From the Ottawa Citizen 18 November 1960
CAROLE JONES
Fast Dayliner Kills Girl, 6
Six-year-old
Carole Callan Jones, of 205 Island Park Drive, was killed about 4 p.m.
yesterday when struck by a fast-moving CPR dayliner at a level crossing
on Island Park Drive just north of Scott. Street.
A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Jones, she died of head injuries in Civic Hospital some 3 1/2 hours after the accident.
A
spokesman for the Champlain Home Owners' Association said the dayliner
was travelling at 60 miles an hour but a CPR spokesman stated the speed
was 40.
Heard Screeching Of Brakes
The allegation was made by J.
R. Anderson, executive officer of the Champlain Home Owners'
Association, who lives at 276 Island Park Drive. Mrs. Anderson heard
the sudden screeching of the train's brakes and went out to see the
little girl dying.
The CPR spokesman said it has definitely been established that the speed of the train at the time of the accident was 40 m.p.h.
He
said the intersection is a protected crossing. The bells were ringing
and the lights were on and there was a school patrol on the spot at the
time.
City Stymied
The city has exhausted every possible means to have train speeds at level crossings reduced. Alderman Murray Heit said today.
Alderman
Heit, chairman of the civic trains speed committee, said that last
August he, with city solicitor Gordon Medcalf, appeared before a board
of railway transport commissioners appealing for a speed of 45 m.p.h.
at level crossings.
He said the railways were adamant in their
refusal to cut speed at level crossings. They held trains were on
schedule and speeds could not be reduced and schedules maintained. The
board of railway transport commissioners rejected the city's
application for reduced train speeds.
The youngster was on her way
home from Hilson Avenue School when hit by the onrushing east-bound
train. Among the first at the scene was her mother, who had come to
meet her with a car.
Crossed Safely Once
Directed by a school
patrol at Scott Street, Carole had just made one safe crossing of the
tracks when her mother passed her in the auto.
The girl was struck
as she tried to recross the tracks to join her mother, who was busy
parking the car on Patricia Avenue near Scott Street.
Mrs. Jones did not witness the accident.
Engineer
Dalbert Payne, of 151 Spadina Avenue, vainly applied the brakes when
the youngster suddenly appeared in front of the train. It stopped 725
feet east of the crossing.
Whistle Blew
Conductor Clyde Taman,
of 638 Gilmour Street, said the train whistle was blowing as it neared
the crossing, which is guarded by flashing red "wigwag" signals.
Born in Ottawa, Carole was in Grade One at Hilson Avenue School. Her mother is the former LeNor Callan.
Besides her parents she leaves a brother, Craig, 17, and a sister, Brenda, 15, both students at Fisher Park High School.
Mr. Jones is vice-president and general manager of R. A.Beamish Stores Company Limited
From the Ottawa Citizen 13 December 1960.
Jury Attaches No Blame In Girl's Train Death
Six-year-old
Carol Callan Jones was wearing a fur-lined hood over her head when she
was killed by a CPR dayliner November 17, a coroner's jury was told
last night.
"I don't believe she ever heard or saw me," said engineer Delmer Payne, of 153 Spadina Avenue.
A
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jones, 205 Island Park Drive, Carol was
struck at the crossing on Island Park Drive north of Scott Street. She
died a few hours later in Civic Hospital
Attach No Blame
Last
night's jury attached no blame in the fatality. Like some other recent
juries, though, it called for a reduction of train speeds in the city
to "the speed limit for other vehicles".
Engineer Payne testified
his engine was travelling at 40 miles per hour as he approached the
crossing, sounding his horn and warning bell from a quarter-mile away.
Inside
the city, he said, engineers have instructions not to exceed 45 miles
per hour. At some crossings, lower speeds are specified, he added.
Evidence was that the wigwag warning signals at the crossing were also working at the time of the accident.
Recrosses Tracks
Sgt
Kingsle'y Ackland of the Ottawa police said the girl had already made
one safe crossing of the tracks on her way home from Hilson Avenue
School.
She was struck as she re-crossed the tracks to rejoin a
school patrol on Scott Street, where her mother had arranged to meet
her with a car.
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