This is a list of Dakar Rally fatal accidents involving both competitors and non-competitors who have died during a Dakar Rally event.
Among the 46 non-competitor fatalities are those of the race's founder Thierry Sabine, 14 news journalists and support crew, 23 spectators, and 4 children.
The Dakar Rally has received criticism because of its high mortality rates, with the Vatican Paper describing the event as "the bloody race of irresponsibility".
PANA, a Dakar-based news agency, wrote that the deaths were "insignificant for the [race's] organizers".
[2] The Dakar organizers have not officially recorded or reported on African and Latin American spectator and innocent bystanders deaths.