Road violence continues to take its toll in Naples with increasingly worrying data regarding the frequency of accidents and fatal collisions. In the last 48 hours, the number of fatalities since the beginning of the year reached 19 people with the deaths of two more pedestrians who were hit by cars at different times and in different environments while crossing the road. This state of emergency has sparked outrage and indignation from a series of associations who, united in the “City of Naples 30” committee, together with many families of road victims, will take to the streets on Sunday, November 16, with a procession on foot and bicycles to meet at 11.30 in Plebiscite Square where a Flash mob entitled: will be held “Don’t call it an accident, no more deaths on the road!”.
Investment
Pedestrians involved in fatal collisions, to date, account for eight of the total of 19 deaths in traffic accidents in the Neapolitan capital since January 1, 2025. In the last 48 hours, Nazario Cretella93-year-old Neapolitan resident who was attacked on November 7 via Simone Martiniin Vomero district, died after five days of intensive care at Cardarelli e hospital Mario Castello46 years old, died after more than a month in intensive care, in Mare hospital, following investment in via Mario Palermo, in Ponticelli. In the first case, an elderly man was crossing a pedestrian crossing with his wife when he was hit by a car driven by a woman in her eighties who had stopped to help. The wife, who had a week-long prognosis, was still in a state of shock as her daughter described how the walkers felt “abandoned in a town where the Wild West reigned”. In the second case, the 46-year-old man got off the bus and was preparing to cross near traffic lights through Palermo when he was thrown from a Renault car driven by a 62-year-old man.
Naples, accident in Piazza Bovio: policeman injured on the road transported to CTO
Investigation
The investment occurred in via Simone Martini became the target of inspection by the Vomero Satpol PP operational unit led by Alfredo Marraffino. The investment that occurred in Ponticelli, however, was taken over – as was the practice of fatal accidents – by the Road Accidents section of the city police led by Vincenzo Cirillo who, following the technical findings at the site, carried out a careful investigation to clarify an important element for the purposes of the judicial authorities’ investigation, namely the crossing near the pedestrian crossing as confirmed. The 62-year-old man who drove the Renault through Palermo underwent a toxicology test and had his driver’s license revoked, resulting in the vehicle being confiscated. The bodies of the two victims have been handed over to judicial authorities.
Flash mobs
The demonstration scheduled for Sunday by the “City of Naples 30” Committee will coincide with the International Day of Road Victims which, in Naples, will be remembered with “crosses on the streets where pedestrians and cyclists lost their lives” said spokesman Luca Simeone. Mobilization will start at 09.30 Prince of Naples Gallery with a cycling and walking procession that will arrive in front of the Prefecture, at Piazza Plebiscito and the Municipality of Naples, at Piazza Municipio. «The deaths of Nazario Cretella and Mario Castello add more victims to the massacre that is taking place in Naples, a city where people risk their lives by walking or crossing at intersections, that is why we will take to the streets and shout once again to the institutions that there is a need for more security» explained Simeone, president of Napoli Pedala accusing «of the estimates and lack of attention of the Municipality of Naples to a problem that is becoming increasingly worrying» to which the association has filed a lawsuit. file.
“THATNapoli Pedala Association file a complaint to Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office to report possible criminal liability related to a fatal accident” explains lawyer Massimiliano Formisano referring to “a complaint requesting to ascertain possible liability for negligent official acts, involuntary manslaughter and injury due to negligence”.
Acerra, beat his wife but the police intervened: the 61-year-old man was arrested
Complaint
“From 2022 to 2025 the association sent special communications to the competent authorities to report dangerous situations and propose concrete and immediately achievable solutions, but each report was systematically ignored” emphasized Formisano who legally assisted the association. “The temporary coincidence between the filing of the complaint, yesterday, and these deaths represents a dramatic confirmation of the importance of intervention by the courts to protect the safety of citizens,” the attorney concluded.
