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Race Car Builder Wreck VictimNEWKIRK. N. M., April 9.—f AP) —Alden Sampson, whose auto won the 1928 Indianapolis Memorial Day race, died today in a flaming wreck on dead man’s curve.-The 49-year-old Van Nuys, Cal., man was en route to Indianapolis where he planned to enter another specially built car in the Memorial Day races.State police said driving fatigue probably'contributed to the wreck at 2:89 A. M. Simpson’s pickup truck plunged at high speed into the guard rail on the bridge at Dead Man’s curve. It ripped out 80 feet of guard fence and 13 posts, overturned and burned.The curve, a mile east of here on U. S. 66, swings sharply into the bridge across a deep Arroyo. It takes an annual toll of lives.The body was removed to Tucum-cari, 33 miles east. Sampson’s widow and a former partner, Riley Brett of Van Nuys, are en route here.Sampson owned Louis Meyer's winning car in the 500-mile auto race in 1928.He also; owned the car driven by Wait Ader, Beriiardsvjlle, N. J., in the 1950 Indianapolis 500-mile race. It was running in twenty-second place when rain halted the contest. Sampson was hauling this car’s engine to Indianapolis for this year’s race He had not named his driver for this year. He was a son of Alden Sampson, Jr.. a pioneer tractor inventor in Pittsfield, Mass.
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Terre Haute Star
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 10, 1951
Page 12
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Carl S.
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