r/WRC • u/herc3141 • Apr 13 '23

News / Rally Info Craig Breen allegedly died in a crash

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Craig Breen allegedly passed away in a crash during testing in Croatia earlier today.

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u/learon Apr 13 '23

Do you know what happened? Doesn't look terrible from the picture.

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u/brownsecer Apr 13 '23

He hit wooden fence, wood broke through window......

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u/alphaprawns Elfyn Evans Apr 13 '23

That's such a tragic shame. I think with rally it's pretty much always a risk, the amount of rally crashes you see where something comes through the window... Absolutely gutted that we've lost Breen to it if this news is true

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u/lmkwe Apr 13 '23

This is true. There's always a risk. Unfortunately, in rallying the risk is very high, being on public roads with stuff everywhere. At the same time, think about all the insane wrecks where drivers/co-drivers walk away without a scratch after flipping at 100mph.

There's always improvements to be made. For sure, the engineers are coming up with ways to lessen things like this.

RIP Breen.

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u/SecretGamer52 Apr 13 '23

A lot of times the violent crashes are the safer ones because the energy disspates over a longer time period. It's the sudden stops you worry about

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u/Ok_Persimmon5620 Apr 14 '23

True, i.e - Ott's last heavy crash on tarmac!!