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One of the smashed cars from the Highway 400 accident is examined near the site of the crash
One of the smashed cars from the Highway 400 accident is examined near the site of the crash

One of the smashed cars from the Highway 400 accident is examined near the site of the crash

Date3/26/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: One of the smashed cars from the Highway 400 accident is examined near the site of the crash. Police should not have re-opened the highways; says one reader. Sanders should have been out; says another. Ban tractor and flat-bed trailers from highways on Sundays; says a third.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0000949F
Bus filled with students from Weston Collegiate was sliced in half in the crash, strewing Highway 400 with twisted metal and smashed seats
Bus filled with students from Weston Collegiate was sliced in half in the crash, strewing Highway 400 with twisted metal and smashed seats
1/25/1979
The tractor-trailer involved in the 33-vehicle crash on Highway 400 Sunday, its steel frame twisted by the intense heat of burning cars, was barred, u(...)
The tractor-trailer involved in the 33-vehicle crash on Highway 400 Sunday, its steel frame twisted by the intense heat of burning cars, was barred, u(...)
3/20/1973
A passenger from the bus involved in the crash on Highway 400, Rhonwyn Evans, 15, of New Liskeard, is greeted in Toronto by a cousin, nurse Susan White
A passenger from the bus involved in the crash on Highway 400, Rhonwyn Evans, 15, of New Liskeard, is greeted in Toronto by a cousin, nurse Susan White
3/18/1973
Barrie - The driver of a bus ripped apart by a tanker truck in a Highway 400 crash that killed four Weston Collegiate students has been convicted of c(...)
Barrie - The driver of a bus ripped apart by a tanker truck in a Highway 400 crash that killed four Weston Collegiate students has been convicted of c(...)
6/1/1979
Rear axle of bus lies next to crumpled cab of tanker truck as emergency workers examine Highway 400 crash scene
Rear axle of bus lies next to crumpled cab of tanker truck as emergency workers examine Highway 400 crash scene
1/25/1979
A west hill couple, Barbara and John Christie, feared they'd be killed in Sunday's accident on Highway 400
A west hill couple, Barbara and John Christie, feared they'd be killed in Sunday's accident on Highway 400
3/19/1973
Accidents - Motor - 1973, March 18 - 400 Highway
Accidents - Motor - 1973, March 18 - 400 Highway
10/1/1973
A six-foot model of the accident on Highway 400 March 18 in which 12 people were killed is being used by witnesses before a coroner's jury in Barrie. (...)
A six-foot model of the accident on Highway 400 March 18 in which 12 people were killed is being used by witnesses before a coroner's jury in Barrie. (...)
10/1/1973
Accidents - Motor - 1973, March 18 - 400 Highway
Accidents - Motor - 1973, March 18 - 400 Highway
3/18/1973
The scene outside Sunnybrook Medical Centre - one of several Metro hospitals to which today's worst-injured school bus crash victims were airlifted
The scene outside Sunnybrook Medical Centre - one of several Metro hospitals to which today's worst-injured school bus crash victims were airlifted
1/25/1979
Close call: Joyce and Dr. John McClintock's garage was smashed when wheels flew of a box car. Cars tumbled down the rail right of way just a few metres from their home
Close call: Joyce and Dr. John McClintock's garage was smashed when wheels flew of a box car. Cars tumbled down the rail right of way just a few metres from their home
1/3/1990
Bus crash casualty is transferred to an ambulance at Sunnybrook
Bus crash casualty is transferred to an ambulance at Sunnybrook
1/25/1979