children, and the children’s grandmother was thrown into a roadside canal, killing the 38-year-old father and the 73-year-old grandmother.
- Two young children were among eight people rescued with injuries reported across the four vehicles, with the children not in life-threatening condition according to local reports.
- Preliminary reconstruction points to an imprudent overtaking maneuver by a Mercedes traveling from Caravaggio toward Mozzanica, with formal findings still pending.
- Emergency responders deployed two helicopters along with ambulances and automedical units, and the road was closed in both directions for several hours for recovery and on-site investigation.