Spanish Laia Sanz (Astara) suffered this Thursday an accident on stage 5 dakar rally Although his car was shattered, he escaped unharmed.

The athlete from Corbera de Llobregat, who turned 37 in December, suffered a setback on the 28th kilometer of the second back-to-back cycle of Dakar in Ha’il (Saudi Arabia).

As the organization explains, The liner was rolled and destroyed several times.

“Fortunately, the Spanish woman and her co-pilot, Italian Maurizio Gerini, escaped injury,” the organizers said.

Sanz started from the twentieth place at the start of this special after finishing Wednesday’s stage at the same place.

He was 7:53:51 behind leader Qatar in the general classification. Nasser Al-Attiyah (Toyota).

Laia Sanz was driving to her second Dakar after eleven people on motorcycles.