Accession Num: 2014.018.2304
Negative Code: S1156-26
Extent:
Document Date: 1983-07-15 - --
Donors: Denis Stanley
Creators: Denis Stanley
Keywords: 1980s, accidents, automobiles, fire, Highway 6, Summit Lake tanker fire (1983), and tanker truck
Locations: Nakusp
Physical Description:
1 b/w negative (35 mm)
Notes:
A tanker truck carrying 48,700 litres of gasoline burns on Highway 6 along the Summit Lake S-curves, 15 July 1983. Driver Clarence Docker of Calgary had swerved to avoid a pickup truck travelling in the wrong lane, causing the tank to rupture and catch fire.