DIRT-TRACK SPILL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 13

DIRT-TRACK SPILL

Rider Badly Hurt CRASH INTO FENCE Av Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, November 23. At the first of the dirt-track races of the season held on Saturday evening, a young rider, George Chambers, suffered severe injuries from a fall when the race was in progress. He was rushed to hospital unconscious and his condition is reported to be extremely critical. Turning the bend into the back straight Chambers rode high up on the track toward the wooden safety fence. Even the onlookers were unable to describe clearly what happened. It seemed that Chambers rode over a rut in the track, bumped in the saddle, fell forward inert on the petrol tank, head over the handlebars. In this position machine and rider struck the safety fence a glancing blow, the machine continuing along the fence for seventy yards before it turned over, throwing Chambers on to the track. His inert body slid for a distance of ten yards in the loose cinder surface. The large crowd present was shocked into silence as officials rushed to bls assistance. Chambers is 21 years old and lives at Gebbie’s Valley. He is a second division rider, but has won several races. A. W. Hunger, a dirt-track rider, crashed while riding in the second semifinal of the Miramar Handicap at, the Kilbirnie Speedway Stadium on Saturday evening. He suffered facial cuts and concussion. Hunger, who was unconscious for some time, was attended to by a doctor and by the Free Ambulance, and was later taken by a private car to his home in Oriental Bay.