1999 - Le Mans - Thierry Bousten's big accident

The #2 Toyota GT One is off in the tyre wall at the Dunlop Curve (at 3:09 this morning) with Thierry Boutsen at the wheel.

The Safety Cars are coming out as a result of the #2 Toyota off. The front end is heavily damaged as is the tyre wall and Boutsen is still trapped in the car. He was OK but obviously needed to be extracted carefully.

03:29 - Boutsen is finally freed from the wreckage and reports are filtering through that suggest that the #66 Estoril Racing Communication Porsche driver didn't see the Toyota and turned in on Boutsen, sending him off.

Apparently Boutsen was complaining of lower back pain and pains in his shoulder so he preferred not to move and waited for the medical personnel to appear which is why it took so long to extract him. He is now being stretchered away by the extraction crew and placed in ambulance. No doubt he will be thoroughly checked over before he can go anywhere. The ambulance is leaving very slowly too.

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[up82]

@Fastbikkel I just spoke to Boutsen 20 minutes back :) The interview will be up on F1Pulse.com later today

[Fastbikkel]

I liked Thierry as a racing driver, i only realy know him from Formula 1.

[futuris81]

In fact, this was quite a heavy shunt, since Thierry Boutsen bruised his vertebrae and it took more then a year, before he fully recovered!