HE Ibizan pilot Toni Vingut had a serious accident in his quad during the fifth stage of the race. Dhaka RallyR. It’s a debated issue in Saudi Arabia. As revealed to Diario de Ibiza from Formentera i Eivissa Motoclub, Vingut had to be transported to a Riyadh hospital after crashing his vehicle from the top of a dune in the Saudi desert.

According to preliminary information, the Sant Antoni pilot He would suffer fractures to the ulna and radius of his arm, as well as fractures to his sacrum and six ribs.. The serious accident also left him with open wounds, although he was conscious while being evacuated by helicopter.

Ibiza was taken to hospital having surgery and undergoing medical tests.

Toni Vingut ranked sixth in the four-piece category of the Dakar Rally after the first four stages. This was his fifth participation in the prestigious motor event..

Iván Solvas, his mechanic and also taking part in the Dakar, was able to be with the Ibizan before he was evacuated to the Saudi capital.

“I was able to be with him, they gave him good medicine and he was half zombie. He could talk okay but it hurt everywhere. There was a 7-8 meter dune cut and I didn’t think he was cut.” He was going fast and succeeded. He ate everything, made an ‘airplane’ and literally flew.Oni was feeling bad but alive “And he was already busy talking about nonsense like he fell again, I ruined him etc,” Solvas said in an audio recording available to this newspaper.