Italy investigates US woman in crash that killed teen

ROME - Italian officials were investigating a US soldier stationed at an airport in northern Italy on Monday after a 15-year-old boy was allegedly killed by a vehicle after he was hit by a car on a city street. was given.

Italian media said the woman was driving a car that crashed into the edge of a roundabout around 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the town of Porcia, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Aveeno base.

Corriere della Serra said Giovanni Janier was chatting with two friends on a bicycle path near the road when he was killed and his body dumped dozens of meters (yards) away. He died on the way to the hospital. His friends were not injured.

US military officials expressed their "deepest condolences" and said they were working closely with Italian law enforcement. "The young man's family and local community are in our hearts and prayers," a written statement from Aadhaar officials said. He declined to provide any details, and US officials did not identify the woman.

Italia Media said the driver, 20, was placed under house arrest at the base while an investigation by local prosecutors continues.

Soon after the accident, she stopped to help and called for medical help, Italian media said. No one answered calls to Pordenone prosecutor Raffaele Tito's office. Corriere della Sera quoted him as saying on Sunday that if an indictment comes out, US officials will be Italian-US. Military treaty under the auspices of NATO.

This could mean that any prosecution would be handled by military authorities in the United States, as in the U.S. It happened after a Marine jet, taking off from Aveeno base in 1998, cut a cable running up a hill, causing a cable car to collapse. A slope and 20 Europeans aboard were killed.

The townspeople complained that the lighting of the intersection was poor. Mayor Marco Sartini told Sky that the light was cut back in line with the Italian government's appeal to reduce energy use amid fears surrounding Russian energy supplies amid the war in Ukraine.

Beyond any other responsibility for the accident, "I hope the city reflects on the state of street lighting and signage," Ada Zanier, an aunt of the victim, told Sky. He said there had been "a series of other accidents" in the roundabout area.

The 1998 accident provoked national outrage in Italy. In that accident, a Marine EA-6B prowler swooped through a canyon just above the treetops, severing the cable from its tail fin before returning safely to the Aviano base. Pilot was eventually acquitted of 20 counts of involuntary manslaughter in a court martial in the United States.