Rally spectator killed after being hit by car wheel. Alessandro Valletta, the 22-year-old who on March 16 was accidentally and very seriously injured while following the Ciocco Rally as a spectator.
The young man was hit by a wheel that had come loose from a car that had had a racing accident on the timed trial in Renaio (Lucca) where he witnessed the passing of the competitors from a hill over four meters high and at a safe distance from the road.