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A co-driver participating within the Jim Clark rally in Scotland has died after a crash on Saturday morning.
Dai Roberts, 39, was pronounced lifeless on the scene close to Duns within the Scottish Borders.
The motive force, James Williams, 27, was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with severe however not life-threatening accidents.
The rally’s organisers, the Jim Clark Memorial Motor Membership, stated the rest of the occasion and Sunday’s Jim Clark Reivers rally had been cancelled.
The Jim Clark rally is an annual closed-road motor sport race named after the late Formulation One champion Jim Clark, who was killed in an accident in Hockenheim, Germany, in 1968.
Supt Vincent Fisher, of Police Scotland, stated: “Our ideas are with the household of the person who has died and inquiries are ongoing to ascertain the total circumstances.”
Motorsport UK, the game’s governing physique, stated it “sends its condolences to Dai’s household and buddies, the Jim Clark rally, Jim Clark Memorial Motor Membership and members of the motor sport group”.
“Motorsport UK has initiated a full investigation into the circumstances of the incident and can work intently with the Jim Clark rally occasion organisers and Jim Clark Memorial Motor Membership and can cooperate with the related authorities.”
Roberts, from Carmarthen, survived a crash in 2014 which killed a 20-year-old driver, Timothy Cathcart, whereas participating within the Ulster rally in Belfast.
Roberts’ youthful brother, Gareth, died aged 24 after a racing accident in Palermo, southern Italy, in 2012.
About 260 opponents had been anticipated to compete on the occasion within the Scottish Borders over the weekend.
In a staff assertion, James Williams Rallying stated: “It’s with a heavy coronary heart, now we have to share this unhappy information.
“The motor sport group is deeply saddened to study of the passing of our beloved Dai Roberts. Our ideas and prayers are with the Roberts household at this troublesome time.”
In 2014, three spectators had been killed and 6 extra had been injured on the occasion when two vehicles misplaced management and veered into viewing areas.
The rally returned 5 years later in 2019 after “rigorous steps” had been taken to make sure security.
First held in 1970, the closed-road occasion is a spherical of the Probite British rally championship, Asset Alliance Group Scottish rally championship and Protyre nationwide asphalt championship.
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