This story is taken from the August 18, 1927 edition of the Princeton (Similkameen) Star newspaper. The photo is courtesy of the Goodfellow family collection.
“Two motor accidents happened in Princeton the first of the week. One early Monday evening at the Tulameen bridge north of town and the other at the south end at the Similkameen Bridge later the same night, or rather about 2:30 Tuesday morning. Incidentally, both were this season’s model (1928) Nash sedans.
The approaches to both Bridges from the outside are on rather nasty curves and require careful navigating. In the present instance, while there may have been some recklessness in one case the accident to Mr. Moore, who was driving a car belonging to Charlie Hunter, and with which he was unused, appears to have the largely the result of over cautiousness. Crossing the bridge he made such a wide curve that he found it necessary to swing inward rather quickly in order to avoid missing the end of a culvert which crosses the road at that point. Unused to the steering gear, he failed to straighten out the wheels before those on the right hand side went over the bank. The car was thrown on its side and slid down the bank which is quite Steep and about 25 ft deep at that point. The damage to the car was mostly to the paint, a badly crumpled hood, Broken sun shield and slightly bent axle. strangely no glass was broken and Mr Moore escaped without a scratch.
After being righted the car was taken across the river and to the garage under its own power.
The other accident happened to Adne Alstrom who was driving the family car alone, and was returning to the dance in the Orange Hall after a spin up the Allenby Road about 2:30 a.m.
Apparently losing control coming down the hill he was unable to make the sharp turn onto the bridge; the car grazed the heavy timbers at the bridge end and after turning completely over came to rest in about 4 ft of water in the riverbed some 20 ft below. It was fortunate that the car rested right side up, otherwise the occupant, badly dazed from cuts on the back of the head, would have been submerged, possibly with fatal results. A crowd was quickly at the scene of the accident as Mr. Alstrom was taken to the hospital for treatment. He was able to leave for home yesterday. The car was badly wrecked.”