All,
The following was received from the Hunt's Wednesday evening in the US.
The car they refer to belongs to a driver from the US. This car was
doing the London to Peking Rally, not going Around the World.
Rally updates and daily results can be found at
http://www.carnetnews.co.uk/results/main.html
Bob Brown
Subject:
dispatch no2
Date:
Wed, 3 May 2000 22:32:01 +0100
From:
"Ann Hunt" <ann@hunt.sol.co.uk>
To:
"Alan Gibson" <Alan.Gibson@technologist.com>, "Robert Brown"
<rcbrown@lucent.com>
Hi Alan,
Spectacular scenery. A sobering day, but at least we are still in the rally.
Peter wants to say a few words.
Late in the afternoon, we came across an accident which had occured to our
"un-official " Team Healey collegues
- David Stonely & Dennis Pomfret. Apparently, in overtaking a slower entrant,
Dennis lost control of the Healey
and had launched themselves backwards, at speed, out over a steep wooded bank
and had landed some 100 ft
out from the verge and down some 50 ft.
This was witnessed by the occupants of the other car as it spun in front of them
- fortunately both of them walked,
or crawled, out of the Healey with cuts, bruises and shock. Ann attended to
their cuts and I went down the slope
with great difficulty as it was so steep, to look at the car. It had taken some
small trees out and had come to rest
amoungst rocks on its wheels or what was left of them.
It would appear that the Healey is a write-off and the fact that both of them
came out alive is due credit to the
roll-bar and the overall strength of the Healey. We had to wait 40 minutes
before some of the CRA organisers
arrived on the scene at which stage we left.
This incident has made us consider as to how competitive we should be in these
timed stages, at the
moment, the main priority now is to keep ourselves and XRU 100 in one piece with
the overall view of getting
around the world - as to how many penalty points we accrue by being late does
not really feature.
Alan, Bob - can you put this on our website and let all our supporters and
helpers know what has happened.
Many thanks
Peter.
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