One Of Victims Still Hospitalized
One of (ho four spectators injured at the stock car races at the Norwood Arena late Saturday night when a wheel flew off one of the cars, jumped a high wire fence, and crashed into the crowd, is still confined to the Norwood Hospital.
Miss Dorothy Gamelin, 21. of G1 Cedar Street, Taunton. Norwood Hospital officials said, has a fractured right ankle and left leg. Treated for minor bruises and released were Joan Clery, 18, of 23 Presbury Avenue, Taunton, Leo Geoffry, 19. of 156 Thornton Avenue, Lowell, and Joseph Pelletier, 30, of 328 Monoth road, Lowell.
All were injured when the flying wheel landed in the stands in the sixth race of the night. Norwood police took the injured to the Norwood Hospital.
In a similar accident four years ago, the wife of a Westwood doctor suffered fatal injuries when struck on the head by a flying wheel.
(All articles were originally published in the Norwood Messenger unless otherwise noted)
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