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Anyone going? I'm going to try to head up the Col de Turini on Sunday for SS15/17. How early do I need to be there? I know it is a pretty popular spot. I guess coming up the D2566 from Moulinet is the only option unless I go at dark o'clock before the road closure. Any sneaky back roads in that I should know?
Saw a translated report on a website with witness statement from a clio cup racer stating the spectator had died.
Hopefully the reports are not correct but it doesn't strike me as the kind of thing someone would make up. Also stated an off duty fire fighter who was spectating performed CPR until the ambulance arrived but the guy had no pulse from about a minute after the accident.
Hopefully the reports are not correct but it doesn't strike me as the kind of thing someone would make up. Also stated an off duty fire fighter who was spectating performed CPR until the ambulance arrived but the guy had no pulse from about a minute after the accident.
Not good, but hopefully accurate and thus NOT a fatality :
http://www.francetvsport.fr/auto-moto/rallye/rally...
http://www.francetvsport.fr/auto-moto/rallye/rally...
http://www.dhnet.be/sports/moteurs/drame-au-rallye...
Google Translate said:
An irresponsible spectator was killed in the road exit of Hayden Paddon.It had to be a big party, it quickly turned into drama. It was a little over 20:30 that Thursday when Hayden Paddon, third driver to start on the road in this first special, lost control of his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC on an ice plate. The car in perdition has mowed a spectator badly placed in a slope, in the middle of a zone forbidden to the public. The man crushed between the car and the talus did not survive his wounds. Romain Degeer, Belgian champion of Clio Cup in 2015 preview on the podium of the Porsche Supercup Benelux last year witnessed live this dramatic accident mourning the Monte Carlo."We were just ten meters higher in the special stage. We had seen the guy post his Go Pro on the road and climb up one meter in the embankment, "testifies for the DH Romain. "We all shouted at him and told him not to stay there. It was thought that after two cars he would realize that he was badly put ... When Paddon arrived, the car slipped, squatted before the left and tapped the slope. The guy was broke, crushed by the car (after idling, the car seems not to touch the victim, who fell off the slope, ed) before stealing and falling head down on the road. A firefighter on site as a spectator tried to do a cardiac massage. He still had a pulse for a minute and then nothing. Relief took an incredible amount of time to arrive. We were a mile from the finish but they did not want to get the ambulance up since the finish. She had to come in the direction of the special, probably from the start. We stayed more than twenty minutes waiting for the ambulance. The guy had been dead for a long time even though the firefighter told us he had to massage until the doctors arrived and could not officially say he had died. We talked with John Kennard, Paddon's crew, and he could not get over the slowness of the relief. It's just that. That said, it would not have changed for him. It is sad, especially for the rally because we will say that the new WRC are dangerous, that we returned to the era of Group B, while this has nothing to have. It's just a beast out of a pilot on an ice sheet. "At the moment, the organizer still refuses to officially confirm the death of this spectator of about forty years. According to the prefecture of the High Alps, he was helicopter in cardiac arrest to the nearest hospital. The stage has definitely been canceled, the departure of the second will be given with 18 minutes delay, that is to 23.15.
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