Dakar Rally Indian rider suffered head injury
Hero Motorsport
Indian rider CS Santosh is in an induced coma in a Riyadh hospital after an accident in the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally.
A year ago, another rider, Paulo Goncalves, also from Hero MotoSports team, died during the race.
Team manager Waffi Fischer has said that Santosh is in a stable condition, despite being in an induced coma.
In an unfortunate incident, @cs_santosh22 suffered a crash in Stage 4 of #Dakar2021 today. He has been taken to a hospital in Riyadh. In the initial assessment, he seems stable.
Join us in wishing him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/ePbtRIsBcT
? Hero MotoSports (@hero_motosports) January 6, 2021
This was Santosh’s seventh Dakar Rally, and he suffered the fall at the kilometre 135 mark on a gravel surface at around 11:45 local time.
Having suffered a serious head trauma, the doctors decided to place him in an induced coma to avoid risking further damage.
On Thursday, the 37-year-old will undergo a scan to ascertain the extent of his injuries.
