The 45-year-old driver was in serious condition for more than a week after his accident during the second stage of the rally raid. He suffered in particular from a fractured vertebra and cerebral edema.
Almost every year, the Dakar carries its share of serious injuries, sometimes deaths. This Monday, January 15, a little more than a week after the fall which left him in serious condition during the second stage of the Dakar 2024, the Spanish motorcyclist Carles Falcon lost his life, at the age of 45 . “Carles has left us,” the Twintrail Racing Team wrote in a statement. The medical team confirmed that the neurological damage caused by the cardiorespiratory arrest during the accident is irreversible.”
Spanish motorcyclist Carles Falcon had been in “serious condition” for more than a week after a fall on the second stage of the rally raid between Al-Henakiyah and Al-Duwadimi, in Saudi Arabia, which caused him to fracture his bone. ‘a vertebra. In addition to cerebral edema, the pilot suffered in particular from a “fracture of the C2 vertebra”, according to comments from Carla Prat, the communications manager of Twintrail Racing Team to the Spanish public television channel Teledeporte. “This is what urgently worries the doctors the most,” she said, adding that Falcon had to undergo an operation at Riyadh hospital.
Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), the organizer, specified in a press release that at “kilometer 448 of today’s special (Sunday) at 3:52 p.m., Spanish motorcycle rider Carles Falcon (n° 135) was the victim of a fall”. “Immediately informed by a pilot who was following him, the organization dispatched a medical helicopter which took care of the injured motorcyclist in a condition considered serious. He was airlifted to Al-Duwadimi hospital,” ASO said.
