Ill while behind the wheel, driver dies at the Rally: the car doesn't crash thanks to the intervention of the navigator

Drama at Rally Team 971 which took place yesterday between Asti and Turin .

The pilot Renato Paganini died at the Molinette hospital in Turin after being taken ill while he was behind the wheel.

The man had a sudden cardiac arrest during the first special stage of Albugnano. And to avoid the tragedy within the tragedy was his co-driver , Elena Bertolli, who managed to lift his foot off the accelerator and take control of the car, preventing the car from colliding with the spectators.

Immediate help from the doctors , who intervened by helicopter.

Transported to the hospital, Paganini died.

(Unioneonline/vl)