5 October 2008
One of the stars of South African rally driving, Paul Pfeiffer, died in hospital on Saturday after his car landed in a small dam during the blue crane rally near Caledon.
The motorsport website Rallystar reported he had been driving with his navigator Cindi Harding, when their car left the road and landed upside down in a dam.
Spectators immediately went in to rescue the team and pulled Harding out of the car.
Evidently Pfeiffer managed to get out by himself but rescuers searched frantically inside the car unaware of this.
When he was found in the water outside the car people tried to resuscitate him. After paramedics battled to stabilise him, he was flown to the Caledon Mediclinic where he died.
The website said it was "a sad day for motorsport and we are all currently in shock". Harding is being treated in hospital for shock.
Pfeiffer's mother's family owns Rainbow Chickens and his father was a Swiss banker, according to Argus motor racing correspondent Adrian Pheiffer. He had just bought a new car especially built for rally-driving.
Meanwhile two groups of hikers lost their way on Table Mountain and Devils Peak on Saturday.
Wilderness Mountain and Rescue spokesperson Dion Tromp said they had helped one group of four who got lost near Kloof Corner Ridge on foot.
But an Oryx helicopter had to be flown in to rescue the other group of five who were stuck on a ledge on Devil's Peak.
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