Jennifer Alcani was only 13 years old. On January 9, late at night, she had left home secretly from her parents to spend the evening with two older friends.
At around 5am on Friday morning, her mother, who knew nothing and trusted her to sleep in her room, received the news that any parent would want to avoid: her daughter was in hospital, having suffered an accident in Abbadia Lariana. Jennifer died on 16 January at the Manzoni hospital in Lecco, after six days in a coma, never regaining consciousness.
On Thursday afternoon, the doctors were forced to give up. She was admitted to the Neuro-reanimation ward, where she had been sent the morning after the crash. Her condition had been serious from the start. Throughout the week, her friends, although they could not go in to see her, had gathered in front of the hospital, under her window.
The accident occurred shortly before 5 a.m. on Friday, January 10.
The driver, a 22-year-old man, was traveling at more than 150 kilometers per hour and after exiting a small curve lost control of the car, which ended up on the concrete guardrail. In the car with him, in addition to the driver, were two older friends, including Jennifer, who was sleeping in the back seat.
The video posted on TikTok, according to Corriere.it, shows the final moments, showing the friend driving the car with the music at maximum volume.
Jennifer was wearing her seatbelt, but did not wake up after the crash, suffering severe head trauma and falling into a coma.
Before the accident, Jennifer had spent the night with her friends drinking heavily. The car was driven by a 22-year-old friend of hers, while the other driver, a 19-year-old from Malgrate, had posted the video on TikTok. The latter had not yet obtained his license and was therefore driven by his older friend. The two young people had bottles of alcohol in the car and, apart from that, there had been no other apparent problem. The 22-year-old driver, already investigated for serious road injuries, now also risks being charged with manslaughter. Furthermore, after the collision he had tried to leave the emergency room to avoid an alcohol test.
Jennifer was enrolled in the first grade of the Stoppani school in Lecco, even though she had attendance problems and had failed twice. In April she would have turned 14.Top Channel