Accident involving a bus and train at Toronto, August 1944.
Accidents, prangs and crashes: Part 3
. As a career fireman, transport collector Ken Magor naturally accumulated many photographs of accidents and disasters. Here are some more tales of vehicular tragedy and misadventure from our Ken Magor archive. August 16, 1944: The photograph above shows the aftermath of an accident between a bus and train at a level-crossing at Carey Street, Toronto. It was the third smash at the same level crossing in six years. There had previously been gates at the crossing, but these were removed - much to the horror of Lake Macquarie Shire Council, which protested regularly against the…