FATAL SMASH AT MOTOR SPORTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 107, 27 July 1927, Page 9

FATAL SMASH AT MOTOR SPORTS

charge of negligence

a rcsult of a collision between snort, B ' Car at the Ahipura motor anofho ° n - Vinf 'ty-Mile Beach and Snrl F( LU i. driven b V Victor Ferdibet"rßEl^ nhu ‘' the latter was charged SuniLm. Justice Stringer at the e“rtK, n ( OUrt yesterday with neprlideath u motor-eai .-ausing the J Caitaia° £ Jl ' S ’ Elizabeth Spender, of

a sotmr&'i Finla y and Mr. H. F. Guy S ed for the accused. Mi* V, In ‘ n £ the case for the Crown, PrenL ' rst "' said Chat during the a or* 8 t,f a race the accused drove with r v on to the course and collided a S..* a L racin e Dort car, driven by H. sentir vr rber t and carr .Ving as a pasalmno* , rs * Spender who was killed aimogt instantly. STRUCK ON THE TURN S Jrtl ,iam Berr >dge. who acted as dn\L- Ule meeting, said the cur com!?., by accused, which was not i at the time, appro,aclied one 1 so e course at a speed of about raoi!!!} es an hour. It struck the tliA 5 C:ar as the latter was making Wroov 1 " 11 ' Two bottles lay by the of Eisenhut’s car. tu* : All the competing ritil one exception were in ordih V trim. d,.:..t rbert Afiington Fitzherbcrt, t.. jri of the racing car, said he atanH..d over 60 miles in the straight D * 2* ed at about 30 miles an hour, tho i* of Kaitaia. who attended t|, af ln J Urec l- said there was no evidence i V , any °f them had taken drink. >j_., nen the case reopened to-day Lav id \Vhr Hrroll -. child welfare officer, of 5541 he saw accused’s car vn the beach during the prooffioi.i hftli race, and one of the i n * J 1 °ot waving a small flag e Ve n c ®ort to stop it. Eisenhut, how - th« ’ c *ontinued on and crashed into 4n ® racing car. * a ; eo / ge Washington Moore said he timl J 3i i^ enger with Eisenhut at the n laHA 01 tne accident. His first infora ear 11 ° f ap : y danger was the view of SDerfQv omerß:ing: from the crowd of had onl ° v rs to cross their track. They a m » one drink each at about 11.45 *®luteiy^o b^! cused aad "e " ere ab*l° J*'” Honour: I tliink the Hudson did nnt lng at 60 miles an hour. He stop. L iiee an - v °ne signalling them to , f ' inla y. witness said no race car -iJ/i li,G they were tuning-ur> the Port t . consequently they did not extt°ri ’ aoet "■lth a race during their *ohpr ls *. Accused whs obsolutely JUtt before the accidentL