AMAZING ACCIDENT
MOTOR BOAT AT LARGE DRIVER THROWN OUT (Special to 'he Herald.) / RUSSELL, this day. A most extraordinary accident occurred yesterday afternoon during the running of the outboard motor boat race at Russell. Oil rounding the mark, Humbug, the most powerful boat in the race, threw its driver, L. Rteriekor, overboard. The boat, which was doing 35 miles an hour, careered on in ■ circles round the mark, while the driver was swimming in the water to the safety of the mark boat. .The Humbug circled the mark no fewer than five times in ever-widening circles. In its course the boat skimmed past the driver, narrowly missing his head with its fin. A man who was rowing a dinghy near the course failed to notice the rushing boat, which charged straight at the dinghy, striking it and leaping over its occupant. In doing so the fin cut his face, and the Humbug came over the boat again, and suddcnlv came to rest. 'The man in the dinghy is thought to have suffered concussion, and was attended by a doctor, A large crowd of spectators was horror-stricken when "the speedboat leaped over the dinghy, and it was at first- feared that the man had been killed. Mr. Sterickcr crawled into the mark boat unharmed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 7
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