A viral challenge to drive 50 hours non-stop ended in the death of a five-year-old boy in Rome

The viral challenge consisted of driving 50 hours continuously without interruption. That was the group’s goal five youtubers and it ended in tragedy.

AND five years old He died this Thursday in Rome, in the Casal Palocco district, after the car he was in with his mother and three-year-old sister crashed into another vehicle. A luxury SUV crashed into a Smart with a family at high speed.

After the event, the police confiscated the mobile phones of the young men in the SUV in order to check what they were doing at that moment. And the fact is that the five – four boys and one girl – are known on social networks for recording all kinds of videos, including some with luxury cars. His channel, TheBorderline, has 600,000 subscribers and more than 150 million views since he started working on the platform more than three years ago. According to sources consulted by Efe, the boys were performing at the time a challenge that consisted of driving non-stop for 50 hours.

The Italian press commented on the event. the newspaper Corriere della Sera he made in the last hours a profile of Matteo Di Pietro, the alleged leader of this group, who they assure belongs to a wealthy family. They also ensure that the police conduct searches at one of their homes and at TheBorderline headquarters.

Chi è Matteo Di Pietro, ora «minacciato di morte»: è figlio di un dependente del Quirinale https://t.co/2GZ4iGzsFd

— Corriere della Sera (@Corriere) June 16, 2023

They ran into the opposite lane

The accident that ended the life of the little boy Manuel, five years oldit happened on a two-way highway, when the car was with young people crashed into the opposite lane colliding with a vehicle carrying a family.

Manuel died soon after in the emergency room of the Grassi hospital, where he was taken by ambulance, while his mother and sister were admitted with a reserved prognosis to the Sant’Eugenio hospital.

One of the aspects that still needs to be clarified is who was driving the vehicle that crossed over to the roadway at the time of the collision, since in different recordings young people change in the driver’s seat.

The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, has already sent his condolences to the family: “I hope that the mother and sister will recover quickly and that the police will find out as soon as possible who is responsible for what happened,” he said on his social network.