Antonio Mónaco, Luís Gnappi & Victorio Distefano's Fatal Crash @ Vuelta de Rosario 1967 (Aftermath)
Three persons lost their lives and nine others were seriously injured during the first edition of the Vuelta Ciudad de Rosario, held on a public roads course at Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on Sunday, 15 October 1967.
Marcelo Ocampo, who raced under pseudonym "Róspide", lost control of his IKA Torino 380W #32 after colliding at a speed of 200 km/h with the Ford Falcon F-100 of Carlos Menditeguy in a narrow stretch of the Ruta Nacional 178, nearly the finish line, where the timekeepers and the journalists stands were placed.
Both cars flipped and went off the road. Ocampo's Torino hit a marshal, then crashed into the stand of radio commentator which was destroyed, ending into a tree. Two people, Cesar Luís Gnappi - or, according to different accounts, Gnapi -, aged 22 from Rosario, and the journalist Antonio Mónaco, 40 from Rosario, who followed the race for the LT8 Radio of Rosario, were killed on the spot. Another spectator, Victorio Distefano, 46 from Arroyo Seco, succumbed shortly later. The first newspaper reports indicated that the number of deceased people was five, but this has not yet been confirmed.
Amongst the injured people who were taken to Rosario hospital, were two members of the same family Ángel and José Patiglia; Antonio Di Pompa, Alfredo Barboza, Gabriel Apella, Hugo Silvestre Dellaboceca and José Ribot. The driver Marcelo Ocampo was also seriously injured in the accident.
Immediately after the tragedy the race director Rafael Sierra decided to stop the event and Ricardo José M. Bonanno in a Ford F-100 was declared winner of the race, in 2h10min39sec, just in his hometown Rosario. Second was Héctor Luís Gradassi and third Rodolfo de Álzaga, both in IKA Torino 380Ws.
R.I.P
Marcelo Ocampo, who raced under pseudonym "Róspide", lost control of his IKA Torino 380W #32 after colliding at a speed of 200 km/h with the Ford Falcon F-100 of Carlos Menditeguy in a narrow stretch of the Ruta Nacional 178, nearly the finish line, where the timekeepers and the journalists stands were placed.
Both cars flipped and went off the road. Ocampo's Torino hit a marshal, then crashed into the stand of radio commentator which was destroyed, ending into a tree. Two people, Cesar Luís Gnappi - or, according to different accounts, Gnapi -, aged 22 from Rosario, and the journalist Antonio Mónaco, 40 from Rosario, who followed the race for the LT8 Radio of Rosario, were killed on the spot. Another spectator, Victorio Distefano, 46 from Arroyo Seco, succumbed shortly later. The first newspaper reports indicated that the number of deceased people was five, but this has not yet been confirmed.
Amongst the injured people who were taken to Rosario hospital, were two members of the same family Ángel and José Patiglia; Antonio Di Pompa, Alfredo Barboza, Gabriel Apella, Hugo Silvestre Dellaboceca and José Ribot. The driver Marcelo Ocampo was also seriously injured in the accident.
Immediately after the tragedy the race director Rafael Sierra decided to stop the event and Ricardo José M. Bonanno in a Ford F-100 was declared winner of the race, in 2h10min39sec, just in his hometown Rosario. Second was Héctor Luís Gradassi and third Rodolfo de Álzaga, both in IKA Torino 380Ws.
R.I.P
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