CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel has died.

His granddaughter, Krysten Knievel, has confirmed the death.

Knievel had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs. He 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 exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s. Knievel was 69.


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