FATALITY ON RACING TRACK.
GIRL DRIVERi’S CAR. OVERTURNS HER, FATHER. KILLED. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, June 23. Hundreds were horror-stricken when May Ou-nliffe, the famous -racing motorist, whose betrothal was recently announced, took a hairpin bend too finely while fighting for first place after; covering 66 miles in a 100 miles race at -.Southport Sa.ndis in a Sunbeam oa,r.
The cair overturned and three times somersaulted. May and her father, who .was a passenger, were extricated from beneath the car. the father being dead with a severed throat artery. May had broken an arm and was cut about the face. She is .progressing in a nursing home.
Another oar overturned earlier and was wrecked, the occupants being slightl y inj u red. Captain Malcolm Campbell was also a competitor, hut he (retired through axle trouble.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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