Viral challenges sometimes become very attractive challenges for society because they test our abilities or our abilities. However, when these are not controlled and have no limits, they can cause misfortunes as horrible as the one that has happened in the city of Rome.
There, in the residential neighborhood of Casal Palocco from the Italian capital, a group of well-known youtubers intended to carry out one of their viral challenges, but they did so without measuring the consequences, which ended up being fatal. The failed challenge of this group of young people ended up leading to a brutal traffic accident that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy.
The collision between two vehicles ended up causing a tragic outcome that has ruined the life of this little boy’s family and has left an aura of almost irreparable sadness in this well-known neighborhood of the city of Rome. The people who were able to witness the accident still do not believe how this group of young people, by taking their challenge to the extreme, could cause a misfortune of such enormous proportions.
How did the accident occur?
A group of five youtubers has caused a real misfortune in Italy. While they were fulfilling a viral challenge that was part of one of their regular videos, they ended up causing a brutal traffic accident that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy. This group of young people drove a Lamborghini Urus down a busy street in the Casal Palocco residential neighborhood of Rome when the disaster struck.
While driving at full speed, they hit the car of a 29-year-old woman who was taking her children to daycare. The luxury SUV violently hit the weak Smart of the mother causing the disaster. In addition, the vehicle in which the young people were traveling was traveling in the opposite direction and was doing so well above the speed allowed on the road.
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After the brutal impact, the 29-year-old mother and her two young children were seriously injured and were rushed by ambulance to the Grassy Hospital. Upon his arrival, his condition was already really worrying. While the woman and one of her children were admitted with a reserved prognosis after being quickly treated upon arrival at the health center, the doctors could not do anything to save the other little one who was driving in the car. The 5-year-old boy lost his life as a result of the impact.
After the accident, several police officers quickly arrived at the scene and proceeded to arrest the five young people who were traveling in the jeep. In addition, they confiscated their mobile phones on which they had recorded their trip. In the videos they could be seen driving with totally reckless attitudes and how they narrated their journey until they hit the mother’s car with her two children.
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The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, has issued a harsh official statement in which it has regretted the terrible event and in which it has wanted to convey its condolences to the family. A letter that he has published through his social networks and in which he has also conveyed his wish that the police can clarify everything that has happened.
“I join in the pain of the family of the little boy who lost his life in today’s tragic accident at Casal Palocco. I hope that the mother and little sister can recover soon and that the police find out who is responsible for what happened as soon as possible.”
What was the viral challenge of this group of youtubers?
This fatal accident that claimed the life of a 5-year-old boy occurred as a result of a viral challenge being carried out by this well-known group of youtubers. The challenge belonged to one of the great objectives of The bordelinethe name of the channel led by this group of influencers that has more than 600,000 subscribers and accumulates millions of visits each month.
The challenge in question was to accumulate as many hours as possible at the controls of this luxury SUV. In fact, the accident occurred when they had been behind the wheel for two days. The objective was to overcome the 50-hour barrier, as they explained in previous videos that they had already uploaded to their channel.
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In the hours before the accident, the group of youtubers had already uploaded several videos to their channel where they recounted how the adventure was going. An action that logically they did before knowing that their recklessness was going to end in tragedy.
This is how they explain what the operation of their channel consists of: “We are not rich, but we like to spend to entertain you! Everything we do is for you, the more support you give us, the more expensive and fun content we will bring, between bets, challenges and jokes of all kinds, we will try to make you laugh at all times”.
However, on this occasion, the challenge and the joke ended up getting out of hand to the point of causing the death of a child of only 5 years. A dangerous and unforgivable conduct that led to a fatal traffic accident that has shocked the city of Rome, as its own mayor has reported.