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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. A photographer has been taken to hospital following a crash during the practice run at the Rally of Sweden race, the only winter event on the World Rally Championship calendar.
The accident happened on Thursday morning near the town of Raada when the Polish driver Michal Solowow lost control of his car in a bend and flew off the road, striking the photographer.
For further information, please contact: “The situation with the injured party is stable,” the race director, Christina Lundkvist-Wiklund, told state broadcaster SVT, adding that the injured man had been taken to the hospital in nearby Karlstad.
Attending the event as a spectator, the Montreal Canadiens hockey player Magnus Nygren witnessed the accident.
“The crowd stood on the driver’s left side, but the photographer was on his right. So when Solowow spun, he hit the photographer with the back of the car, and he flew a fair distance out into the forest,” Nygren told the Expressen newspaper.