BROADSIDER DIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 10

BROADSIDER DIES

Fatal Injuries to Head CHRISTCHURCH ACCIDENT Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, November 24. Badly injured by a fall while contesting a race at the Monica Park dirt track on Saturday evening. George M. Chambers, 21, '•ears of age, died in Christchurch Hospital this morning from severe head injuries. The accident occurred during the running of the B Grade Handicap, when Chambers was travelling at a speed of nearly forty miles an hour. Turning the bend into the back straight. Chambers rode high up on the track toward the wooden safety fence, and attempted to pass C. Kennedy. Witnesses’ accounts of the mishap are confused, but it is said that Chambers rode over a rut in the track, bumped in the saddle, and hit an iron post full on with his head. He was knocked unconscious immediately, and was carried along for some distance. His head, which was lying over-the side of the machine, was battered on the wire and posts, while Ihe machine continued on its course. Then the machine seemed to get further out into the track, and subsequently it crashed, throwing Chambers on to the track. Chambers’s crash helmet, built up of cork layers specially prepared, was split through, and he had a deep gash on .the forehead. Chambers resided with his parents at Motukarara. He was a second division rider, and hnd won several races.