THE ALTAR OF SPEED
ANOTHER SACRIFICE Two Smashes, One Fata], in Auto Race in England SPECTATORS HORROR-STRICKEN. ( By Telcyxaph—Per Press Asan.—Copyright ] l Aubtrallan Press Assn.—United .Service ] Received June 24, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, June 23. Hundreds were horror-stricken when May Cunliffu, the famous racing motorist, whose betrothal was recently announced, took a hairpin bend too finely while fighting for first place after covering 66 miles in a race at Southport sands in a Sunbeam car.
The car overturned and three times somersaulted. May and her father, who was a passenger, were extricated from beneath, her father being killed, with a severed throat artery. Miss Cunlifte has a broken arm and cuts on the face, and is progressing in a nursing home.
Another car overturned earlier and was wrecked, the occupants being slightly injured. Captain Malcolm Campbell was also a competitor, but retired through axle trouble.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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144THE ALTAR OF SPEED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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