«The problem of too many deaths on the streets of Rome it’s not so much the Securing the most dangerous intersectionshow to make the prohibitions very clear, to place some deterrents to those who run too much, respect the rules a father go slowly. But above all, if there is the Road Homicide Lawthen the judges must apply it. Because if the penalties were severe and certainno one would drive like that”. Alessandro D’Agostino lost his wife, Serena Greco, 38 years old, in a terrible road accident on October 23, 2020 on Nomentanaat the crossroads with Spallanzani Street – Trieste Street. Mowed down by a man who had thrown the his motorbike at 90 km per hour and had run a red light at one of the capital’s black points.
“There are no checks or speed cameras”
At that intersection, considered high risk, the works of securingwhich included the modification of the turns on via Nomentana and towards via Zara, the signage resurfacing and the pedestrian crossing protectionended exactly one year ago. Yet the Nomentana remains one of the most dangerous arteries in Rome. «And instead there isn’t even a speed camera. Not even one back o traffic lights closer together to slow down. No control. No finenot even for motorcycles which were not allowed to circulate in the central lane.”
Sentence halved on appeal
These are negligences that have Alessandro’s life turned upside downof his Daughter who is 12 years old today and of his own son who is 9 years old. «This man has destroyed a life, that of the woman I had chosen foreverand has destroyed a family. It’s a trauma huge – is Alessandro’s story of these last three years -. Every day my children see their classmates’ mothers outside school, when they go home they hear them calling “mamma” While they won’t be able to do it anymore“. But what he really can’t stand is theepilogue of the legal proceedings. On appeal the pena per Cristian Lucerne (who had the License suspended for two years) was almost halved: from 3 years and 3 months in the first degree, to two. «He was driving a motorbike with a displacement for which he didn’t have a driving license. He was walking along a no lane allowed on two wheels. It is passed with the red light. I had cannabis in the body. He was going 90The impact was so violent that break Serena’s scooter in two and throw it six meters away. It has no never apologizedhe could send a telegram. But after the sentence he told me friend request on Facebook: I refused, I found it a bad taste gesture – he continues -. What lesson can my children learn from this sentence? That may not comply with the rulesand, which can push the limitsthat life doesn’t matter.”
The lawyer: «Surprised and saddened»
Even the lawyers did not expect such a verdict: «We were left surprised and saddened upon reading the device – says D’Agostino’s lawyer, Hyacinth Wolf -. In any case, the dynamics and the “preponderance” of responsibility due to excessive speed and the fact that Lucerne had passed with the red light. All circumstances that the defendant has always denied: a behavior that has left us perplexed”. The reasons for the sentence, which have just arrived, “they do not explain the reason for the reduction of the sentencesince the minimum contributory negligence of Greco had already been taken into consideration by the first-degree court”, concludes Lupia.
