Andy Caldecott's Fatal Crash @ Dakar Rally 2006 (Aftermath)
- 6 months ago
Andy Caldecott died in an accident during the ninth stage of the 2006 Euromilhões Lisboa-Dakar Rally.
Caldecott had won the Australian Safari four times in a row, from 2000 to 2003. He finished in sixth place in the Dakar Rally in 2005. He was not entered in the 2006 Dakar, but he had been called upon by the KTM team to replace one of its original team entries, Spain's Jordi Duran, who had been injured in December. Caldecott was in tenth place in the rally when he crashed.
Among his survivors are his wife, Tracey, and three-year-old daughter Caitlin. The family are residents of Keith, South Australia, a town on the Dukes Highway south east of Adelaide.
This was the first of three fatal accidents which happened during the 2006 Lisboa-Dakar Rally. Three days after Caldecott's death, a 10-year-old boy, Boubacar Diallo was killed during the 13th stage, in territory of Guinea. Two days later, another 12-year-old boy Mohamed N'Daw of Senegal was struck by an assistance truck during the 14th stage of the rally.
R.I.P
Caldecott had won the Australian Safari four times in a row, from 2000 to 2003. He finished in sixth place in the Dakar Rally in 2005. He was not entered in the 2006 Dakar, but he had been called upon by the KTM team to replace one of its original team entries, Spain's Jordi Duran, who had been injured in December. Caldecott was in tenth place in the rally when he crashed.
Among his survivors are his wife, Tracey, and three-year-old daughter Caitlin. The family are residents of Keith, South Australia, a town on the Dukes Highway south east of Adelaide.
This was the first of three fatal accidents which happened during the 2006 Lisboa-Dakar Rally. Three days after Caldecott's death, a 10-year-old boy, Boubacar Diallo was killed during the 13th stage, in territory of Guinea. Two days later, another 12-year-old boy Mohamed N'Daw of Senegal was struck by an assistance truck during the 14th stage of the rally.
R.I.P