{"id":23275,"date":"2022-06-11T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23275"},"modified":"2022-06-11T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:22:53","slug":"father-and-son-killed-in-latest-tragedy-as-isle-of-man-tt-death-toll-rises-to-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/11\/father-and-son-killed-in-latest-tragedy-as-isle-of-man-tt-death-toll-rises-to-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son killed in latest tragedy as Isle of Man TT death toll rises to five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">The father and son team Roger and Bradley Stockton have been killed while racing at the\u00a0Isle of Man TT, organisers have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">Roger, the 56-year-old driver, and the 21-year-old passenger, Bradley, who were from Crewe, died following an incident at Ago\u2019s Leap on the final lap of the second sidecar race, taking the number of rider deaths at this year\u2019s event to five.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sign-in-gate\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">It was Roger\u2019s 20th race in his 11th TT appearance, while Bradley was in his second race in his maiden TT. They had finished eighth in the first sidecar race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"d6491c75-ce4e-4e14-a4c0-bd7b6fc37bb2\" class=\" dcr-1mfia18\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"css-z0y4zp\" data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-3 | 3\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"\">\n<div class=\"dcr-s7oxzu\">\n<div class=\"css-12vmh7p\"><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-q4dzvk\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2342dbaa963366feadc4ab8d9c5d61a2e3f3b9a5\/17_109_4921_2953\/master\/4921.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=072339200b502ff081b77b360ba0def2\" alt=\"Crowds watching the TT races in the Isle of Man in 2015.\" width=\"4921\" height=\"2953\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-1d91meq\">\n<div class=\"dcr-m4qltb\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-vhdaws\">\n<div class=\"dcr-dobi02\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">Roger made his TT debut in 2000 and competed regularly until 2008 before returning in 2010, 2017, and for this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">Speaking earlier in the year, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve retired a few times before but always come back for my love of the sport. Going around the course with my own flesh and blood will be incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">\u201cThe Isle of Man TT Races pass on their deepest sympathy to Roger and Bradley\u2019s families, loved ones, and friends,\u201d organisers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">The deaths follow that of C\u00e9sar Chanal, who died on Saturday in a crash during a sidecar race, where mistaken identity meant it was initially announced it was his passenger Olivier Lavorel who had been killed. Organisers released a statement apologising for their error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1u6kyh0\">The Welsh rider Mark Purslow was killed in qualifying last week and Northern Ireland\u2019s Davy Morgan died after an accident in Monday\u2019s Supersport Race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father and son team Roger and Bradley Stockton have been killed while racing at the\u00a0Isle of Man TT, organisers have confirmed. Roger, the 56-year-old driver, and the 21-year-old passenger, Bradley, who were from Crewe, died following an incident at Ago\u2019s Leap on the final lap of the second sidecar race, taking the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,3295],"tags":[5144,8193,7234,10418,5241,7583,6738,6225,2702,6449,9515,5712,6220,2695,6200,7125,6262,3954,594],"class_list":["post-23275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary","category-world-sport","tag-accident","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-death-toll","tag-died","tag-driver","tag-families","tag-friends","tag-identity","tag-ireland","tag-killed","tag-leap","tag-love","tag-northern-ireland","tag-race","tag-the-isle-of-man-tt-races","tag-tragedy","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}