overwhelmed and killed Francesco Valdiserri, the girl driving arrested – Corriere.it

Drama in the night up via Cristoforo Colomboin Rome. A boy who would have accomplished 19 years in November, Francesco Valdiserriwas run over and killed while walking on the sidewalk of the cross road towards Gra at via Giustiniano Imperatore by a Suzuki Swift. The car was driven by Chiara Silvestri, 23, from Dragona, in the car at the moment of impact with a 21-year-old friend. After the investigations by the local police in Rome, the girl tested positive for the alcohol test and not negative for cannabinoids. She discharged from the hospital, where she had been accompanied in a state of psychomotor agitation, she was taken to the offices of the Marconi group of the municipal and arrested. She was then granted house arrest. The charge of road murder aggravated by her driving under the influence of alcohol and having had the license suspension for the same reason. The agents, led by commander Massimo Fanelli, will again hear the girl’s boyfriend together with the victim’s friend, who was miraculously unharmed, and a motorist who witnessed the accident.

The car would have suddenly lost control and ended up on the pavement, first uprooting a signpost and then running over the boy, before crashing into the concrete wall of a parking lot. Among the causes of the terrible accident there is also the high speed: no signs of braking were found on the asphalt.

Francesco attended the first year of university and was the son of the journalists of Corriere della Sera
Paola Di Caro and Luca Valdiserri. Paola, the mother, wrote on Twitter: My wonderful 18 year old is gone. My baby who had started running in life. A car hit him in the night and he won’t come back. Nothing will come back. Nothing makes sense anymore. Nothing. Thousands i messages of condolence arrived from friends, colleagues and many, many people affected by the tragedy.

Meanwhile, the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation file for street murder. The prosecutor on duty Erminio Amelio will entrust the task to perform the autopsy.