1955 Driver Bill Vukovich dies from a crash at the Indianapolis Speedways 500 mile classic

Story No. NY-8 TELENEWS DAILY NEWS FILM Vol. 8, Issue No. 107
PRODUCED: May 31,1955 RELEASE: Immediate CREDIT: May 31,1955
Origin: SPORTS WORLD: DEATH MARS SPEED CLASSIC Footage: 63
Time: 105 sec.
( 1 min. 45 sec. )
SC NO TL FT TL TM PIX NARRATION
A. 2 3 (TITLE)
1. 3 5 LS TOWER Indianapolis Speedways five-hundred-mile-classic draws one hundred and fifty thousand spectators.
2. 5 8 MS CROWD
3. 6 10 MS McGRATH IN CAR They come expecting a searing duel between Jack McGrath, who set a record in the trials, and Bill Vukovich, winner the last two years and aiming at an unprecedented three in a row. Two others have tried the feat and failed.
4. 7 12 CU SAME
5. 9 15 MS VUKOVICH IN CAR
6. 11 18 CU SAME PAN TO CAR
7. 12 20 CU SAME
8. 14 23 LS OF BALLOONS GOING UP Strong winds catch up a spray of five hundred baloons as a field of thirty-three starts off with throttles open wide.
9. 18 29 LS STANDS & CARS PAST
10. 20 33 BS RACE At the hundred and twenty-five-mile mark, vukovich, leading the pack, sets a new record at one hundred and thirty-six miles an hour. His lap prizes make him the top money winner in Speedway history.
11. 26 43 HS RACE PASSING CAMERA
12. 27 45 MS CROWD
13. 30 49 LS SMOKE & WRECKAGE PEOPLE AROUND And then disaster. Smoke rises from a five-car pileup in the backstretch. Three drivers and two sideswiped safety patrol men are injured--but Bill Vukovich, trapped beneath his flaming car, is carried away dead. The Indianapolis classic once again defeats a dream of three successive wins.
14. 32 53 MS SAME
15. 34 56 CU CARRYING BODY
16. 37 61 MS BODY INTO AMBUL
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SPORTS WORLD: DEATH MARS SPEED CLASSIC –- Continued......
17. 39 65 MS ANOTHER WRECKED CAR The wrecked cars are carted from the track while the rest of the field slows down and holds position. The delay upsets hopes for a new record after a sizzling start.
18. 41 68 MS SAME CARS RACING
19. 44 73 A.A. SAME
20. 49 81 HS RACE Then the race picks up and the cars whiz around the brick and asphalt turns at breakneck speeds.
21. 52 86 A.A. SAME
22. 55 91 A.A. SAME Only fourteen starters remain as the drivers roar into the last of two hundred gruelling laps. In first place and zooming towards the finish line is Indianapolis hometown boy Bob Sweikert.
23. 56 93 LS CROWD
24. 59 98 CU MAN WAVING FLAG
25. 63 105 MS WINNER WIPES FACE & GETS KISS FROM WIFE & DINAH SHORE In the Victory Lane, Mrs. Sweikert and songstress Dinah Shore Give a bussing bonus to the Five Hundred winner for 1955.