nth tragedy on the streets of Rome where, on the evening of Sunday, May 21, Marco Mannage, a 24-year-old boy of Bangladeshi origin, was hit and killed while returning home on the scooter. The young man was found on the ground by some passers-by who raised the alarm, reporting to the police the escape of the vehicle that had overwhelmed Mannage. The author of the accident, which took place in via Casal del Marmo, turned himself in this morning. "I left because I was in shock," said the 26-year-old man accused of vehicular homicide. The defendant could also be accused of failing to provide assistance. Mannage is the 58th victim on the roads of Rome and its province since the beginning of the year. The boy, who would have turned 25 in a few days, had recently phoned his mother saying he was returning home. Then the accident.
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The first to speak of a road pirate were witnesses on the spot who had reported a white van that had hit the boy leaving him on the ground. The vehicle, then, according to passers-by, would have moved away, without giving assistance to the boy. At that point, local police investigations began to track down the man behind the wheel and clarify the dynamics of the accident, also through the analysis of footage from surveillance cameras in the area. Until the turning point of the investigation this morning, when a young man of 26 years presented himself in the offices of the municipal police of the XV Cassia Group, declaring that he was responsible for what happened.
The man, defended by lawyer Luca Pallotta, could be subjected to toxicological tests to understand if he has taken drugs in recent days. Mannage's murder adds to the 150 pedestrians and 48 cyclists who have died since the beginning of the year. According to the report of the observers Asaps, the Association supporters of the Polstrada, the data of Lazio are catastrophic. The Region would be second only to Lombardy in the ranking of deaths in road accidents.
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