{"id":34976,"date":"2026-09-15T05:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/daniel-maldini-son-of-italy-and-ac-milan-legend-paolo-has-drivers-license-suspended-after-car-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:03:13","slug":"daniel-maldini-son-of-italy-and-ac-milan-legend-paolo-has-drivers-license-suspended-after-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/daniel-maldini-son-of-italy-and-ac-milan-legend-paolo-has-drivers-license-suspended-after-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Maldini: Son of Italy and AC Milan legend Paolo has drivers license suspended after car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Italy international Daniel Maldini has had his driving licence suspended after he was found to be over the legal alcohol limit following a car crash in Milan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maldini, son of Italy and AC Milan legend Paolo and grandson of the similarly feted Cesare, was one among six people to suffer minor injuries after his Porsche Carrera 4 collided with another vehicle in the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The attacking midfielder had scored the winning goal for Cagliari in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/cjn5dk9yp4wyt\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">2-1 win against his parent club Atalanta<\/a> in Serie A just hours before the accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milan city police confirmed to BBC Sport that there had been a road traffic accident involving the 24-year-old footballer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said: &#8220;Mr Maldini was administered a breathalyser test at the scene&#8221; and his &#8220;driving license was confiscated following a positive result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was taken to hospital for precautionary checks before being released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to reports, an initial breath test carried out by the police at the scene of the accident recorded a blood alcohol level of 0.91 grams per litre, while a second reading registered 0.89 g\/l &#8211; both higher than Italy&#8217;s legal limit of 0.5 g\/l.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, Cagliari said Maldini had &#8220;undergone toxicological screening following recent media reports&#8221; and that &#8220;all tests returned negative results&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club added Maldini will join the squad for training on Monday to prepare for the team&#8217;s forthcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maldini became became the third generation of his family to play for Italy when he made his debut against Israel in a Nations League fixture in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has made six appearances for his country, with the latest coming in September 2025. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9gk5ezz5l4ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy international Daniel Maldini has had his driving licence suspended after he was found to be over the legal alcohol limit following a car crash in Milan. Maldini, son of Italy and AC Milan legend Paolo and grandson of the similarly feted Cesare, was one among six people to suffer minor injuries after his Porsche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34978,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34976\/revisions\/34978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}