Accident – Eagle Ont. - Heritage Collections Elgin-St. Thomas

Storage Location: M7 S1 Sh1 B2 2_575; M7 S1 Sh1 B2 2_576; M7 S1 Sh1 B2 2_577

Storage Location: M7 S1 Sh1 B2 2_575; M7 S1 Sh1 B2 2_576; M7 S1 Sh1 B2 2_577

Publication: 2_576 was published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on April 19, 1952, page eleven.

Scope and Content: Photographs of a car accident and a gathering crowd in front of the Teeter service station in Eagle. Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal, April 19, 1952, page one: “Scene of Mishaps at Eagle.” 2_576: “This was scene in Eagle late Friday afternoon of a series of accidental occurrences which culminated in the death in Memorial Hospital of H. Benton Goodbrand, 46, of Toronto. Looking east, this view takes in the driveway in front of the Teeter service station where the trouble started when Harry Gallagher, 86, of West Lorne, drove into the service station property and rammed a tractor (at the left in the photo), then veered off the right and came to a stop at the edge of the highway. The Gallagher car appears in the centre-left foreground. The tractor knocked a gas pump off its base and gasoline from the tractor’s broken tank took fire. While men at the service station were fighting the fire, Harry Kell, 66, of Rondeau, drove by going east of the service station when a westbound car driven by Goodbrand rammed head on into him. Their wrecked car are shown at the right in the photo where they came to rest in the middle of the highway. Goodbrand, not apparently seriously injured, died of a heart attack just after he arrived in Memorial Hospital for an examination. Kell, also brought to the hospital, was seriously injured and his condition is “just fair” today.”