THE DEADLY MOTOR.
CHAPTER OP ACCIDENTS.
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED
'/nited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received August 23, 8.40 am. NEW YORK, August 22.
Louis Strang, driving a Buick car, won the 100 mile race at Indianopolis in one hour 32 minutes 40 seconds. The "world's previous record was one hour 44 minutes. A car in another race on Friday dashed irto a fence, killing Bourge, the driver, ar.d also a mechanician. Anothei car on Saturday dashed into a fence and killed three spectators. On the same day a chauffeur and three Canadian ladies were killed through a motor car being precipitated over a trestle bridge at Seattle.
Thirty-eight fatal motor-car accidents have occurred in America during the last twenty-four hours.
AMSTERDAM, August 22. Three motorists were killed in a collision at Nijmegen, in Ho land.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 5
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136THE DEADLY MOTOR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9576, 24 August 1909, Page 5
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