Absurd tragedy in the motorcycling world: just two days after the death of Victor Steeman, the mother of the hapless Dutch rider also died of cardiac arrest.
Author: Michele Mazzeo
One new absurd tragedy he has just rocked the motorcycling world with a single family who suddenly face two tragic deaths. Just Two Days After Victor Steeman’s Deathwho died due to a fatal accident in the Supersport 300 World Superbike race held in Portimão last Saturday, it has now emerged that Flora van Limbeek, mother of the hapless Dutch driver, also died of cardiac arrest. at his home in Lathum.
Despite the timely arrival of help, the resuscitation attempts were useless for the woman who, therefore, at 59 years old, passed away just two days after the death of his beloved son last Tuesday. In fact, after the accident, the centaur Kawasaki was transported by helicopter and admitted to the intensive care unit of the Portuguese hospital in Faro for a serious head injury reported in the violent impact at turn 14 of the Algarve track and later found dead at a a few days.
Just before this second absurd family tragedy occurred, the son was also remembered by MotoGP who, on the occasion of the press conference of the Australian GP, reserved a moment of silence in his memory and that of the legend Phil Read with his photos that stood out in the press room at the Phillip Island circuit.
Later great gesture made immediately after the death of young Victor (five lives were saved by donating their organs) the woman evidently could not bear the despondency of what she herself had defined”an unbearable loss“. Inevitable the great pain and discouragement experienced by Willem Steeman that in a completely unexpected way 48 hours later, after losing a 22-year-old son, his wife was also taken away. and, indeed, he witnessed the sudden destruction of his whole family.