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==Fatal accidents== In the history of the circuit, several fatal accidents have occurred. {| class="wikitable" ! Name !! Date !! Description |- | Hendrik Dik || 22 March 1952 || Dik's Peugeot did not stop after completing the stage, but went straight on through some fences. The car then hit a small hill and rolled. It was later determined that Dik had suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel of his car. |- | Wim Gerlach || 10 June 1957 || Wim Gerlach rolled his Porsche during a sportscar race at Zandvoort on 9 June 1957. The car was not equipped with a rollcage and Gerlach, who was not wearing seatbelts, had his head crushed between the door of the car and the earth bank. The corner where the accident occurred was later named the Gerlachbocht. |- | {{ill|Werner Engel|fr}} || 30 April 1958 || Crashed his [[Mercedes-Benz 300 SL]] cabriolet during the final stage of that year's [[Tulip Rally]]. As was usual at the time, the Tulip Rally's final stage was run as a race at Zandvoort but anti-clockwise so as to counter unfair advantages for drivers with racing experience of the track. Engel's car crashed and overturned on the back-stretch of the track, on the short straight leading away from Tunnel-Oost (in the direction of Scheivlak corner) and came to rest upside down on the track. |- | [[Ian Raby]] || 7 November 1967 || Died of injuries sustained on the 5th lap of the European Formula 2 Zandvoort round. |- | Chris Lambert<!-- please do not link this to [[Chris Lambert]] (which is a disambiguation page) or [[Chris Lambert (racing driver)]], which redirects back to here --> || 28 July 1968 || Lambert was killed after he collided with [[Clay Regazzoni]] during the Dutch round of the European Formula 2 Championship, launching Lambert's Brabham BT23C over the guardrail and onto the pedestrian path below.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://8w.forix.com/nl73-nl70.html |title=8W โ When? โ 1973 Dutch GP |publisher=Forix |access-date=11 May 2012}}</ref> |- | [[Piers Courage]] || 21 June 1970 || The suspension or steering in Courage's car broke on the flat out 'Tunnel Oost' section. Instead of rounding the bend, the car went straight on into the steep dunes, disintegrated on impact and caught fire as the engine broke away from the monocoque; automatic fuel-sealing equipment was not yet being used. During the impact one of the front wheels broke loose and hit Courage's head, taking off his helmet (wheel and helmet came rolling out of the cloud of dust simultaneously). It is assumed that Courage was killed instantly (or at least severely wounded and knocked unconscious) when the wheel hit him, rather than dying in the subsequent fire, as the monocoque was upright (not upside down, as is often stated by those who confuse the Courage and Williamson accidents) when it came to rest and did not seem to trap its driver in any way. |- | [[Roger Williamson]] || 29 July 1973 || Williamson lost control of his car due to a suspected tyre failure during the [[1973 Dutch Grand Prix]] and crashed into the barriers, spun upside-down and caught fire. [[David Purley]] stopped his own race and tried unsuccessfully to save Williamson. The circuit was poorly prepared and not enough fire extinguishers were on hand. |- | [[Rob Slotemaker]] || 29 July 1979 || Slotemaker was killed when he crashed his [[Chevrolet Camaro (second generation)|Chevrolet Camaro]] during the "Trophy of the Dunes" touring car race. His car spun on a patch of oil and collided with a course car parked alongside the track. Despite the relatively minor force of the accident, he suffered a broken neck and died instantly. A section of the circuit, the left-hander after Hunserug, is named in his memory.<ref>The Straits Times, 18 September 1979, p.26</ref> |- | [[Hans-Georg Bรผrger]] || 20 July 1980 || Crashed in his Tiga F280-BMW at Scheivlak corner during the warm-up for the European Formula 2 Zandvoort round. He succumbed to his head injuries in hospital two days later. |- | Alain Vinckx || 29 May 1987 || During a World Record Day event, Vinckx was killed when he attempted a stunt in which he drove a [[Chevrolet Camaro (third generation)|Chevrolet Camaro]] through four buses placed back to back. The second bus was positioned too low, the roof of the car was cut from it by the roof of the bus. Vinckx was unable to duck away from danger and was decapitated. |- | Oliver Heimann || 30 March 1991 || Heimann was unable to avoid the car of another competitor which had come to a standstill. Heimann broke his neck in the accident; he died in a hospital in [[Haarlem]], about one hour after the crash. |- | Henk Schoorstra || 29 July 2010 || After colliding with another car, Henk Schoorstra's single-seater went out of control and crashed into the guard rail between Hunserug and the Rob Slotemaker bend. The driver was able to drive the car into the run-off area but it caught fire and Schoorstra was killed at the scene. |- | David Ferrer || 2 September 2017 || During the Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort Ferrer crashed with his March 701 from 1970. The accident happened in the Arie Luyendijkbocht where he lost control of the car and crashed into the barriers. Marshalls got him out of the car and Ferrer was brought to a hospital, where he later died due to his injuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motorsport.com/vintage/news/driver-dies-after-historic-f1-crash-at-zandvoort-950355/|title=Driver dies after Historic F1 crash at Zandvoort|website=motorsport.com|access-date=11 September 2017}}</ref> |}
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