from Waynesboro, VA
Author
John Deacon
ISBN #
0321263170
Author
John Deacon
ISBN #
9022107957
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is a retired English multi- instrumentalist and song writer, best known as the bassist for the rock band Queen. Of the ...
1962
Died:2001
He had won several Paris Dakar Rally stages. He died as a result of head injuries sustained when his BMW bike flipped, 77 miles from the town of Palmyra in Syria during the seventh stage of the Masters Rally between France and Jordan....
The dangers of the sport were highlighted in the 2000 event, run in reverse from Senegal to Egypt, when he was offered a ride for the BMW Gauloises team but crashed on the fifth day, fracturing his pelvis and wrist, as well as dislocating his shoulder.
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