4 dead - Lorenzo Pantuosco aged 23, Lorenzo Vancheri aged 21, Vincenzo Parisi also aged 21, Denise Maspi aged 15 - and 3 injured are the toll from an accident which took place around 4 in the morning along the provincial road 244, at the gates of Alexandria.
The driver, serious but not life threatening, and two other passengers traveling on the Peugeot 807 remain hospitalized.
The car, in which the seven people were traveling, which ended up off the road in the early hours of this morning, would not have stopped when the carabinieri stopped, after being noticed in the Cristo district of Alessandria, as it proceeded irregularly through the town.
The driver, having seen the flashing lights on of the service vehicle and the reversal to stop them, would have accelerated, heading towards the outskirts of Alexandria.
After a chase up to the police academy at the end of Corso Acqui, the men of the Arma would have 'lost' the Peugeot 807, communicating it to the headquarters.
The race of the runaway car, on the other hand, continues, as do the searches to intercept it.
Shortly afterwards, still during the escape, near the Cantalupo level crossing, the man driving would have lost control of the car, hit the guardrail, made a flight of several meters and ended the mad rush ending up in the external area, in the courtyard - garden of the house near the level crossing.
Young, Italians, they would be from Alexandria.
It is a first reconstruction of the accident provided by the investigators, still engaged in investigations and checks, also on the reason for the escape which later became fatal.
Toxicological and alcohol test results are awaited.
Among the causes of the accident, however, a dramatic mix of high speed, fog,
road surface particularly slippery and made dangerous by ice given the low temperatures recorded.
The noise of the crash was felt by the residents, shocked at the sight of the overturned car that was catching fire.
Nearby there was also a large gas cylinder.
Some occupants would have been outside the vehicle, a young woman stuck.
Carabinieri investigations into the driver of the car.
In fact, there could be the conditions for the arrest on the charge of vehicular homicide.
The 22-year-old is hospitalized.
It is a question of verifying whether he was driving under the influence of alcohol and / or drugs.
Formally, the adoption of the measure against him will take place on the basis of the evolution of the clinical picture.
In the meantime, after the go-ahead from the police and the authorities, the restoration work by RFI technicians has begun at the level crossing just before the hamlet of Cantalupo on the Alessandria - San Giuseppe di Cairo line.
In fact, in the complex dynamics of the accident, the Peugeot 807 knocked down the switch box of the system that regulates the mechanism for lowering and raising the bars.
Following the damage,