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Motorcycle: Race accident, rider Dean Viñales dies at 15

Dean Berta Viñales he had a passion for motorcycles like his cousin Maverick, who races in MotoGP. He was just 15 years old. He died after a serious accident in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He raced in Supersport 300. According to the first reconstructions, after a crash he would have been hit by the pilots who were following him.

He was prepared to be transported to the hospital in Seville by helicopter, but the situation worsened and the doctors were unable to save his life in the center of the circuit.

At 15.11 the press release from Dorna arrived, the company that organizes the World Championship: «Involved in an accident with several riders at turn one, the rider was the victim of severe damage to the head and chest and, despite the efforts of the doctors, unfortunately he did not make it».

In addition to his race, everything else was stopped program which scheduled race-1 of the Superbike round at 2 pm.

Dean Berta Viñales was born on April 20, 2006 in Palau-Saverdera. He raced on a Viñales Racing Team Yamaha Yzf-R3. And the team of the father of the 26-year-old Aprilia MotoGP rider career winner of a Moto3 World Championship in 2011 and 23 races. The 16-year-old boy was in his first season in the Supersport 300 World Championship.

The penultimate fatal accident in the world championship took place last May. the date of 2016. Jason Dupasquier, 19-year-old Swiss rider, was invested in the final stages of qualifying for the Moto 3 Italian Grand Prix at Mugello. Luis Salom, a Spanish Moto2 rider, had died in similar circumstances in 2016. The incident impossible to forget is that of October 2011 in which Marco Simoncelli was killed, hit by Valentino Rossi’s bike after slipping.

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