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Crashes kill three at Jim Clark Rally

Three spectators were killed and six injured as two crashes inflicted horror at the Jim Clark Rally in the Scottish Borders on Saturday.
A woman and two men died in the most serious crash which took place at about 4pm near Coldstream when a rally car came off the road and hit four spectators.
Spectator Tony Cowan told the BBC: “It was just one car which lost control. It went sideways one way and then to the other side of the road and ploughed into four people.”
Two hours earlier, a rally car left the road and hit five people on the Eccles stage of the competition. Two men remained in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with critical injuries yesterday.
Organisers halted the two-day event after the fatal crash.
The rally is named after Scottish Formula One driver Jim Clark, who grew up in the area. He died in a crash in Hockenheim in Germany in 1968.

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