Dakar death toll now 4.
From http://www.smh.com.au
The driver of a car involved in a collision with a competitor in the Dakar Rally has died, organisers announced on Thursday.
The accident occured when the driver, who hasn’t been named, collided with a 48-year-old Argentine rally driver who was returning to a bivouac in Chilecito, 30km after the end of the 10th special stage at Fiambala.
A statement from the event’s organisers, ASO, said: “Immediately they were informed by the competitor the race management sent medical help, a medically-equipped vehicle and a helicopter, to the site and alerted the local emergency services.
Story continues below “The patient was transported to hospital in Tinogasta where he unfortunately died.”
ASO added that a judicial inquiry had been opened into the accident by the local authorities in the Argentine province of Catamarca.
This latest fatality brings to four the number of Dakar-related deaths on this year’s rally.
Last week two maintenance workers were electrocuted in separate incidents.
And on the opening stage a 28-year-old female fan was killed when a competitor’s car ploughed into a group of spectators near the town of Rio Cuarto.
The rally, regarded as the most dangerous in the world and which claimed the lives of three people in 2009, finishes in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
