TRACK DISASTER
SPECTATORS KILLED. .United Press Association—By Electro Telegrap h—Copy right;. NxvTv iGRK, May 17. A message from Langhorne, in Pennsylvania, states that while forty thousand people watched a racing motor being driven on a dirt track by Frank Bailley, the motor threw a tyre and it then plunged through the fence into a group of the spectators. A moment later, spectators, swarmed .on to the dirt track in the path of another motor. Three persons were killed, and four wore critically injured, including Bailley. The police were-unable to determine which of the casualties were attributed to eacli motor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1937, Page 3
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