SENSATIONAL CRASH.
MOTOR RACING ACCIDENT. SPECTATOR'S LEG SEVERED. _A sensational accident occurred soon after the start of the Grand Prix 200mile motor race at Cowes, Victoria, on March 14. Skidding off the road, one of the contesting cars struck Mr. H. R. Wilkinson, aged 22 years, of East St. Kilda, severing his left leg above the knee. Another spectator was slightly hurt, and the driver and mechanic of the car were injured. On his secopd lap, Mr. A. Edwards, driving a super-charged front-wheel drive machine, was passing the pits near the starting point when- the car began to swerve. Mr. Edwards was successful in checking the first, skid, but immediately afterwards the machine appeared to get completely out of control, and at a speed of nearly, 70 miles an hour skidded to the left side of the. road, struck a heap of loose metal, and lept through the air for a distance of 25ft.
The car, in turning over, struck Mr. 'Wilkinson, who was walking toward tho fence. Mr. Edwards and his mechanic were thrown clear, and the car came to upside down iri a pool of water. Mr. Wilkinson was taken to hospital in a serious condition. Mr. Thomas Phayre, mechanic of the car, also was admitted to hospital with injuries t° the head and broken ribs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 6
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