Lucrezia Ciotti He was only 14 years old and had a great passion for football, but a tragic car accident cut short his young life. Rayan Lawaj died after nearly two days of agony in the hospital, leaving his family and the communities of Martinengo and Comun Nuovo in deep grief. The tragedy occurred along the former state road 498, in Ghisalba, as the boy was returning home after evening training.
Rayan Lawaj dies at 14 after being hit by a car: the tragedy after training
As reported by Bergamo News , Rayan Lawaj, 14, died this morning , Thursday 22 October, at the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, where he was hospitalised in desperate conditions after being hit by a car.
The young man was involved in the accident which occurred on Tuesday 20 October , around 22.40pm , along the former state road 498, in the Ghisalba area, while he was returning after an evening dedicated to football.
The boy, who lives in Martinengo with his family, was walking on the edge of the road , near the intersection with Via Crocette, when he was hit by an Alfa Romeo Giulietta driven by a 38-year-old man living in Fara Olivana.
According to initial reports, the accident occurred during heavy rain , on a stretch of road without street lighting. The driver stopped immediately to call for help, but the fourteen-year-old's condition immediately appeared to be extremely serious . The Carabinieri of the Treviglio Company are investigating the incident, reconstructing the dynamics and clarifying the circumstances in which the boy was on the provincial road.
14-year-old dies, Tritium and Martinengo grieve: "Our hearts go out to the family."
The news has thrown the communities of Martinengo, where the family had recently moved after living in Urgnano and Comun Nuovo, and the latter, where Rayan was born and raised, into despair. A student in Bergamo, the boy had a dream linked to football : after playing for Comun Nuovo and Uso Zanica, he had joined the youth teams of Tritium in Trezzo sull'Adda, in the Milan area.
As reported by Prima Bergamo , Giuseppe Pardeo, the club's sporting director , recalled the incident. He expressed his sympathy to the family and explained that the club doesn't have the means to take the young players home. When it emerged that Rayan lived in Martinengo, he was offered the option of playing for a closer team, such as Forza e Costanza, but the final decision was left up to him. " We tell everyone: it's good to play close to home; you can't afford to have to travel an hour every time, unless you're a professional ," Pardeo said. The director added that he didn't know which training session the boy had attended that evening, specifying that training typically ended between 8 and 8:30 PM and that some of his teammates often drove him home.
" We join the family in their grief, and we pray for him ," he concluded. The mayor of Martinengo, Pasquale Busetti, also expressed his condolences to the family and refocused attention on the safety of the road where the accident occurred. " A tragedy ," he commented, reiterating " the extreme danger of the current roadway, further aggravated by the narrowness of the carriageway ."