A 69-year-old Italian spectator was taking pictures behind a dune when he was hit by the truck of Czech Ales Loprais in the heat of the competition.
The tragedy shook the Dakar Rally 2023: the czech pilot Ales Loprais ran over and killed a 69-year-old Italian spectator throughout the competition in his truck and shared the video: “we didn’t see it”.
The victim was behind a dune taking pictures and Loprais He didn’t find out until hours after the ninth episode when competition officials showed him.
“I have very bad news. We were in bed when the stewards showed us a video of a racing accident, where we bumped into a man taking pictures of his wife behind a dune.“, explained through social networks.
And he was sad: “He was injured, nauseous for two or three hours, and then had a heart attack while being taken to the hospital. A human life ended because of me, indirectly, because I was driving“.
Lopraischief general of trucks, He admitted that neither he nor his staff “realized” what had happened and proved it in videos of the event.including one from inside the cabin.
“That does not change that a person’s life has ended. The man is Italian, I don’t know his name from the investigation, a 69-year-old man who came to see the Dakar and unfortunately was behind that dune and none of us saw him“, he hinted.
The Czech extended his condolences to the family and friends of the deceased and said that what happened was “with him for the rest” of his life.
Photo: @dakar
The position of Ales Loprais after the fatal accident in which he starred in the Dakar Rally 2023
The Czech pilot did not start the tenth round of the competitionwhere it led the classification of the truck, which made itself to the authorities as a result of the accident that ended the life of an Italian fan the day before the raid, the organization reported.
Loprais could not defend the lead in the special interval Haradh Y shaybah for the investigation that was opened to clarify the sad event on Tuesday.
Source: Tycsports
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