MOTOR CAR, ACCIDENTS.
'United Press Association— fir Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (Received August 5, 8.23 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. A seventy-six horfite-power Mercedet { car, running at a speed of 110 miles per hour at Brooklands, left the track anc shot the occupants 100 ft across tht River Wey, killing Burke, a mechanician, and seriously injuring Lane, the driver. (Received August 5, 8.40 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, August 4. A motor-car's emergency brakes a1 San Francisco snapped, and the car fel over a steep embankment. Mrs M'Cormick, her daughter, aged eighteer years, and Mrs O'Brien, her son anc baby were killed. The families arc well-known in San Francteco. Two oi the occupants of the car escaped un- > injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9306, 5 August 1908, Page 2
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