Two Killed In Dakar Rally, Peru

Two people have been in killed in Peru in ahead-on collision involving
a support vehicle for the Dakar rally. The victims were travelling in
a taxi which hit a Land Rover from a British team of injured army
veterans. Seven people-three of them Britons-were injured in the
crash. Peruvian police are investigating the circumstances of the
accident. The Dakar is billed as the world's toughest race. It has
been staged in South America since 2009. Three members of the British
team, Race2Recovery, were flown to hospital in Lima. The men were
named as Justin Birchall, 40, a team driver and civilian volunteer
from Burnley, Lancashire, whose vehicle retired earlier in the race,
former Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer and Gulf War and
Falklands war veteran Lee Townsend, a team mechanic, from Yate near
Bristol, and retired Army Major John Winskill, 42,the team logistics
expert, who is from Durrington, near Salisbury, Wiltshire. Four
passengers from the taxi are also being treated in hospital. Another
taxi overturned while swerving to avoid the crash wreckage, but no-one
in this vehicle is thought to have been seriously hurt.
BBC