motorcycle racer Edwin Straver, who last week crashed in the Dakar Rally, in the night from Thursday to Friday, the 48-year-old age-death.
The shows that I had crashed last week on Thursday in the second-to-last stage of the rally, in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and got it for him. Reportedly, reed, Straver, but the 50-mile-per-hour, but then he is unhappy and rightly so.
His partner and left a day later, in a statement to know that will Straver for about ten minutes with no heart beat and that he was on the spot, only to be used by the medical team that was on the spot.
Straver spent a few days in a hospital in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where it was found that the value of the centre Rijswijk, the netherlands is one of the top cervical vertebrae have been broken. On Wednesday, he was flown back to the Netherlands, where he died.
Edwin Straver, during the third stage of the Dakar Rally this year. (Photo: Pro-Shots).
Previously died, the Portuguese Paulo Gonçalves < / p> Straver was working on the third in Dakar Rally of his career. He finished last year as the first of the so-called kistrijdersklassement. In class, riders who choose not to be alone with a box containing basic necessities, and without any help from the outside, in the desert, go there.
on the death of Straver, a total of two drivers who were involved in the 41st Dakar Rally, which last week came out on top, and died. The Portuguese rider, Paulo Gonçalves, came during the seventh stage of life.
this is the third time, and for the first time since 1988 that the Dutch comes to life when the heavy woestijnrally, over the past few years, both in South America and, earlier, in Africa, was established. Truck driver, father Kees van Loevezijn passed away 32 years ago, after the truck is on it’s head bashed in and he gets out of the car and was ejected. The other dead man is a motorcycle racer Bert Oosterhuis, 1982).