SPEEDWAY MISHAP
RIDER’S SERIOUS INJURIES [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND. March 12. After the last event at the Auckland Motor-Cycle Club’s grass track meeting at Hennings Speedway. Mangere. on Saturday, one of the competitors was round to be missing, and when a search was made, he was found, injured. crawling through long grass towards the track. The victim was John Hollingsworth, a. brick worker, single. 27. of Avondale. He suffered concussion, bead injuries, a possible fracture- of the pelvis, and possible abdominal injuries. He was taken to hospital. Apparently no one saw the accident on account of rhe heavy pall of dust created by the 10 motor-cycles in the race. When Hollingsworth failed to check in on his return his attendant set out'to search the track for him. finding him in a dazed condition emerging on all-fours from the undergrowth at the side of the track. His machine was lying near by. hidden in the long grass. The track is a mile and a-quarter round, and the mishap occurred at almost the farthest point from the group of spectators and ofiicials at the finishing line. This, as well as the riders being obscured in dust, probably accounted for the accident occurring unnot iced.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 3
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