MotoGP: An eight-year-old child motorcycle rider dies after being run over while training in Italy

Little Mathis Bellon was training for the National Speed ​​Championship when he lost control of his minibike and slipped on the asphalt

After a very serious accident on his minibike, an 8-year-old boy has died in Trentino, Italia. Mathis Bellon trained at the Trentino circuit for the National Speed ​​Championship and could not survive the serious injuries sustained in the accident that took place last week, on July 22, at the go-kart circuit in Ala, when he suddenly lost control of his minibike. In the fall he slipped on the asphalt and another motorcycle ran over him. I was admitted to the hospital in a very serious condition.

Rescued on the runway, Mathis was transported by emergency helicopter to the hospital in Verona, where he entered pediatric resuscitation. The parents requested permission to transfer their son to Montpellier since they reside in Sainte-Maximebut after seven days of agony little Mathis ceased to live.

“She lasted until her little sister’s birthday, which was 3 years old on Wednesday,” Mathis’s godfather declared to The Reunion Daily. “His organs saved five lives, he was a great champion to the end.” “An angel who filled us with the joy of living,” Mathis’s family wrote. Condolences for this very young life so dramatically extinguished floods the social profiles of the motor world that Mathis loved so much.

“Unfortunately, we were there in that race. The atmosphere was not festive because there was apprehension for Mathis who was the protagonist of a very serious accident on Friday. All the staff of Even-T can’t help but join in the pain of a terrible tragedy. It’s bad to write when these things happen, when in a sport that gives joy and adrenaline things don’t go well. Goodbye Mathis!, reads a memory posted on Facebook.

“Little Mathis, we have no words to express the sadness that invades us. You will live forever in our hearts,” writes the National Speed ​​Championship. Mathis was considered an aspiring motorcyclist and was part of the Team Race Experience School directed by Sebastian Gimbert.

a controversial sport

The competitions of minimotos they have been popular since the late 1980s, but the controversy over their dangerousness is strong. In Italy alone, on January 9, a 5-year-old boy was seriously injured when he crashed into a barrier while riding a minibike near a motocross track in Bellinzago (Novara). The child was hospitalized with a reserved prognosis at the Maggiore hospital in Novara with head and chest trauma.

In recent years, two fatal accidents have devastated the world of child pilots: in 2016 in Viadana (Mantua), where a 6-year-old boy died, in 2018 in Ironworks (Turn), with a 9-year-old victim.

The diffusion in Italia of the minimotos is due to Vittorio Orazi of the company Victor Razzi, that I decided in 1987 to create models for sale. Initially it was a simple hobby for children, but later the interest of companies in the sector such as Polini transform the game into a competitive discipline. The cost of these miniature vehicles was initially quite high, but later they turned to the Chinese market to lower costs. Today, therefore, they are available to everyone; the maximum speed cannot exceed 50 kilometers per hour, but they are often updated and manipulated.

“If you go shopping minimotos made in China, be careful”: according to the Guardia di Finanza of the Nettuno section in the province of Roma, minibikes sold as toys are very dangerous. Without security guarantees, they will have a defect at the origin. A serious episode took place in Lazio, when a boy from Frosinone He died while playing in the garden.

It talks about some 2,500 copies bought by Roman families and residents throughout Lazio, from Pomezia to Anzio and Tivoli, for illegal traffic and a turnover of about 800,000 euros. The motorcycles cost between 260 and 380 euros. Some 500 units have been seized in a shed along the south coast of the capital.

“It is not correct to define them as toys”, explains the captain Vincenzo Di Filippo. “They have an internal combustion engine of about 50 cc and reach speeds of up to 40 or 50 km per houradults often use them for short trips, even within a property.”