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Dec 19, 2017
4 minutes
In reply to Mr Chatterton and others
Dear CR I feel I must comment on the letter from Gordon Chatterton (no relation) issue 187, regarding ‘his gripe’ as he calls it, on the TT races. While I agree that any death in racing is one too many, Gordon will find if he checks the figure, which is easily done in these Google days, that the current fatal accident figures are substantially lower than in the 1950s for instance, which I would guess is Gordon’s favourite TT decade and one of mine too.
For example, in the years 1950 to 1959 there were 44 races with 19 deaths. In the years 2008 to 2017 there were almost twice as many
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