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Attilio Caffaratti is believed to be the first motorsport ever fatality in Italy. He was killed when the three wheeler vehicle Darracq-Soncin 4.5HP he was riding left the road and crashed.

It happened on Monday, 10 September 1900. Caffaratti was listed amongst the favorites to win his class in the Circuito di Brescia, a car and motorcycle race held along a 223-kilometer course which passed through Brescia - Cremona - Mantua - Verona - Brescia. Enterd by the Bender-Martiny team of Turin, he was the 14th competitor to start from Brescia.

Less than two kilometers after the start of the event, while running on a slippery road due to the rain that had fallen the night before, Attilio Caffaratti lost control of his machine that slid off the road ending into a ditch. It happened in the small village of Canova, near Muscoline, less than three kilometers east of Brescia, Italy. Unfortunately the rider was thrown out of his seat and violently hit his head against a large mulberry tree, suffering serious injuries to the right occipital region.

A by-passer, Achille Caldera, two Italian Carabinieri, Sebastiano Incolano and Pietro Strola, and two unnamed peasants who were working in a field nearby, immediately came to help the injured man but they could do nothing to save his life. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Doctor Arrighi who came from Canova, twenty minutes later.

At the age of 22 Attilio Caffaratti from Pinerolo, province of Turin, italy, was already a well-known trike rider in northern Italy. In 1899 he had won his class in the Bologna-Poggio Renatico-Malalbergo-Bologna trail in a Perfecta, and in the following season he obtained a 2nd place in the International Speed Race Torino-Asti, behind the French rider Louis Gasté in a Darracq Perfecta, and a second place ex-aequo with Virginio Benedetti, behind Camillo Monti in a Prinetti & Stucchi, in the "Record dei 5 Chilometri". In the 1899 Circuito di Brescia, one year before his death, he raced in the four-wheel and two-seaters category, riding a Darracq-Soncin.

Different accounts reported the spelling of the deceased rider's surname to be Caffaratti, Caffarati or Caffarratti, depending on the source. But it is likely that the correct form is Caffaratti

Darracq-Soncin was a French brand, specialized in tuning trikes and motorcycles, founded by Mr. Soncino, an Italian mechanic from Padua, who had emigrated to Paris. It was just Soncino the winner of the trikes class in the 1900 Circuito di Brescia, riding a Soncin 4HP; Carlo Masserati on a Carcano 1.1/4HP won the motorcycle class; Baron Monti in a Prinetti-Stucchi 4HP, Ettore Nagliati in a De Dion-Bouton 3.1/2HP and Baron Alberto Franchetti in a Panhard et Levassor 12HP won the car classes.

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