Het zit niet mee,
maar er is afgelopen weekend een kiter in frankrijk op vreselijke wijze overleden...

RIP

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Le kitesurfeur, un étudiant de 25 ans, s'entraînait dans la baie Saint-Jean-de-Luz au Pays-basque vers midi et demi ce dimanche. Une bourrasque a soufflé dans sa voile et l'a projeté contre la jetée. Inconscient, le jeune homme aurait pousuivi sa course folle.
The kitesurfer, a 25 year old student was training in the Saint-Jean-de-Luz bay (basque region) arround 12H30 this sunday. A gust hit his kite and threw him into a pier. He went uncouncious while the kite kept going.

Selon les tèmoins, il aurait heurté le mur du Grand Hôtel en bordure de plage. Il serait passé par dessus le bâtiment et aurait percuté un immeuble de l'autre côté du boulevard. Sa voile serait restée accrochée au toit. Le kitesurfeur serait alors tombé de 7 étages. Le SAMU était sur place mais n'a pu que constater le décès du jeune homme. La victime serait un étudiant d'une autre région. Au Pays-Basque, le dernier accident mortel de kitesurf avait déjà frappé un étudiant. C'était il y a deux ans, à Bidart.
According to witnesses, he hit the wall of the Grand Hôtel on the sea front. He was lofted above the building and hit another building on the other side to of main road. His kite to stuck on the roof of the building. The kitesurfer fell 7 floors. The emergency services were already on site but could only see that he was dead. The kitesurfer was student in another region. In the basque region, the last accident causing a death involved a student two years ago at Bidart.

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SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ, France, Nov 8, 2010 (AFP) - A 24-year-old
kitesurfer crashed to his death when wind swept him up and hurled
him over a nine-storey building at a seaside resort in France,
witnesses said.
"He was overwhelmed by the force of the wind while he was
kitesurfing" by a central beach in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a resort town
on France's southwestern Atlantic coast, an official in the rescue
services told AFP on Sunday.
"He crashed into a nine-storey building and then went over it,"
the official added. "Afterwards he was carried even higher and then
lost force in the sail and crashed down."
Kitesurfers harness themselves to a high sail to catch the wind
and pull them along at high speed with their feet on a surfboard.
Reports said the weather was wet and windy on Sunday afternoon when
the accident happened.
Witnesses told AFP on Monday that the wind first tossed the man
against a three-metre (10-foot) sea wall next to the beach before
pulling him higher.
A porter at the Grand Hotel just across the road from the beach
said the surfer shot into the air at "incredible speed", was hurled
over the top of a nearby residential building and fell 15 metres to
the ground behind it.
"A doctor who was attending a seminar at our hotel was the first
on the scene. He thought the young man must have been killed by
hitting the sea wall first," the porter said.
He added that there were marks on the beach indicating the
surfer had tried to brake in the sand.
A similar accident struck in April 2009 in nearby Bidart, where
a 23-year-old man died from his injuries after being hurled by his
kitesurfing sail into a car park.


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