Notes:
A huge accident which happened at a race meeting at Pukekohe, Auckland Regional Council, New Zealand, on Saturday, 30 March 1963, claimed the lives of two men.

During a race, New Zealander Rod Coppins lost control of his Tec-Mec single-seater. The car started flipping several times, coming to rest upside-down on a field beside the track. Unfortunately during its rolls, the car hit and killed the flag marshal Dan Peoples, 26, and a St. Ambulance Brigade worker on duty at the meeting, which name was Laurence Lorigan, 20-year-old from Tuakau, New Zealand.

The car was slightly damaged in the crash and Rod Coppins escaped with minor injuries. After the tragedy he gave up racing for a while, before returning the next season at the wheel of the Zephyr - Corvette.

The marshal Dan Peoples, 26, was reported to be from Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand. His brother, Sam Peoples was competing in the same event, at the wheel of an Austin A30.

Rod Coppins was driving the Tec-Mec - full name Studio Tecnica Meccanica - an Italian car built by former Maserati designer Valerio Colotti, financed by Lucky Casner's Camoradi International. It was a 1954-type Maserati 250F fitted with a Chevrolet Corvette V8 engine by Ross Jensen who first took the car to New Zealand. The car was then raced by Johnny Mansel in 1961, before being sold to Rod Coppins, who had worked in Mansel's team. Coppins converted the car to compete in sportscar races in New Zealand, putting the central-seat body of former Ron Roycroft's Ferrari on it. Coppins turned back to the Tec-Mec original single-seater form, in 1963.

After the marshal's death, the "Dan Peoples Memorial Trophy", a six-lap club handicap race, was organized at Pukekohe in his memory.

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• Newspaper "NZ Herald" (auckland, New Zealand), issue of 01 April 1963 [M1].
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• E-mail by Jesper Hvid Petersen, dated 25 January 2013, citing [H1].
• E-mail by David McKinney, dated 30 January 2013, citing [M1].