Accession Num: 2014.018.2305
Negative Code: S1156-27
Extent:
Document Date: 1983-07-15 - --
Donors: Denis Stanley
Creators: Denis Stanley
Keywords: 1980s, accidents, automobiles, Docker; Clarence, fire, Highway 6, Summit Lake tanker fire (1983), and tanker truck
Locations: Summit Lake
Physical Description:
1 b/w negative (35 mm)
Notes:
Clarence Docker of Calgary talks to a police officer while Docker's tanker truck filled with 48,700 litres of gasoline burns on Highway 6 along the Summit Lake S-curves, 15 July 1983. Docker of Calgary had swerved to avoid a pickup truck travelling in the wrong lane, causing the tank to rupture and catch fire.