Toyota-United to help paralyzed former Mexican national champion

Fausto Munoz (right) on the podium at the 2006 Univest Grand Prix

Fausto Munoz (right) on the podium at the 2006 Univest Grand Prix (Image credit: FJ Hughes)

In a high-speed crash in the final stage of the Tour of Gila in Silver City, New Mexico last weekend, Fausto Muñoz Esparza suffered serious, life-altering injuries. The former Mexican National Champion is in critical, but stable condition in the intensive care unit of El Paso's Thomason Hospital in Texas with a broken back which has left him paralyzed from the waist down.