One person was killed instantaneously and three others were injured when a tractor trailer and a passenger car collided 1.2 miles west of the Kent-Elgin county line about 5 p.m. Damage was estimated at $10,000.
The accident occurred at the same spot where two cars collided head-on July 29 sending six Essex Count persons to the hospital.
Dead is Joseph Angst, 70, of Green Bay, Wis., driver of the car.
In satisfactory condition are his wife, Marion, 66, with contusion to the left leg, lacerations, ad shock; his sister, Mrs. Anna Kirschner, 67, of Sheboygan, Wis., with a concussion, injuries to the left temple, and shock.
Driver of the truck, Leo Bechard, 23, of 232 Park St., Chatham, was treated for leg injuries and released. The trailer owned by the Howard James Co., of Blenheim, was returning unloaded to the fruit and vegetable market company.
The transport was headed westbound and the car eastbound. point of impact was established 12 feet south of the centerline, on the south edge of the road.
The accident occurred on the controversial 13 mile stretch of two-lane highway west of Chatham, the last section of the Macdonnald-Cartier Freeway not open to four-lane traffic west of Gananoque. Charles McNaughton, Ontario minister of highways, estimated at a service centre opening last week that it would be completed by the first of next week.
Construction workers are making final pourings today at the access to the Highgate Townline. The two-lane portion of the highway, which has gained notoriety because of its high accident rate has taken twenty lives in 61 accidents. It has been shortened year by year as construction progressed.
The accident left the two vehicles mangled on the meridian, 316 feet apart. The transport jack-knifed and came to rest along the trough in the centre of the meridian with the cab wheels torn off, 215 feet west of the collision point.
The death car stopped 100 feet east of the point of impact, with its
back tires resting on the edge of the completed other lane. Arbour's
ambulance transported the injured to Chatham. The body is at the
morgue. Constable Lex Gibson, of Chatham OPP, is investigating.