Shane Cross
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Shane Kenneth Cross |
| Born |
22 August 1986 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 7 March 2007 (aged 20) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 Australia
|
| Sport | Skateboarding |
Shane Cross (22 August 1986 – 7 March 2007) was an Australian street skateboarder from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Cross gained global prominence within the skateboarding community during the mid-2000s, before his death in a motorcycle crash when he was 20.
Cross was featured in both Australian and international skate magazines and was interviewed by Thrasher Magazine in 2004. He was voted by his Australian peers as Slam Magazine’s Skateboarder of the Year in 2005 and featured on the covers of Transworld Skateboarding (February 2005), Slap Magazine (April 2007) and Thrasher Magazine (June 2007).
Cross gained attention for numerous achievements in the realm of skateboarding, such as his successful execution of a frontside nosegrind at the iconic spot called "El Toro" following his first attempt, his drop in on a vertical wall during a tour of Australia (featured in a montage from the Time to Shine video) and his 360 flip at a location known as the "Lincoln 13".
Cross featured in several prominent skateboarding videos and his sponsors included Legacy Skateboards (discontinued – founded by former Australian Globe teammate, Matt Mumford),Flip Skateboards,Volcom,Globe,Thunder, 4128 and Ricta.
On 7 March 2007, Cross was killed in a motorcycle crash in Melbourne, Australia — he was a passenger on a motorcycle ridden by Swedish professional skateboarder, Ali Boulala, who was seriously injured in the crash. Prior to the crash, both riders were affected by alcohol, and neither wore helmets as a safety precaution before embarking on the ride. The Daily Telegraph newspaper, published in Sydney, Australia, disclosed in a post-accident article:
Boulala had a blood alcohol concentration of .162 and Cross, who died in hospital, had a blood alcohol level of .18. Neither of the men were wearing helmets.
Following a four-month coma, Boulala was subsequently charged, found guilty of culpable driving and sentenced to a four-year prison sentence.Huck magazine published an interview that one of its journalists had conducted with Boulala following his release. In the several months following Cross' death, senior Flip team rider, Arto Saari, quit from the Flip company, despite having been with the company for the entirety of his professional career, due to the distress that was caused by Cross' death.
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