Skidding on bridge ends in hair-breadth escape

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Skidding on bridge ends in hair-breadth escape

Date1/17/1931

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

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Skidding on bridge ends in hair-breadth escape
Skidding on bridge ends in hair-breadth escape. Above - view of Don bridge Gerrard St. E., showing where section of the guard rail was carried away by a car driven by Jack Zeran, 286 Mortimer St., when it skidded to edge of the bridge and only stopping when front wheels were hanging over the side of a hundred-foot drop. Neither the driver nor his two passengers suffered injury.

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Original Toronto Star caption: Skidding on bridge ends in hair-breadth escape. Above - view of Don bridge Gerrard St. E., showing where section of the guard rail was carried away by a car driven by Jack Zeran, 286 Mortimer St., when it skidded to edge of the bridge and only stopping when front wheels were hanging over the side of a hundred-foot drop. Neither the driver nor his two passengers suffered injury.

Subject

Bridges

Medium

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0109626F

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