Spectators injured

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33155, 20 February 1973, Page 15

Spectators injured

WELLINGTON G Perry mid G Moilox tx\o motors x c lists with thru own ta tors-prepared machines were successful riders at the Welling ton grand prix meeting at Gracefield. Lower Hutt. Perry dominated the 26 3-mile grand prix race and won bx 1 about half a lap from I’ Leahy (Auckland) in a lime of 20m in Mollox lost a lap at the start - when he could not get his 750 » c.c. Kawasaki running cleanly, j but he worked his wax into thud 1 place. Perry was gi anted a pusher at lithe start because Ins leg had plaster taken off only on Thursday. He reached speeds of more than 130 m.p.h. along the mam ' straight. x The meeting had an unfortun- ? ; ate ending when in the final lap I of the final race tWO were admitted to hospital after -a machine left the track and hit 1 ithem r Miss H. Johnson, of Wright [ Street. Newtown, was admitted a to hospital with a fractured - I skull. concussion, and internal - injuries. Another spectator. Mrs . Le Dear, of Heath Grove. Lower I j Hutt. was admitted suffering ‘'from concussion, a fractured right arm. and lacerations