Dakar Rally officers have introduced that Dutch rider Edwin Straver has handed away after succumbing to critical accidents he sustained following a fall earlier this month on the race’s penultimate stage.
Straver, 48, crashed 77 miles (124 km) into the 11th stage of the race on January 16 and was transported by helicopter to a close-by medical facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
He required resuscitation on the scene of the accident, the place it was reported it took emergency employees round 10 minutes to get his coronary heart beating. Additional examinations within the hospital revealed that he had suffered a break to one in every of his higher neck vertebrae.
He handed away on Friday morning, eight days after the accident.
Motorcyclist Edwin Straver, who was severely injured in a fall through the 11th stage of Dakar 2020, has handed away.
Everybody related to the Dakar expresses their honest condolences to Edwin's household and associates.
We’re saddened to listen to concerning the tragic information of Dakar rider Edwin Staver.
We wish to move on our condolences to his household and associates throughout this time. https://t.co/rE23egzfSw
— MotoGP™ (@MotoGP) January 24, 2020
“The complete Dakar caravan wish to prolong its honest condolences to Edwin’s household and associates,” race organizers stated in an announcement.
“We’re saddened to listen to concerning the tragic information of Dakar rider Edwin Staver,” commented the official MotoGP Twitter account. “We wish to move on our condolences to his household and associates throughout this time.”
Staver was competing in his third Dakar Rally after ending in 30th place a yr in the past, and in 49th in 2018.
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