2023-06-15 15:08:08
Italy
Influencers in Lamborghinis cause the death of a small
A five-year-old child was killed in Rome, Italy, by young people filming themselves for social media.
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A Lamborghini in which were five young people aged 20 to 23 hit a mother and her two children traveling in a city car.
Influencers driving at high speed in Rome in a sports car while filming themselves to feed their social networks caused the death of a five-year-old child, media reported on Thursday. The accident occurred on Wednesday when the car, a rental Lamborghini on board which were five young people aged 20 to 23, hit a mother and her two children traveling in a city car.
They had set themselves a new challenge
Some of the young drivers are part of a group of influencers posting videos of their sporting or recreational activities on social media. They have over 600,000 subscribers on YouTube, 260,000 on TikTok and 88,000 on Instagram.
The crash happened as they set themselves a new challenge of driving at high speed in the Italian capital and spending 50 hours in a row in the car. Witnesses quoted in the media said they had seen them for one or two days in the neighborhood peaking at 90-100 km / h, well beyond the speed limit in town.
“Faced with such stupidity (…), nothing can be done”
In a video presented as the last filmed by the young people, we see one of them getting into a blue Lamborghini, swaggering in front of the camera. “Help yourself with your Smart, which is worth 300 euros used in a supermarket, while mine is worth a billion,” he says.
The accident and the death of the little boy provoked strong political reactions. “We can propose and approve a new traffic code (…) by improving education, controls and sanctions. But in the face of such stupidity (…), nothing can be done”, commented Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport.
And on their YouTube channel, Internet users also condemned their actions. “Have the decency to shut down this channel out of respect for the family you destroyed,” one wrote.
(AFP)
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