Bill Cummings

Bill Cummings

Bill Cummings (November 11, 1906 Indianapolis, Indiana – February 8, 1939 Indianapolis, Indiana) knicknamed "Wild Bill", won the 1934 Indianapolis 500 and set the diesel . Cummings died driving a passenger automobile on State Road 29 in Indianapolis, when he hit a guard rail and plunged 50 feet into Lick Creek. Cummings was pulled from the water by passers-by while still alive, ["Associated Press", as published in the "Albuquerque Journal", February 8th, 1939, page 2.] but died in the hospital two days later . [ [http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F20915F83A5B177A93CBA91789D85F4D8385F9 Injuries Kill Cummings] "Associated Press", as published in the "New York Times", February 8th, 1939. ]

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