RACING CARS WRECKED
Three Killed at Brooklands Motor, Going 80 m.p.h., Leaps Fence ’TRAVELLING at 80 miles an hour, a racing car crashed at 1 Brooklands, and killed three persons as well as injuring several spectators, as it leapt a fence. The occupants of a following car narrowly escaped death.
Reed. 1.15 p.m. LONDON. Friday. Three persons were killed and several spectators injured in a sensational accident at Brooklands during the 24 hours’ test, in -which 59 racing motor-cars were competing. Two Talbots, an Alfa Romeo and an Austin, were racing at more than 80 miles an hour when the Talbot, driven by Rabagliatti, skidded and was hurled over the fence among the crowd, killing his mechanic, Allery,
and also a man and a woman in the crowd.
The occupants of the other Talbot, who were following closely, had a miraculous escape. They crashed into the wreckage, but crawled out practically unhurt. Woolf Barnato’s two Bentleys were first and second at the end of tho day. haring averaged 90 miles an hour. Forty-one cars are still in the race, of which six are French and Italian.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 1
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