MOTOR FATALITY

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1932, Page 5

MOTOR FATALITY

IN SPEED RACE OVER BANK AT 120 M.P.H. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 24. Olive Dunfee, driving Woolf Barnato’s huge green Bentley car at one hundred 'and twenty miles an hour in the Racing Driver’s Club five hundred miles race at Brooklyn; the world’s speediest long-distance event, could not outstrip death. Soon after Clive had relieved his brother, Jack Dunfee, the winner of last year’s race, at the wheel, the car skidded, -and it then crashed over the edge of the banked track in full view of the members’ bridge. 'The driver find portion of the wreckage were hurled athwart the track. There were five cars following Dunfee’s, and they fortunately avoided his. corpis© as it rolled to the lower edge., The IBentley car itself era,shed somersaulting through bushes and railings, into- a Voad sixty feet,below. The others competitors continued the race, the result being as follows: Htwton and' Bortlett's M„G, Midget, 96 point 29 miles per hew, Ist. Cyril Paul and J, Philips’ Riley, 99 point 01 inifos an how, 2nd.

Brian lieiwis and John Cobb’s Talbot, 111 point 0 miles per hour, 3rd.

The winning margin was 283 seconds otherwise seven miles. There were two miles between the second and third. .

Count Czaykoiwski, in la BugattiEyston Midget, and Freddy Dixon, in a Riley, retired owing to mechanical mishaps. , . . Sir iMhiloolm. Oampbel land Earl Howe weire both unplaced.