Another sad news :(

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vyselegend
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Another sad news :(

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I have just heard on TV that a local rally in the region of Hérault (southeast France) turned to dramma this afternoon, when a car out of control ran down 11 spectators. I don't have further information about their health, but this bring back (again :evil: ) the debate about the security standarts of the discipline.

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http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14 ... r=RSS-3208

I tried to fix poor Babelfish translation... poorly :oops:

Spectator was killed and eleven people wounded of which one woman seriously. Sunday afternoon at the time of an organized car rally at Grabels (Herault), a commune located at ten kilometers of Montpellier, one learned to the gendarmes and from the helps of Herault.

The pilot of the vehicle at the head of the regional hill climb went of road at the exit of a turn, hitting the spectators massed on a hillock, explained to a correspondent of AFP on the spot one of organizing of the rally.

According to gendarmes', the spectators were "in perfectly marked out zone. The pilot lost the control of his machine towards 17h 20min and struck them ". The casualties were transported by helicopter in the hospital complex Lapeyronie of Montpellier. The seriously wounded woman was in the coma, according to the regulating doctor of Samu joint to the telephone.


For those who speak French here is original text
Une spectatrice a été tuée et onze personnes blessées dont une femme grièvement dimanche après-midi lors d'un rallye automobile organisé à Grabels (Hérault), une commune située à une dizaine de kilomètres de Montpellier, a-t-on appris auprès des gendarmes et des secours de l'Hérault.

Le pilote du véhicule en tête de la course de côte régionale a fait une sortie de route à la sortie d'un virage, fauchant les spectateurs massés sur une butte, a expliqué à un correspondant de l'AFP sur place l'une des organisatrices du rallye.

Selon les gendarmes, les spectateurs se trouvaient "en zone parfaitement balisée. Le pilote a perdu le contrôle de son engin vers 17H20 et les a percutés".

Les blessés ont été transportés en hélicoptère au centre hospitalier Lapeyronie de Montpellier. La femme grièvement blessée se trouvait dans le coma, selon le médecin régulateur du Samu joint au téléphone.