YouTubers blast at 100 kilometers per hour in Rome on car with family, boy (5) died | Abroad

They call themselves ‘The Borderline’, a group of YouTubers from Rome with about 600,000 followers and 150 million views on their channel in 2022 alone. A channel that lives on challenges and sponsors. Last week they had thought of driving a rented Lamborghini Urus, a 2,200-kilo SUV worth more than 300,000 euros, for fifty hours at high speed through Rome without getting out.

Yesterday afternoon things suddenly went badly wrong: at an intersection in the southeast of the city, the car crashes into a small Smart ForFour, with 29-year-old Elena and her two young children on board. Manuel, 5, is thrown from the car by the impact and later dies in hospital. His 3-year-old sister Aurora is seriously injured. The mother was also taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The five occupants of the Lamborghini, all around 20, are unharmed. The father of the two children, who later came to the scene of the accident, was furious and tried to attack the YouTubers, but was stopped by the police.

There are votes for this kind challenges to ban, but given that YouTube is part of multinational Google with headquarters in the US, that will not be easy. The Borderline channel is therefore still active and contains the most bizarre challenges. From eating as many pieces of sushi as possible and building a floating house to surviving in a forest for 24 hours to driving around in an expensive SUV for 50 hours.

If an investigation shows that the YouTubers are actually at fault for the accident, they face a prison sentence of two to seven years for ‘murder on the road’.