Victor John Surridge (1892

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, UK – 27 June 1911 Glen Helen,

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) was an English motor-cycle racer who raced for the Rudge team. After the works Rudge factory team visited the

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Races for the first time, Victor Surridge while practising for the

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Races was killed on the Glen Helen section on the new

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used for the first-time in 1911. From October 1910, Victor Surridge had ridden as a trade representative for Rudge motor-cycles and held an hour motor-cycle record at

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and fastest-lap. The accident to Victor Surridge occurred on the steep left-hand corner at Glen Helen and occurred when Victor Surridge attempted to pass another competitor, ran wide into a ditch and struck an earth-bank. An inquest decided that the death of Victor Surridge had probably been instantaneous and represented the first death of a competitor on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course and the first death on the Island of a person in an automotive accident.''TT Topics and Tales'' by David Wright – Amulree Publications (4 April 2006)

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