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Rally Bulgaria 2009 suspended after fatal accident
An archive photo of Rally Bulgaria 2003.
Photo: Krassimir Yuskeseliev
Organisers suspended Rally Bulgaria 2009 on its second day after an accident on July 19 2009 in which navigator Flavio Guglielmini died and driver Brian Lavio was seriously injured.
Police investigators from Pazardzhik have arrived at the rally site and pre-trial proceedings have been formally opened.
The accident happened when the car in which Guglielmini and Lavio were travelling left the track, said to be in a new section of the route, and hit a rock.
The first to report the crash was Czech driver Jan Cerny who tried to give aid to Lavio, Bulgarian news agency BTA said. The medical team arriving on the site of the crash confirmed that Guglielmini was dead.
The fatal accident occurred in a narrow part of the road where the terrain does not make it necessary to have safety guards; however, it came out that the place was not covered by any cellular phone system or GPS, BTA said.
Bulgarian news agency Focus, quoting the rally’s website, said that all actions taken after the accident were in compliance with FIA rules.
Lavio was examined in hospital in Velingrad. He was said to be in stable condition, with bruising of the thorax and abdomen and an injured collar bone and knee. Lavio would be transferred to Sofia’s Pirogov emergency hospital for tests, Focus said.
This is the 40th year in which the rally was held.
Police investigators from Pazardzhik have arrived at the rally site and pre-trial proceedings have been formally opened.
The accident happened when the car in which Guglielmini and Lavio were travelling left the track, said to be in a new section of the route, and hit a rock.
The first to report the crash was Czech driver Jan Cerny who tried to give aid to Lavio, Bulgarian news agency BTA said. The medical team arriving on the site of the crash confirmed that Guglielmini was dead.
The fatal accident occurred in a narrow part of the road where the terrain does not make it necessary to have safety guards; however, it came out that the place was not covered by any cellular phone system or GPS, BTA said.
Bulgarian news agency Focus, quoting the rally’s website, said that all actions taken after the accident were in compliance with FIA rules.
Lavio was examined in hospital in Velingrad. He was said to be in stable condition, with bruising of the thorax and abdomen and an injured collar bone and knee. Lavio would be transferred to Sofia’s Pirogov emergency hospital for tests, Focus said.
This is the 40th year in which the rally was held.
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Lol "Drive.." and that other loser nathz have been listening too much to their broads...
Reminds me of a politician in the States, I think he was the mayer of NY.
When asked: Do you have a comment about the latest murder on the subway? He answered: I've long maintained that we should have stronger gun laws!
To which the reporter said: But Mr. Mayor, he was stabbed to death;)
People will find any facts to justify their feelings/hate.
After 4 years in this country and married to a Bulgarian all I can say is 'Drives with helmet' took the words right out of my mouth, and I agree with him 100%.
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To "Drive with helmet". I see more clearly your position now, from your later posting. I can understand to some extent your overall frustration, having experienced the same sorts of situations here. "Me, me" is undoubtedly true of some Bulgarians, but I think this is slowly improving everywhere. The SAPARD etc business is, I agree, just a symptomatic excuse. But I don't agree that you should "get the hell out" of here – there's a load of good, positive stuff going on, I reckon. (See my posting to the other story for more!)
"Me" your right, most of what I wrote didn't have much to do with the piece itself, my point is that even in a professional scheduled race, that the Bulgarian officals couldn't even provide a rock free track. It just goes to show the lack of caring about anything in this country. This is sad that someone had to lose their life to show that when it comes to Bulgaria, they will save any money they can and take whatever they can no matter who it hurts. The PM would steal his own Mothers monthly 100lv penion if he could. [...]
Read the full comment This country is a land of me, me, me and screw everyone else. I know bringing politics into this forum may seem odd, it's just typical. I'm so tired of hearing from Bulgarians officals and Bulgarian's themselves that "well if we got the sapard funding we woundn't have had this problem" we if you followed the rules and did what you were supposed to and not give the contract to you brother or brother in law to do the work then maybe outsiders like myself would not see the Irony in all of this, I'm saying get your act together Bulgaria, your ancestors would be turning over in their graves if they saw what was going on in today's Bulgaria, corruption at the highest level's, no accountability what so ever. I'm taking my Bulgarian girlfriend and getting the hell out before this place turns into if not already a bananna republic. As I also said in privious post, Bulgaria is a great country, it's the people in power that area allowing it to fall apart. You have substandard education, medicine, infastructure. You as Bulgarians should be really pisseed, I know I am and only a vistor in this county. YES I KNOW THE DAM ROCK WAS AN ACCIDENT, I get it but it is still so typical of BG. When it comes to luck, this country only seems to have BAD LUCK, from it's leader's to the crappy healthcare, to everything. Just ask the people, if they are honest they will tell you, the best thing they can do is get the hell out of here.
My sympathies to the family of Mr Gugelmini, and the Mr Lavio
Many rallies around the world are in areas with poor cellular phone coverage. I don't understand the reference to GPS, because the satellites are in orbit around the world. All rallies have a tracking system of some sort to locate cars.
uh, "drive with helmet," i don't know if you actually read the article before commenting on it, because your comment is 100% irrelevant in this case...
Did "Drive with helmet" observe that this was a professional rally, under international rules? What he says may well be true about normal civilian traffic, but this is totally different. The sad thing id that this area was "not covered by any cellular phone system or GPS, BTA said."
Phil.
I'm not surprised that someone got killed in this race, hell driving anywhere in Bulgaria is danger. People don't pay attention to the lines on the road, they have to speed just to get to where there going 10 mins earlier and Bulgarian drivers are not exactly very good anyway and the police, HA, they don't enforce anything that 20lv won't get you out of, if the police started to use there power and give fines and take points from someone's license to drive maybe it would help. I never saw a one way street in Sofia that was only [...]
Read the full comment used one way and I've done this in taxi's with a cop on the other side. UNREAL! And People PLEASE stop blaming people with BMW's or other newer, nicer or faster cars, it's not them that cause the problem, it's everyone that don't obey the simply traffic rules in the city. It's not so difficult, TRY IT