Ange Baldoni's Fatal Crash @ Monaco 1962
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At the start of the Grand Prix de Monaco held on Sunday, 03 June 1962, the throttle of Richie Ginther's BRM P48/57 stuck open and he could not slow down his car at the Gazomètre Hairpin, crashing into the private Lotuses of Maurice Trintignant and Innes Ireland, while Dan Gurney's Porsche and Trevor Taylor's factory Lotus were also involved.
The right-rear wheel flew from Ginther's car and struck the head of a marshal, named Ange Baldoni, the Automobile Club’s commissaire-contrôleur. He was very seriously injured and taken to the Princess Grace Polyclinic of Monaco. After being given first aid, he was transferred to the Saint Roch hospital in Nice where, in spite of a delicate operation, he succumbed nine days later, on Tuesday, 12 June 1962 morning. He was 52-year-old and worked as the assistant manager of the Monaco Bus Company depot.
R.I.P
The right-rear wheel flew from Ginther's car and struck the head of a marshal, named Ange Baldoni, the Automobile Club’s commissaire-contrôleur. He was very seriously injured and taken to the Princess Grace Polyclinic of Monaco. After being given first aid, he was transferred to the Saint Roch hospital in Nice where, in spite of a delicate operation, he succumbed nine days later, on Tuesday, 12 June 1962 morning. He was 52-year-old and worked as the assistant manager of the Monaco Bus Company depot.
R.I.P