MOTOR-CYCLE SENSATION.
CRASH AMONG SPECTATORS. Irj SEVEN PERSONS INJURED. Seven persons, including two riders, {were injured when two motor-cycles jumped the safety fence at the speedway at Parramatta, Sydney, on March J2, and landed among the spectators. During the first seini-final of the flying if'nine" scratch race, Albert Bayldon and John Allen, two of the competitors, were racing at a high speed when their machines became locked together rounding a bend. The riders were unable to free them, and they crashed heavily into the fence, tearing away the pickets for about j3oft., and strewing thern about the track. With the throttles still wide open tho jcycles, with the riders clinging to them, leapt the fence amid the spectators. Fortunately the accident happened at a spot, [whore the crowd was thinnest. Bayldon thrown against a tree about 12ft. from the fence, and there were confused cries as the crowd ran to release several persoins pinned beneath the machines. !Five of thoso injured were admitted to Jiospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 14
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