Dakar Rally tragedy: 20-year-old mechanic dies

The French accident/” title=”Dakar tragedy: 20-year-old mechanic dies after accident”>Quentin Lavalée, head of car mechanics number 726 of the PH Espot team, participating in the classics category of the Ral li Dakar, has died this Friday, during the dispute of the last stage of the Dakar between Bisha and Yeda, due to an accident on the connecting route of the assistance vehicles.

This morning at 11.30am (Saudi Arabia time), at kilometer 234 of the assistance link route, there was an accident between an assistance vehicle and a local truck, according to the Local police. Unfortunately, the driver of the vehicle, Quentin Lavalée, a French national and a member of the PH Espot team, died as a result of the accident, “the Dakar organization said in a statement.

He was 20 years old. The passenger who was traveling with him, Maxime Frère, of Belgian nationality, was injured and was taken consciously to the National Guards Hospital in Jeddah where a complete check-up is being carried out. He has an abdominal and thoracic contusion “, concludes the writing.

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