JUMP TO SAVE GIRL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 57, 9 March 1937, Page 2

JUMP TO SAVE GIRL

RUNAWAY MOTOR-CYCLE SPECTATOR’S COOL ACTION. A gallant rescue by a spectator of a girl in a runaway sidecar provided a ' thrill in the famous London-Exeter motor trial a few weeks ago. The sidecar was driven by R. 0. Wiltshire, who, in charging Simms Hill, stiffest test of the run, crashed into the bank at the first corner. The driver was thrown to the ground. The girl was tossed and caught by the sidecar like a pancake, and the machine then turned completely round and tore downhill. The girl made vain efforts to reach the handlebars. i Suddenly a spectator sprang on to the saddle and stopped the machine. There were more than 300 entries for the trial, but it was a travelstained and bedraggled procession ■which crawled into the little Dorset * town of Blandford at journey’s eneb ' All the competitors got a mud bath on i Fingle Bridge and a few skidded into ithe ditch. At Simms Hill nearly 100 cars had to be hauled up by a steam tractor. Other cars charged the bank, waltzed round in the mud and flung up stones at the spectators, many of whom were bruised and cut. Competitors took more than six hours to climb the hill, and many of them were left stranded.