![]() ![]() The race meeting was halted after the accident. The Mahoney Brothers car had low elapsed time for the day, 10.31, and had run the fastest speed of the day, 135mph, in the morning time trials. It was Mahoney's third or fourth run of the day in a Mercury powered, fiberglass bodied car he and his brother had built. ![]() Mahoney's seat belt and the car's roll bar remained intact, but his helmet came off in the crash. Having passed through the time trap at 129.82mph in a side-by-side run, Mahoney's dragster veered into a skid, flipped end over end, then rolled for 1000 feet before coming to rest on its side. ![]() Complete name: Joseph Vincent Mahoney, Jr.īirth Place: Cook County, IL, United Statesĭeath Place: Santa Rosa, CA, United StatesĢ6-year-old college student Joe Mahoney died after his dragster flipped and rolled at the end of a run on the Santa Rosa Drag Strip near Cotati, California on 16 December 1956. ![]()
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