Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69

Evel Knievel, the hard-living American motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died on Friday, aged 69.

Knievel had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

His death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel.