Potato Truck Accident at the Glenorchy Bridge, 1964
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The two photographs in this record show the crashed potato truck and the work to retrieve it in about 1964 (the photo was developed in 1965 but that was likely a few months after it was taken). The truck was guided onto Fourth Line, an unsuitable route for a truck, by detour signs during Trafalgar Road construction. The story is that the detour signs had been moved.
The bridge at Glenorchy crossed an arm of the Sixteen Mile Creek at Fourth Line just below the Lower Baseline Rd., Halton County. This bridge had been built in about 1898 and stood until this accident. A second bridge was built on the same abutments in the mid 1980's (search our collection for other photographs of the Glenorchy bridges and school) but in 2001, as per the linked newspaper story, the crossing became a bicycle/pedestrian crossing only as the area is prone to flooding and the north bank road up to Lower Base Line is so very steep. - Notes
- To view the 2nd image, click on "Pages" "Select".
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- TTDAS000643
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4840950374647 Longitude: -79.7892467938232
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Potato Truck Accident at the Glenorchy Bridge, 1964
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
