Brit woman, 20, killed in Naples horror crash when friend flipped their car ‘after drinking and taking drugs at nightclub party’
A BRITISH woman has been killed in Italy after her friend crashed their car while allegedly under the influence of drink and drugs after returning from a nightclub.
Lia Lou Di Massa, 20, of Chatham, Kent, died when the Vauxhall Corsa overturned and smashed into a wall in Massa Lubrense, near Naples.
According to local media reports, Lia was on the way back from a nightclub early yesterday morning near the coastal resort of Sorrento with Angelo Guarracino, 21, when the car flipped and crashed.
Guarracino, who was not badly injured, failed a drink and drugs test at the scene of the crash and police are investigating him for causing death by dangerous driving.
Witnesses rushed to help and paramedics were quickly on the scene but Lia was declared dead.
She was originally from Chatham, Kent, and went to the town's Bishop of Rochester Academy.
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It is understood that she had been spending the summer working at her grandfather's ice cream parlour in Italy.
A police spokesman said: ''A 21 year old man has been arrested in connection with a fatal car crash that left a young British woman dead.
“The driver was arrested after testing positive for drugs and alcohol. He has been placed under formal investigation but has been bailed.''
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