DRIVER’S INJURIES
“Moss Will Race
Again”
(N.Z Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 20.
Mr Ken Gregory, the manager of Stirling Moss, said tonight that injuries suffered by the British racing driver in a crash in Belgium were “most definitely not serious enough to stop him racing again.” Mr Gregory made the remark at Gatwick Airport shortly before Moss was taken by ambulance to St. Thomas’s Hospital. London. Moss underwent an immediate examination of serious injuries incurred during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix.
- Moss and Mike Taylor, another British racing driver injured on Europe’s fastest grand prix track at Francorchamps travelled together in a chartered airliner accompanied by a doctor and nurse.
Referring to Moss’s injuries of two broken legs, a broken nose and a cracked vertebrae in his spine. Mr Gregory said: “They are not a matter of gravity—but a question of inconvenience.
“He has not actually broken his back, but three vertebrae are slightly crushed together and he may have a chipped one. He may be in plaster for two or three months.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29237, 22 June 1960, Page 17
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