TRAGEDY AT BROOKLANDS
Car Skids and Crashes
off Track I AMOUS DRIVER. KILLED. London. Sept. 2 4 A tragic accident marred the British Racing Drivers’ Club’s 500 miles race at Brooklands to-day. The famous racing motorist, Clive Dunfee. driving Captain Woolf Barnato’s huge green Bentley at a speed of 120 miles an hour in the world's speediest long-distance event, could not outstrip death.
Soon after Dunfee had relieved his brother Jack, winner of last year’s race, at the wheel, the car skidded and crashed over the edge of the banked track in full view of members on the bridge. The driver and a portion of the wreckage were hurled athwart the track where following cars fortunately avoided Dunfee’s body as it rolled to the lower edge. The Bentley crashed and turned a somersault through bushes and railings into a road 60 feet below. The driver was picked up dead.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10924, 26 September 1932, Page 3
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