The 16-year-old who was driving the motorbike on which Michael Barailler, his peer and resident in Saint-Pierre, who died yesterday afternoon, Sunday 5 May, in a road accident in Saint-Pierre, did not yet have a driving licence.
The motorbike, recently given to him, was also still without insurance. The boy is still hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the ‘Parini’ hospital in Aosta; the investigations are entrusted to the Carabinieri of the Aosta Company, who in the next few days will send an initial report to the Turin minors’ prosecutor’s office.
Among the hypotheses of crime there is that of vehicular homicide. The events occurred in the early afternoon along the hilly municipal road that leads to Babelon, the so-called ‘route des Salasses’ where yesterday many people went to follow two special stages of the Valle d’Aosta Rally as spectators. For reasons to be ascertained, the motorbike went off the road, ending up about twenty meters down an embankment. For Michael Barailler, seriously injured in the impact, there was nothing that could be done. When rescuers arrived, he was declared dead on the spot after desperate resuscitation attempts.
