Rally is abandoned after fatal crash

[Wizzo]

The Gumball 3000 rally was called off last night after a fatal crash involving one of the competing cars. The Porsche 997 Turbo of Nick Morley and Matthew McConville collided with a Volkswagen Golf in the Republic of Macedonia. The two men were arrested on the border with Albania in another vehicle after apparently leaving the scene of the accident. The male in the VW was killed and his wife was critically injured.

Maximillion Cooper, the organiser of the event, said that he felt the rally should be stopped as a mark of respect to the man who died. “We are very saddened by what has happened and I feel that it would be wrong to continue. On behalf of everyone at Gumball I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the man’s family. We are doing everything we can for them.”

A police spokesman said that “both Britons are testifying before an investigative magistrate in the town of Struga, where a decision will be made whether to hold them in custody or not.”

Although the circumstances of the crash are not yet clear, a spokesperson for the rally commented that “the Golf pulled out from a stop sign and Mr Morley and McConville tried to swerve around it but clipped the side of the car”.

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[davewilson]

It was a sad end to the Rally Wizard.It has been going for a while and this is the first fatal accident involving a competing car.