RVM: RACE ORGANIZATION REPORTS DEATH OF YOUNG GIRL INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The Madeira Wine Rally Organizing Committee  announced the death of the young girl 12 years old involved in the accident in the last stage, in a statement sent.

“The Madeira Wine Rally Organizing Committee regret to confirm that the young woman involved in the incident that occurred during the PEC 17 Rosário 2, ended up not being able to resist the injuries she suffered. At this painful moment we address our feelings to family and friends”, can be read in the note.

A very sad end to the Madeira Wine Rally.

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20 Responses

  1. Oh how awful. Twelve with all her life in front of her and to be cut short so tragically. The same day that little Archie’s life support had to be turned off. God bless them both. Just heart-breaking for all concerned.

  4. May she rest in peace. I watched the video and was shocked to see that it appears she was one of several people who were crossing at a crosswalk when it occurred – the others narrowly escaped being hit. I really hope those weren’t her parents or older relatives crossing with her because that would show a total lack of judgment and responsibility for taking unnecessary risks. What reasonable adult crosses a road in the middle of a rally? No blame on the kid, at that age you misjudge the risk. And I’m also shocked that such an event is held without appropriate barriers (you know that when a crowd gathers, people do idiotic stuff, like cross the road when cars are racing) and personnel to restrain them. Really the very idea of the public being so very near these cars is a huge risk, a driver could so easily lose control and slam into the crowd. Very sad. I hope she didn’t suffer too long.

  5. An absolute tragedy that was probably avoidable. My heart goes out to the family. But, it also goes out to the driver and co driver. Who are, I am sure suffering incredibly also.

  6. … Terrible Tragedy for all those involved, Obviously for the young girl, her family and friends, also for anyone who witnessed it and the emergency services and police, and also the Driver of the rally car ,, they all must be shocked by this and it will stay in their minds for a long time , I think the only ones “partly” to blame must be the Safety Stewards and those in charge of safety procedures and measures within the organisers of the Rally itself …

  7. I feel sorry for the driver who will have to live with this trauma even though it wasn’t his fault in any way and the spectators who had to witness such a violent and avoidable accident. I don’t feel sorry for the adults who made this child believe it was at all safe to cross the road during the race. They should be charged with gross negligence and endangerment of a minor.

      1. Oh please, now it’s “judgmental” to say that those responsible for this child shouldn’t have let her cross the road in the middle of the rally. Judgment isn’t the problem. The clear lack of judgment that proved to be fatal in this case is. I’ll say it again: those who made her believe it was in any way safe to cross that road with cars racing, that you can estimate the speed and that it’s a rational risk are negligent and partly responsible for her death.

        1. Yes, judgemental, like the majority of your self-righteous comments. A young child dies, in circumstances that we are not sure of, yet you seem to believe that the child’s poor parents are entirely to blame. That it was their fault that the child did what she did. She did what eight year olds all over the world do, she didn’t think. I doubt if she had ever heard the words negligent, risk, rational and estimate. Elsewhere you speak of moronic people, you are one.

          1. My first comment makes it very clear that I did not blame the child in any way. Those responsible for the child are to blame for leaving her unsupervised at a potentially fatal event. If that’s judgmental, we need more “judgment” because without a laissez faire attitude like yours, the result is unsupervised kids in perilous situations, who, as you say, don’t think and don’t understand the danger. Responsible parenting and judgment would have her alive.

  8. It’s the organisation at fault…..lack of stewards…and security areas..should never have happened
    .should be one area for spectators to view in safety…it’s always a tragedy that should have been avoided and for humans to learn …..but it will not be the last tragedy because there they never learn ..
    …..

  9. Sadly there is only so much the stewards can do if people are bloody-minded enough. Years ago I stewarded in a forestry stage of a major Scottish rally, and it was difficult enough to get people to stand in safe positions.
    To our horror, minutes before the first car was due, a young couple appeared pushing a pram up the middle of the road ! Requests for them to move off met with a volley of abuse – they lived there, you see. The rally drivers would just have to slow down……..
    Fortunately tragedy was averted in that case. But unless you are going to ban road rallying/racing completely ( and there are many who would) then there is always going to be this risk.

    1. I do believe that there are moronic people who don’t understand the danger. The organization in charge of the race does need to do more than they did though. I don’t see any barriers, I don’t see any guards, any attempt. When half the population of any country is practically mentally challenged, all the necessary security measures must be in place. I’m sure some idiots will still jump the barrier, still think a crossing means something in the middle of a race, still think they have the right to be on the road because they live there, but then the blame will be squarely on them for being careless, not following the rules and going past clearly established physical barriers. This kid’s guardians failed her.

  10. … Lavinia ?? (( Mentally Challenged ))What a Nasty and Pathetic thing to say which just shows how Bitter and Twisted You are !!!! …

    1. “Mentally challenged” was the polite way of saying what I really thought. The behavior of the adults here only proves my point. There was even talk of cancelling this part of the race because people were being so disobedient and not following the rules during the first days. Sadly, they went ahead with it and a child paid with her life for the irresponsibility of those charged with her care. I stand by what I said: mentally challenged they are, and mentally challenged was too kind a descriptor.

      1. Polite, you don’t know the meaning of the word. Nor that that of sympathy or pity. What a horrible person you are.

  11. Please, please do not exchange such hard words on such an occasion. We are all very sad and the parents are to be pitied. They will probabely feel terrible for the rest of their lives about it…nothing worse can happen to you – that is so very sad and yes I feel sorry for them, wether they are to blame or not. It is not on us to judge! Nobody is perfect. I am sure Lavinias reaction is so hard because she also is truely shocked and sad.

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