LADY MOTORIST CRASHES
FATHER KILLED OUTRIGHT SOUTHPORT SANDS RACE By Telegraph—Pres Assn. —Copyright. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.) LONDON, June 23. Hundreds were horror - stricken when May Cunliffe, a famous racing motorist, whose betrothal recently was announced, took a hair-pin bend too finely while fighting for the first place after covering 66 miles in a 100 miles race a Southport Sands', in a Sunbeam car, which overturned and somersaulted three times.
May and her father, who was a passenger, were extricated from beneath, the father being killed with a severed throat artery, and May having a broken arm’ and cut face. She is progressing in a nursing home. Another car overturned earlier, and was wrecked. The occupants were slightly injured. Malcolm Campbell was also a competitor, but retired through axle trouble.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 225, 25 June 1928, Page 5
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