Czech navigator dies in rally race car crash
Xinhua, June 14, 2015 Adjust font size:
A 63-year-old Czech navigator of a racing car died in a crash during the Rallye Orlicke hory race that held in the Czech Republic on Saturday, said Czech regional police spokeswoman Ivana Jezkova.
The driver, who is ten years younger, survived the accident and no one else was injured.
The organizers of the activity said on its website after the accident that the competition has been suspended.
The accident happened between the villages Kounov and Bystry on a third class road which was closed to traffic over the race.
The driver drove outside the road and crashed into a concrete pylon. In a side collision, the navigator suffered fatally injures. The car was damaged by fire of electrical wiring.
Jezkova said they had ordered autopsy, and they would also examine the technical condition of the vehicle and whether the track was properly prepared by the organizer. She said the accident happened on a closed road.
Jiri Svoboda, organizer of the Rallye Orlicke hory race, said that all the members of organizing committee expressed their deepest condolences to all family members, friends and acquaintances of the dead.
Saturday's race was the fifth Rallye Orlicke hory. Endit