Chester Gooch Brown was fatally injured in an automobile race at Nashville, Tennessee.
Clyde Donavan was leading the race in a Studebaker machine. Suddenly on the back stretch he swerved the car to keep from running down a child. The rear axle snapped and Donavan steered the car into a fence.
The car struck a heavy post, tore down a large section of fence, hurling scores of spectators to the ground, then vaulting through the air, landing a good way down the track in a mass of wreckage. Billy Sherrod and his mechanic, Gooch Brown, along with John sherril and Thomas Porter Bridges, all plowed into the wreck and were fatally injured.
Clyde Donavan was leading the race in a Studebaker machine. Suddenly on the back stretch he swerved the car to keep from running down a child. The rear axle snapped and Donavan steered the car into a fence.
The car struck a heavy post, tore down a large section of fence, hurling scores of spectators to the ground, then vaulting through the air, landing a good way down the track in a mass of wreckage. Billy Sherrod and his mechanic, Gooch Brown, along with John sherril and Thomas Porter Bridges, all plowed into the wreck and were fatally injured.
Chester Gooch Brown was fatally injured in an automobile race at Nashville, Tennessee.
Clyde Donavan was leading the race in a Studebaker machine. Suddenly on the back stretch he swerved the car to keep from running down a child. The rear axle snapped and Donavan steered the car into a fence.
The car struck a heavy post, tore down a large section of fence, hurling scores of spectators to the ground, then vaulting through the air, landing a good way down the track in a mass of wreckage. Billy Sherrod and his mechanic, Gooch Brown, along with John sherril and Thomas Porter Bridges, all plowed into the wreck and were fatally injured.
Clyde Donavan was leading the race in a Studebaker machine. Suddenly on the back stretch he swerved the car to keep from running down a child. The rear axle snapped and Donavan steered the car into a fence.
The car struck a heavy post, tore down a large section of fence, hurling scores of spectators to the ground, then vaulting through the air, landing a good way down the track in a mass of wreckage. Billy Sherrod and his mechanic, Gooch Brown, along with John sherril and Thomas Porter Bridges, all plowed into the wreck and were fatally injured.
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