FATAL SPEED MANIA.
Latest files contain particulars of the motor car accident in America by which Mr Root, a wealthy manufacturer, and bis aged rattber and aunt were tilled, his sister fatally injured, and his fourteen-year eld niece severely hurt. It was Mr Boot's mania for speed and racing that led to the catastrophe, lie was driving his automobile parallel with the railway lines, and when he heard the roar of the New York-PitUfield express behind him speed madness and the spirit of competition gripped him, it is believed, as on many previous occasions. For more than a mile the car and the train whirled along side by side, and the former forged ahead. The passengers in Use express watching the race with tense interest, saw Mr Boot, in a spirit of frenzied bravado, as they allege, mate a sudden swerve towards the track in (he effort to show that he coui'i not only heat the train, but cross ahead lof it.
It is quite possible that Mr. Boot tried to cross in front of tho train as a last resort. Just where the road turns sharply across the tracks there is i, high bank.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 November 1907, Page 4
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195FATAL SPEED MANIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 November 1907, Page 4
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