For eight days it remained in induced coma in the hope that the doctors could operate on him after the fracture of a vertebrado not brain damage reported were too serious and on January 15 the 45-year-old Catalan pilot, Carles Falconbecame the latest victim of the Dakar. The team broke the news TwinTrail with which the motorcyclist had decided to run the historic desert rally which has been held in recent years Saudi Arabia. “The medical team confirmed that the neurological damage caused by the cardiorespiratory arrest at the time of the accident is irreversible. She left us,” they wrote in a statement.
Falcon is the 78th victim of the dunes in 46 editions of the competition, born as Parigi-Dakarthen moved to South America for reasons related to security in the area Sahel and finally landed in the Gulf in the last five years. “Carlos was a smiling person, always active, who passionately loved everything he did, especially motorbikes. He left us doing something that was his dream, racing the Dakar. He was having fun, he was happy on the bike. We must remember him for his smile and for the happiness he aroused in everyone,” adds the team.
Catalan was not a rookie, this year was his second Dakar. But, according to veterans and participants, this year the desert rally most famous in the world presented much higher routes, distances and dangers compared to previous editions. Hundreds of kilometers of stones very technical, very high dunes and pitfalls hidden under the so-called fech fech, a soft and fine sand which apparently seems like more compact soil. All with stages which, including special tests and transfers, also keep the drivers busy 9 ore consecutive.
The pilot was fell heavily on his head at kilometer 448 of the second stage and was resuscitated by a medical team sent to the accident site before being airlifted to hospital Al-Duwadimi. He was immediately placed in a medically induced coma and transferred to hospital Riyad for emergency surgery, before being repatriated a few days later in Spain.
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