Rally car in fatal crash

Press, 26 August 1977, Page 4

Rally car in fatal crash

NZP A-Reuter Lahore, Pakistan An Australian-entered Datsun 1600 was knocked out of the |London-to-Sydney car rally yesterday after it was involved in a collision with four motorcyclists in which one of the 1 motor-cyclists was killed, officials said. i The Michael Ellis-lan Baxter Datsun, which was in thirty-1 eighth place, had its front tv res .punctured and windscreen i smashed in the collision near the India-Pakistan border, the, (officials said I Police said the four motorcyclists. all college students, had defied an official instruction to keep the rally route clear One 1 was killed and another seriously (injured. There were no reports’ of any injuries to the Australians. ■ Jacky Prive and Jacques Briyl (France) in a Range Rover were'

the first contestants in the rally i to reach New Delhi yesterday. > Contestants in the 30.000 km * Singapore Airlines event will leave Delhi today for Bomba . i where the.v are expected t<j ■ arrive tomorrow. ‘■ r The Polish drivers, Sobicslaw » Zasada and Wojciech Schramm, 'in a Porsche Carrera were on ’ top of the provisional placing* • after the cars reached Delhi. > The Poles had collected 56 i minutes and 35 seconds at penalty points. ij They were followed bv the British drivers Anthonv Fowkes and Peter O.Gorman 'Mercedes I 280 E. 1 hour 7min 25sec), Andrew • Cowan and crew, also British, 'driving a Mercedes 280 E (1 hour I7min 48secj and Germans Alfred (Kling and crew, also in a Mercedes 280 E 'I hour 56mm 3sec . tPaddv Hopkirk (United Kingdom, C itroen, Ihr 19min 33seo vs at 'fifth.