Pedrosa crashes out of test in Qatar | MotoGP
- From: TRS Media | Published: March 3rd, 2009 - 1:29 am
Pedrosa was stretchered away from the scene of the crash and transferred to the circuit hospital where initial scans showed no immediate signs of broken bones but revealed a possible crack to a bone in his left hand. He has also reopened an injury in his left knee which he hurt at Phillip Island late last season and had surgery on in December.
The rider will need to wait 24 hours for another scan to confirm 100% whether or not he has sustained any fractures. Those checks will take place in Barcelona, as Pedrosa will fly home from Qatar on Tuesday.
Update:
Pedrosa fractures not expected by Clinica Mobile
Doctor Claudio Macchiagodena’s initial examination on Spaniard reveals only bruising and swelling. One of the first to attend to Dani Pedrosa after his crash in Qatar, Clinica Mobile’s Doctor Claudio Macchiagodena has eased fears over the Spaniard’s condition. The experienced paddock medic performed the initial examination on Pedrosa’s left hand and knee, and his early findings were limited to bruising and swelling.
“Pedrosa’s crash has left him with trauma in the left knee and arm, of which the knee damage seems to be the most serious because of the previous injury (suffered at Phillip Island last year and subsequently treated with surgery). There is no evidence of any fracture and it will simply require re-bandaging,” said Macchiagodena on Monday night.
“There was a suspicion that perhaps a bone had been fractured in his hand, but the first examination has ruled this out. We will have to wait for 24 hours for the swelling to go down and be able to definitively eliminate the possibility of muscle or bone damage.”
