SPEEDWAY ACCIDENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 14

SPEEDWAY ACCIDENT

MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURED MISHAP UNNOTICED DUST OVER TRACK (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. After the last event at the Auckland Motor-cycle Club's grass track meeting at Henning's Speedway, Mangere on Saturday, one of the competitors was found to be missing and when a search was made, he was found in in an injured condition crawling through the long grass toward the trade. The victim was John Hollingsworth, a brick-worker, single, aged 27, Avondale. He suffered concussion, and head injuries and a possible fracture of the pelvis and possible abdominal injuries. He was taken to the hospital. Apparently no one saw the accident on account of the heavy pall of dust created by 10 motor-cycles in the race. When Hollingsworth failed to check in on his return, his attendant set out to search the track for him. finding him in a dazed condition emerging on all fours from the undergrowth at the side of the track. His machine was lying nearby hidden in the long grass. : The track i s a mile and' a quarter round and the mishap occurred at almost the farthest point from the group of spectators and officials at the finishing line. This fact, as well as that of the riders being obscured in Ihe dust, probably accounted for the accident going unnoticed.