Tag: Accidents
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Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway.
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Mystery Foto #39 Solved: Louis Chevrolet’s Fatal Crash in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a major crash in a Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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An Accident on the Motor Parkway in Garden City on July 8, 1931- Updated: 10/17/16
This is a never-before-published photo of an accident which occurred on the Long Island Motor Parkway in Garden City on July, 8, 1931.
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George Robertson’s Last Practice Run
After skipping the 1909 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the 1908 winner George Robertson was preparing for a triumphant return in the 1910 Race driving a Benz. His hopes for a repeat win and his future racing career were dashed with one of the strangest accidents in Vanderbilt Cup Race history.
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The 1906 Accident That Changed Long Island Auto Racing
Tony, the powerful French Hotckiss car involved in the accident was driven by Elliot Shepard, Jr., a 30-year old American and William K. Vanderbilt Jr's cousin. As described in several publications, the accident occurred near the Long Island Railroad crossing on Jericho Turnpike in Mineola:
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…