JULY 5, 2007

Good news for Bridgestone man

There is good news from France regarding Nicolas Duquesne, Bridgestone's director of public relations, who was seriously injured in a helicopter crash at Magny-Cours.

Duquesne suffered serious facial injuries in the crash and was taken to hospital in Dijon. He has made considerable progress and the French doctors are now looking at sending him to a hospital nearer to his home in Brussels, Belgium.

His neice, who suffered multiple leg fractures in the crash, has now been released from hospital in Nevers.