The driver of the scooter that hit the physicist Cervellati has turned himself in. 'I saw the blood and ran away'

The man who was on the scooter that hit the 93-year-old physicist Roberto Cervellati on Friday in Viale Angelico, Rome, has turned himself in, killing him.

He is a 51 year old, he presented himself to the Carabinieri in Trastevere. The man before the investigators said he was "pained and distressed" by what happened and that his escape was "due to panic after seeing the blood". The suspect, accused of vehicular homicide and failure to provide assistance by the Rome prosecutors, turned himself in to the police accompanied by his defender, the lawyer Federico Puggioni.

In front of the military personnel, the man provided his version of what happened. After hitting Cervellati, the suspect claimed to have fallen and once on his feet he asked a passer-by who had intervened on the spot to give him a mobile phone to give directions for help. At that point he noticed the blood and condition of the 92-year-old and in a panic he walked away with the scooter he had bought three days earlier and which he used to go to work. After reading about the scientist's death, he decided to turn himself in.

For the defender we are in the presence of "a story of pain. I have full faith in the work of the judiciary and the investigative bodies to ascertain the dynamics of the fact, expressing closeness to the victim's family members", states Puggioni.

The prosecutor in charge of the file, Andrea D'Angeli, will order the autopsy on the victim, which will be carried out in the next few days.