Aci Sant'Antonio (Catania), hits a pedestrian and runs away. Tracked down and reported by the Carabinieri

It was around 18pm when, The Operations Center received a call from a citizen who reported that there was a man collapsed on the side of the road, along the via Giacomo Matteotti in Aci Sant'Antonio, hit by a motorist who, instead of providing assistance, ran away.

Having learned the news, the operators at the Central, in addition to requesting the intervention of the 118 doctors, They immediately sent a patrol from the local station to the scene, which reached the unfortunate man in a matter of minutes, identifying him as a 60-year-old local man.

The Carabinieri entrusted him to the care of doctors who, with the ambulance, took him to the emergency room of Acireale, and then immediately started the investigations to trace the perpetrator of the accident, acquiring the footage from the video surveillance systems in the area.
The analysis of the images allowed investigators to reconstruct the dynamics of the events, identifying the blue small car that, while the 60-year-old was crossing the road, hit him with the right side of the vehicle, causing him to be thrown first onto the hood and then onto the asphalt.

However, the first videos acquired, useful for understanding what had happened, did not allow the identification of the driver of the vehicle, so the military personnel of the Arma tried to trace the route that the car had taken to reach Via Matteotti.
After several hypotheses and after having acquired other recordings from municipal cameras which, for the protection of all road users, monitor the town, The Carabinieri managed to identify the license plate of the blue small car, placing it, without any doubt, at the site of the accident at the time it occurred.

Having identified the owner of the car, a 72-year-old resident of Aci Sant'Antonio, the patrol reached him at home where they found his car parked right in front. The inspection of the vehicle did nothing but confirm its involvement in the accident, because the Carabinieri noticed the damaged right front headlight, part of the dented hood and also a lesion to the windshield, always on the right side, that is, where the impact with the pedestrian had occurred.. At that point, the soldiers rang the intercom of the 72-year-old's house, explaining why they were looking for him and he admitted to having walked along Via Matteotti shortly before, also saying that he had heard a bang along the road but that he had not stopped because he had not understood what had happened.

His justifications, however, were of no avail because the investigators, in reconstructing the incident in detail, had already seen that he, about 5 minutes after hitting the 60-year-old, he returned to the scene, but traveling in the opposite direction, probably to determine the seriousness of what he had done. However, he did not stop to provide assistance even when faced with the 60-year-old lying on the ground.

The investigative framework has been clarified, The Carabinieri reported him to the Judicial Authority for "failure to provide assistance and personal injury following a road accident", also suspending his driving license.
The victim was later released from the hospital with a 30-day prognosis due to his injuries.