The acccidents in rally are different compared to road accidents, especcially because of the safety equipment. During this training organizers of the rally introduced to the emergency and rescue crews the saftey equipment of the drivers and cars and showed different footages from accidents. Special rescue technics were introduced and besides theoretical part there were lot of things done in practise. The participating crews had a chance to lift the injured drivers out from the car and they used their own rescue equipment to cut the drivers out from the car.
All this can happen during the rally and it was a valuable lesson for all the rescue and emergency crews. As auto24 Rally Estonia is for the first time a round of FIA ERC more helicopters are involved. Due to that one part of the training was a practical training about using helicopter in rescue operation after the rally accident.
FIA European Rally Championship is the longest running rally championship, celebrating 62 years in 2014. Starting from 2013, the promotor of the series is Eurosport Events who made a 10-year-agreement with the FIA.
In addition to being a part of ERC in 2014, auto24 Rally Estonia is also a round of FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship and Estonian Autorally Championship. auto24 Rally Estonia is held on 17-19th of July.
Video review of the security training:
