Eleven people have been injured, including two children, after a racing driver lost control of his vehicle at a rally event in Austria. 7NEWS
The seriously injured were airlifted to hospital while the remainder of the Race Cup Carinthia was cancelled.“Everyone is in shock,” Andreas Foditsch, commander of FF Patergassen, told Krone.Brisbane man was killed after crashing his car in the annual Targa Tasmania rallyThe driver and his female passenger were on board when the car crashed over an embankment on a closed section of the event at Mount Roland, in the state’s north.
The latest death takes the number of competitors to die during the Tasmanian event’s 30-year history to six.lost their lives during last year’s event, prompting an investigatory tribunal to be established.It made 23 recommendations for future tarmac rallies, including speed limits, altering stages year by year to avoid complacency and a tiered licensing system.
Twenty-one of those have been adopted by rally organisers, with two the responsibility of Motorsport Australia to implement.
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