Accident—Springfield

Publication: 1_3068 was published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on October 17, 1951, page one.

Scope and Content: Photograph of a wrecked car, with the front crunched in, and laying next to a railway crossing. Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal, October 17, 1951, page one: “Fortunately There Was Nobody in It.” 1_3068: “The crumpled wreckage of a 1950 Plymouth automobile owned by Donald Wolfe, Springfield, lay all day Tuesday near the N.Y.C. crossing in the southeast outskirts of the village beside the right-of-way after being hit the night before by a Chesapeake & Ohio westbound freight. Mrs. Wolfe, driving the car with three women passengers, misjudged her position on the road at the crossing in a dense fog and the car became wedged between the tracks. She and the other women were trying to get the car extricated when the wigwag signals at the crossing began operating. There was nothing for them to do but stand clear and let the oncoming freight demolish the vehicle. It was cast aside 150 feet or so west of the crossing where other similar accidents have occurred.”

Name Access: St. Thomas (Ont.); New York Central Railroad; Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O)