A 20-year-old United States Air Force
(USAF) woman has been arrested for being drunk at the wheel and
running over and killing a 15-year-old Italian boy on a cycle
path near Pordenone in northern Italy early Sunday morning.
The woman, who was driving back from a night out, reportedly
lost control of her car after a roundabout and hit Giovanni
Zanier at around two thirty in the morning.
Her blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit, sources
told ANSA Monday.
Zanier's mother had told him to walk back from the bar he had
attended with two friends even though his home was several
kilometres away.
The two friends were unhurt in the crash.
The US woman, who has not been named, works at the nearby AVIANO
USAF base, one of the biggest in Europe.
She has been arrested and place under house arrest, charged with
vehicular homicide.
The results of blood alcohol and drugs tests will be made public
shortly, police said.
She sustained minor injuries due to glass fragments and her air
bag.
The local council at Porcia recently ordered street lights in
the spot to be turned off at two a.m., but police said the
accident would probably not have been averted even with the
lights on.
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