SPEEDING CAR'S CRASH.
DRIVER'S LUCKY ESCAPE. * Speeding at 150 miles an hour a few weeks ago on Pendino Sands in an attempt to create a world's motor record, Signor Foresti's car skidded and rolled over twice. Foresti, who is an Italian, staggered out with a badly cut eye and injury to his shoulder, and the car was completely wrecked. The attempt was being made in his car to establish a new mile record from a standing start. When within about 100 yards of the tape at the end of the course tho car skidded on the wet sand and crashed broadside into a flagstaff marking the end of the course. Tho car then turned right over and went to pieces in a column of smoke.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19856, 28 January 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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125SPEEDING CAR'S CRASH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19856, 28 January 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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