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Gassoff was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in 1977. He and his pregnant wife, Diane, had been invited to a postseason barbecue at teammate Garry Unger's 200-acre (0.81 km 2) farm near Gray Summit, Mo. At roughly 6:00 p.m., Gassoff joined several others in riding motorcycles around Unger's property.
Sometimes, the deaths came during competition or practice, while other times deaths occurred due to road accidents or other non-sports-related reasons. The list does not include athletes who died during World War I or during World War II , when international athletics competitions were largely put on pause.
Motorcycle builder and stuntman Concord, North Carolina: Butch Laswell: March 10, 1996: 37 American Motorcycle stunt rider: Honda CR500 Mesquite, Nevada: Joi Harris: August 14, 2017: 40 American Motorcycle road racer and stuntwoman Vancouver, British Columbia: Killed while filming a motorcycle stunt
She also appeared at the 2016 Rio Olympics where she was involved in a high-speed crash at the Olympic Velodrome during a training ride. Hoskins retired from cycling in 2017 and married Dennis in ...
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The man killed in a three-car crash on Midway Road in Versailles Sunday afternoon is 40-year-old Eric Klette, according to the Woodford County coroner.
The most recent fatal accident occurred in May 2021 when Jason Dupasquier was killed after a crash during qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, while the most recent fatal accident to occur in the 500 cc/MotoGP class happened in October 2011, when Marco Simoncelli was killed after he was struck by Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards during the ...
One of two motorcycle riders critically injured in a crash in Flagler County on Sunday morning died at the hospital, investigators with the Florida Highway Patrol said.. The 66-year-old woman from ...