Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
investimento
English translation:
struck bt a vehicle
Italian term
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Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, Italian to English
investimento
There is one section about traffic accidents that offers several options: Tipo di incidente (es. investimento, scontro, ribaltamento, ecc.):
I'm confused about "investimento" versus "scontro" The dictionaries I'm checking define both of them as "crash" OR "collision." I'm guessing that one of them means crashing into an object ... a house, a wall, a tree etc. while the other means a collision with another vehicle, but if so I can't decide which is which.
If someone can help with "investimento" then I can deduce what the other one means. (For "ribaltamento" I figured out "rollover".)
Grazie mille !!
| 3 +4 | (being) hit (by a car) |
Luigi Argentino
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| 5 +1 | run over, run down |
Vittorio Ferretti
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| 4 | Run over |
Emiliano Pantoja
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Proposed translations
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Native in: Italian (Variant: Standard-Italy)
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English
(being) hit (by a car)
"Typically, car insurance death benefits are paid out if an individual named in the policy dies as a result of an injury sustained while occupying a car in a car accident or by being hit by a car."
https://insurance.freeadvice.com/information/auto/article/11...
https://www.corlessbarfield.com/2016/09/pedestrian-hit-by-a-...
https://www.legalexpert.co.uk/death-fatal-accident-claims/ho...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2020-02-16 08:59:31 GMT)
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Per investimento IMO nel linguaggio "legalese" italiano dell'infortunistica stradale si intende l'essere colpiti direttamente durante un attraversamento (pedonale o meno) o indirettamente come conseguenza fortuita di un incidente stradale tra 2 o più vetture che sbandando colpiscono il pedone. Per inciso, si può anchge essere colpiti da un albero, ma come hai precisato siamo nell'ambito dei "traffic accidents".
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