Scorpus
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Scorpus was a famous charioteer in Roman times who lived at the end of the 1st century AD. He won 2,048 victories and died before he was 27 years old.
Although it is unknown exactly how he died, it is most likely to have been in one of the many dangerous crashes that occurred during chariot races. The Romans called these naufragia or “shipwrecks”. Charioteers wrapped the reins around their bodies, so after a crash they were often unable to cut themselves free with their daggers. Crashes often occurred near the turning posts, as shown in a circus relief in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, which shows a fallen charioteer being trampled by another team.
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