Mountain Views
Mail Covering the foothills of the Yarra Ranges & Murrindindi Shires
20 Tuesday, 18 August, 2015
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Fatal rollover By JESSE GRAHAM
Flowers left at the crash site on Monday, one day after the fatal crash. 143154 Picture: JESSE GRAHAM
YARRA Glen Football Netball Club is mourning one of their young players this week, after a car rollover on Sunday claimed the life of 16-year-old Cooper Ratten. Cooper was the rear passenger in a 2014 Volkswagen Tiguan that veered off Glenview Road in Yarra Glen and rolled, just after 3am on Sunday 16 August, in foggy conditions. Emergency services were called out to the crash, but Cooper, who received life-threatening injuries in the crash, died on the way to hospital. Yarra Glen Football Netball Club president Vincent Erickson told the Mail that he and more than 120 others went to the clubrooms on the Sunday, to mourn the under-18s player who had helped his team win against Wandin only a day earlier. He said the teenager, who recently joined the club, was a “key position” player and described him as a “natural athlete”. “He had a good set of hands, he was a good mark,” Mr Erickson said. “Basically, he’d come from fairly good breeding - some of it’s going to filter through, definitely. “It’s a loss to the club and a big loss to his team - and now they have to go into the finals without Cooper being there. “It’s going to be tough for them on the field, that’s for sure, and even tougher off the field.” Cooper is the son of Hawthorn assistant coach and former Carlton coach Brett Ratten, who grew up in Yarra Glen and also played with the club. Mr Ratten wrote a heartfelt tribute to his son in Monday’s Herald Sun, where he said his son had been “taken away too soon”. Continued on page 3
Cooper Ratten died on Sunday after a car rollover in Yarra Glen.
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