SALFORD RED
16-09-2007, 09:39 PM
Rally boss in helicopter escape
Subaru rally team chief Dave Richards and his wife survived unhurt when their helicopter crash-landed in Essex.
Police said Mr Richards, 55, and his wife, Karen, "walked out of the wreckage" near North Weald Airfield and were treated for shock by paramedics.
Mr Richards, awarded a CBE in 2005, is chief executive of Prodrive.
It runs the Subaru World Rally Team that Colin McRae, who died in a helicopter crash on Saturday, won his world rally title with in 1995.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6997784.stm
Subaru rally team chief Dave Richards and his wife survived unhurt when their helicopter crash-landed in Essex.
Police said Mr Richards, 55, and his wife, Karen, "walked out of the wreckage" near North Weald Airfield and were treated for shock by paramedics.
Mr Richards, awarded a CBE in 2005, is chief executive of Prodrive.
It runs the Subaru World Rally Team that Colin McRae, who died in a helicopter crash on Saturday, won his world rally title with in 1995.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6997784.stm