Richards in helicopter accident
Published Date:
16 September 2007
JUST hours after former Subaru ace Colin McRae was killed in a crash, Dave Richards, the boss of the Banbury-based rally team, has himself been involved in a helicopter accident.
Mr Richards and his wife Karen, who live in Radway, were flying back from the Beligan Grand Prix in Spa this afternoon (Sunday) when their aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Essex. Both walked from the crash unscathed.
Mr McRae, his five-year-old son Johnny, and his friends, six-year-old Ben Porcelli and Graeme Duncan, 37, were killed after the helicopter in which they were travelling crashed in Lanarkshire at 4.10pm on Saturday.
The 39-year-old had won the World Rally Championship for Subaru in 1995.
Mr Richards, chief executive of Prodrive, which manages the Subaru team, had received a call to tell him about Mr McRae's death while travelling to the Belgium Grand Prix in Spa.
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Last Updated:
18 September 2007 12:35 PM
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Location:
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