SAFETY AT CAR RACES
NEW RULES ADOPTED IN FRANCE (Rec. 10 p.m.) PARIS, October 19. The French Motor Racing Federation tonight lifted its ban on motor races in France, but ruled that the organisers must keep to new regulations drawn up by the Interior Ministry. The ban was imposed on June 22 after the Le Mans race disaster, in which a car hurtled into the crowd, killing 82 persons and injuring more than 100. -The regulations require: Spectators must watch from safe places only. Adequate fire-fighting equipment must be provided. Tracks must be sufficiently wide for speed. The organisers must take out unlimited insurance against injury or
death. No race may be held without approval from the Interior Ministry. Barriers must be set up in front of public enclosures unless they are higher than the track. The inquiry by a Le Mans magistrate into the Le Mans disaster is still continuing. All the injured have now left hospital.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27795, 21 October 1955, Page 13
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