MOTORIST KILLED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 295, 26 September 1932, Page 5

MOTORIST KILLED.

CRASH AT BROOK LANDS. ACCIDENT AT HIGH SPEED. (United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 24. Clive Dunfee, driving "VVoolf Barnato's huge green Bentley at 120 miles an hour in the Racing Drivers' Club's 500-miles race at Brooklands, the world's speediest long-distance event, could not outstrip Death. Soon after Dunfee relieved his brother Jack, the winner of last year's race, at the wheel, the car skidded and crashed over the edge of the banked track, m full view of the members' bridge, hurling the driver and portion of the wreckage athwart the track. The five following cars fortunately avoided the body of Dunfee, who was killed instantly, as it rolled to the lower edge. Turning somersaults the Bentley crashed -through the bushes and railings into the road sixty feet below. The other competitors continued the race which resulted as follows:—Horton and Bartlett, M.G. Midget 96.29 miles an hour • • •• • 1 Cyrl Paul aind J. Philips, Riley, 99.61 miles an hour .•. - • 2 Brian Lewis and John Cobbs, Talbot, 111-6 miles per hour ... •* Won by 4min 43sec, or seven miles. There was two miles, between second and third. , . Count Czaykowski in a Bugatti, Commander Eyston in a Midget and Fredcty~Dixon in a Riley retired owing to mechanical mishaps. Sir Malcolm Campbell and the Earl of Howe were unplaced.