WORLD : Mother-Son Car Race Injures Five
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FUERTH, West Germany — A midnight motor race between a tipsy West German housewife and her son ended when the woman’s car plowed into a column of marching soldiers, seriously injuring five, police said today.
The 41-year-old woman lost control of her car on a bridge near this southern town Thursday night. It hit eight soldiers, flinging some into the river. Four soldiers were in critical condition in a hospital. Neither the woman nor her 20-year-old son was hurt.
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