Overview
- The pedestrians were struck on Corso Garibaldi near Porta Nolana while using a marked crossing.
- One woman died at the scene and the other died after arrival at Ospedale del Mare.
- Municipal police say the Mercedes driver, a Naples resident, was stopped and taken for toxicology and alcohol screening.
- Witnesses reported the car was traveling at high speed, and the vehicle came to rest after hitting three parked cars as all involved vehicles were seized.
- Authorities cordoned the area for technical inspections to reconstruct speed and crash dynamics, and formal identification of the foreign victims is still pending with differing reports on nationality.