Track marshal dead after Canadian Grand Prix 2013

The 38-year-old man was crushed by a crane that was being used to remove Esteban Gutierrez’s stricken Sauber from the track. The fatal accident happened when the marshal tripped as he was picking up his radio and was unseen by the crane driver, who continued driving. He was airlifted to hospital but pronounced dead late on Sunday evening. Sunday’s race winner Sebastian Vettel was quick to the lead the tributes, saying: “It is very, very sad to hear that a marshal tragically lost his life in Canada.He is the third marshal to have died since 2000 after fatal accidents at the Italian Grand Prix in 2000 and the Australian Grand Prix in 2001, although both of those incidents involved wheels which had come loose.Among those to pay tribute to the marshal last night was Ferrari's double world champion Fernando Alonso who had just finished the race in second place. "The worker was helping to recover a car which had stopped during the race. The recovery vehicle had lifted the car to return it to the pits and while doing this the worker dropped his radio and attempted to pick it up. As he did this, he stumbled and was hit and run over by the recovery vehicle," the FIA, the governing body of F1, said in a statement.The track worker, a 10 year veteran, was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 6:02 PM local time before he was to be operated on.