SOUTH AFRICA: WELSH DRIVER TOM PRYCE AND 19-YEAR-OLD FIRE MARSHAL DIE IN SOUTH AFRICAN GRAND PRIX.

Record ID: 1055521

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: WELSH DRIVER TOM PRYCE AND 19-YEAR-OLD FIRE MARSHAL DIE IN SOUTH AFRICAN GRAND PRIX.
  • Date: 9th March 1977
  • Summary: 1. GV Start of Formula One motor racing 0.18 2. AERIAL VIEW Cars along track 0.35 3. MV Driver running around burning car - marshals run across track and one is struck by Tom Pryce's car - his body flung into air and hits fence 0.42 4. MVs Crowds watch as marshal's body put on stretcher (2 shots) 0.46 5. MVs Marshals and drivers drag Pryce's body from car (2 shots) 1.04 6. MV Mechanics in pit watch as Pryce's body lifted onto stretcher and taken away (2 shots) 1.18 7. AERIAL VIEW Race in progress 1.28 8. GV Niki Lauda of Austria takes chequered flag followed by Jody Scheckter of S. Africa in second place and France's Patrick Depailler in third 1.42 9. CU Track official speaks to newsmen 2.14 TRANSCRIPT: (SEQ. 9): TRACK OFFICIAL: "Taking the grand Prix on Saturday as an example with James Hunt's idea, with 20 to 30 marshals, I am absolutely convinced there would certainly not have been a marshal placed at that particularly point. It is not regarded as a dangerous corner. So you would have been no better off. The unexpected must happen. And I think the interests of the safety of drivers would be better served by people coming out, looking over the shoulders of the existing marshals, working with them and helping where possible." Initials OS SPORT: MOTOR RACING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 1977 13:00
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  • Location: KYALAMI, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: LVABXK2SPA8TXYF0SDJSY8SR4XNG
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