Athletes Deaths Thread

[rafalgorka 1,517]

L’Equipe says Davide Rebellin is dead. Some kind of training accident

Edited November 30, 2022 by rafalgorka

[heywoodu 15,135]

32 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

L’Equipe says Davide Rebellin is dead. Some kind of training accident

Yep, 51 years old and only a month or two after the end of his 30 year pro career....

 

Awful news

[phelps 7,670]

1 hour ago, rafalgorka said:

L’Equipe says Davide Rebellin is dead. Some kind of training accident

He was hit by a truck while training. 

No chance to survive, unfortunately. 

Italian roads are really a graveyard for cyclists of any age and any level. 

[Grassmarket 3,403]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Yep, 51 years old and only a month or two after the end of his 30 year pro career....

 

Awful news

Was still active in the autumn Italian Cup races just a few weeks ago,

[heywoodu 15,135]

17 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Was still active in the autumn Italian Cup races just a few weeks ago,

Yep, October 2022 was his last month as a professional cyclist. A career which started with the junior world championships against the likes of Bo Hamburger, Beat Zberg, Michele Bartoli, José Maria Jimenez (RIP), US Postal-train driver Pavel Padrnos and Erik Dekker in....1988!

 

Man, he got a 9th place in Lombardia, between Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and such.

[Federer91 2,793]

F THIS, seriously...   

[Dunadan 1,103]

https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/vicenza/cronaca/22_dicembre_02/davide-rebellin-travolto-ucciso-denunciato-camionista-tedesco-b6fa55a2-723b-11ed-ba36-d1789be83134.shtml

 

 

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Death of Rebellin, a German truck driver reported: he got out of the truck and looked at the dying cyclist

 

The driver of the German truck who, on the afternoon of Wednesday 30 November, in Montebello Vicentino, overwhelmed and killed the 51-year-old former cycling champion Davide Rebellin, was identified and reported on the loose, only to then get away and lose track of himself. The sixty-two-year-old truck driver was identified thanks to the collaboration between the carabinieri and the German police. He is already in Germany and has not been arrested because the German penal code does not provide for the crime of vehicular homicide. The prosecutor of the Republic of Vicenza, on the accident, has opened a file, as mentioned, for road homicide aggravated by the failure to rescue. The lorry driver is charged with a plea bargain with the court of Foggia in 2001 for violation of the obligation to stop in the event of an accident with people involved. In 2014, his driving license had already been withdrawn by the Chieti Police for drunk driving.

 

The cameras
The carabinieri had acquired the images of the surveillance cameras in the area, in particular those aimed at the parking lot of the "La Padana" restaurant, not far from the point of the accident. The electronic devices - as the investigators hoped - evidently filmed the "offending" truck as it accessed the rest area, around the time the fatal accident occurred. Two incoming trucks had been filmed in times compatible with the fatal investment. Attention had immediately focused on the truck with a German license plate which, once it entered the rest area, had remained stationary in the square for about four minutes. According to the reconstruction made by some witnesses, the driver got out of the truck and approached the victim, to immediately go back into the cockpit of the truck and leave. The trucker himself was also photographed by some of those present.

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The heavy vehicle was owned by a German shipping company from Recke (Northern Rhine) and had arrived in Italy on Wednesday morning for a series of loads to be made in Verona. Thanks to the investigations carried out by the investigators in the Verona company, it was possible to compare the photos of the truck driver's identity card with those taken at the point of the tragedy. The German police then identified the company first and then the driver.

 

I don't know if I am more disgusted by this bastard or by the company that hires people with such history as drivers.

Edited December 2, 2022 by Dunadan

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Patrick Tambay :-(((((((((((

[phelps 7,670]

 Sinisa Mihajlovic lost his battle against Leukemia...

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11546393/Sinisa-Mihajlovic-dies-aged-53-battle-leukaemia.html

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Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris passed away at the age of 72.