Romain Deeger clio cup champion in belgium and porsche cup benelux driver was on the scene, here is a quick translation of what happened :
"We were just ten meters higher in the special stage. We had seen the guy post his Go Pro on the road and climb up one meter in the embankment, "
"We were all yelling at him not to stay there. When Paddon arrived, the car slipped, squatted before the left and tapped the slope. The guy was broke, crushed by the car before flying and dropping his head down on the road. A fireman present at the spectator's place did a cardiac massage. He had a pulse again for a minute and then nothing. Rescue took an incredible amount of time to arrive. We were one kilometer from the finish. They had to come in the direction of the stage, probably from the start. We stayed more than twenty minutes waiting for the ambulance. The guy had been dead for a long time even though the fireman told us he had to massage until the doctors arrived and not officially said he had died. We talked with John Kennard, the teammate of Paddon, and he could not get over the slowness of the rescue. It's just that. That said, it would not have changed anything for him. It is sad, especially for the rally because we will say that the new WRC are dangerous, that we returned to the era of group B, while this has nothing to do. It's just a a crash from a pilot because of an ice patch. "
Sad day for the sport
