MOTOR-CAR TRAGEDY.
DASH INTO SPECTATORS. SENSATION AT - RACE MEETING. (Received 10.35 p.m.) Reuter. PARIS, Aug. 25. A motor-car race meeting held at Boulogne opened disastrously. A famuos Brooklands driver, Howey, an Australian, failed to take a second bend during a hill-climbing test. His car dashed into the spectators, one of whom was killed. A gendarme's leg was broken and a spectator's leg was cut off. Howey was killed instantly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 11
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69MOTOR-CAR TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19418, 28 August 1926, Page 11
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