SPEEDWAY TRAGEDY
AT BROOKLANDS
24 HOURS’ TEST.
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.]
NEW YORK, May 10,
There were several spectators injured in a sensational accident at Brook la lids during the twenty-four hours’ test in which fifty-nine racers are competing.
Two Talbots, an Alfa, a Romeo, and an Austin were racing at over eighty miles an hour when a Talbot, driven by llabagliatti, skidded and hurled itsell over the fence amongst the crowd, killing his mechanic, Allery, and also a man and a woman in the crowd.
.The occupants of another Talbot closely following, had a miraculous escape. They crashed into the wreckage, but crawled out practicaly unhurt.
Woof Bnrnoto’s two Bentleys were first and se ond at the end. They averaged 90 miles an hour. Forty-one cars are still in the *u.ce, of which six are French and Italian.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1930, Page 7
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