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Man dies 24 years after crash

2010-09-03 11:34
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Jean-Michel Baron (File)
La Rochelle - Motorcyclist Jean-Michel Baron died on Thursday at the age of 56, after 24 years spent in a vegetative state following a crash in the Dakar Rally.

Baron was 31 when he fell heavily during his second Paris-Dakar, after which he spent several months in hospital before being taken home, where he lived for 23 years "in a vegetative state", his wife Jocelyne said.

"Motorbikes were his life," she said of Baron, the French 250 Inter motorcross champion in 1980 who finished 20th riding a Honda in his first Paris-Dakar in 1985.
 

 

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