Accident on No. 3 Highway near Morpeth
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives195792
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- June 15, 1950
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_3926
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_3927
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 50-1219 (2_3926)
- 50-1220 (2_3927)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_3926
- M7 S1 Sh2 B2 2_3927
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- June 15, 1950
- Publication
- 2_3927 was published in St. Thomas Times-Journal on June 16, 1950, page three.
- Posted on Facebook: June 8, 2022.
- Physical Description
- 2 negatives: plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of a three vehicle collision on No. 3 Highway near Morpeth. Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal on June 16, 1950, page three: “Two Car and Transport Involved in Crash.” 2_3927: “Gerald Garton, Woodstock, Ont., has a miraculous escape from death and injury, in the above accident on King’s Highway No. 3 at the east entrance to Morpeth, about 3:30 o’clock on Thursday afternoon when both side of his new car were ripped off and the rear crushed in as a result of an accident involving a large transport truck and a motor car driven by Charles Keljikien, of Chelsea Mass. The truck and the Massuchetts car were proceeding west while Garton was eastbound. As a dip in the highway at the east entrance to Morpeth was approaching, Keljikien pulled out of line to pass the truck, then seeing Garton approaching up over the hill, tried to pull back into lie but unable to do so took to the south shoulder to avoid a collision. Keljikien is said to have lost control of his car, which swerved back on to the pavement ,striking the front wheel of Garton’s car and knocking his car directly in the path of the big truck. Garton stepped out his wrecked car, which remained on the pavement, without a scratch. The Keljikien car landed in the ditch on the south side of the highway the truck on the north side of the highway. Keljikien’s mother suffered a fracture of her right ankle, but other passengers in the car escaped without injury. Times-Journal representatives returning to St. Thomas from Ridgetown, reached the scene a few minutes after the accident, some time before the police arrived. The accident was investigated by Provincial Constable H. Mason of the Kent detachment.”
- Subject Access
- Accidents
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B8 8_361
- Website / Street View Notes
- Link directs to a Facebook page featuring the image.
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