Gerald "Jerry" Karl was a York countian who played on the national stage - or rather, drove on national tracks. Karl, who raced at the Indianapolis 500 six times, died recently from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Background posts: For scores of post on other celebrities with York County links, see http://www.yorktownsquare.com/york-celebrities/. To see achievers in sports, see http://www.yorktownsquare.com/york-sports/.
Pedestrian A.B. Farquhar survived an accident involving a vehicle, but injuries sustained hastened the agricultural equipment manufacturer's death.
As I've written before, it was the saddest irony that the life of a captain of industry - a man who harnessed machinery to make machinery to harness the earth - was shortened by a machine.
And David E. Small, a noted York railroad car manufacturer in the 1800s, lost an arm after it became entangled in machinery.
Gerald "Jerry" Karl was similarly a York countian of national stature - a driver at a half dozen Indy 500s... .
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