"Accidents" found 112 records

Interview with Elsie Ansdell by Eric Damer September 18, 2012 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1927-1938

Length: 0:08:14

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell's early memories of recreational activities and daily life as a young person in Burnaby (activities include swimming, skating and going to the movies). She mentions Frank Walsh's Garage and discusses photographs of Brown-John Truc…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the recording pertains to Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell's early memories of recreational activities and daily life as a young person in Burnaby (activities include swimming, skating and going to the movies). She mentions Frank Walsh's Garage and discusses photographs of Brown-John Trucking, "the blasting stump" and Burns Acreage.

Date Range: 1927-1938

Photo Info: Elsie Brown-John (bottom, far right) with her class at Kitchener Street School, [1936]. Item no. 549-001.

Length: 0:08:14

Subjects: Recreational Activities - Swimming

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Interviewer: Damer, Eric

Interview Date: September 18, 2012

Scope and Content: Recording is an interview with early Burnaby resident Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell conducted by Burnaby Village Museum employee Eric Damer, September 18, 2012. Major themes discussed are: settling in Burnaby and the early years of the Brown-John family.

Biographical Notes: Elsie (Brown-John) Ansdell’s father, a trained carpenter and cabinet maker, Victor Brown-John came to Canada from Wales in 1910. He cleared three lots at Napier and Gilmore Streets and built a two-roomed house. In 1912, he was joined by his wife and two eldest sons, Victor and Archie. Twin boys, Frank and Roy, were born in 1914 in the Burnaby home and their fifth son, Clive, was born in 1915. From 1916 to 1919 Victor John-Brown left Burnaby to serve overseas. Elsie Brown-John (later Ansdell) was born in 1921. Her younger brother, Gwyn "Jerry" was born in 1923. In 1925 Victor Brown-John suffered a fatal accident while working as a longshoreman in Northern British Columbia. Elsie attended Kitchener Elementary and North Burnaby High School. She married during the Second World War and moved to South Burnaby to raise her family whilst continuing to work in various department stores both in Vancouver and Burnaby.

Total Tracks: 4

Total Length: 33:02

Interviewee Name: Ansdell, Elsie Brown-John

Interview Location: Burnaby Village Museum

Interviewer Bio: Eric Damer is a lifelong British Columbian born in Victoria, raised in Kamloops, and currently residing in Burnaby. After studying philosophy at the University of Victoria, he became interested in the educational forces that had shaped his own life. He completed master’s and doctoral degrees in educational studies at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in the history of adult and higher education in the province. In 2012, Eric worked for the City of Burnaby as a field researcher and writer, conducting interviews for the City Archives and Museum Oral History Program.

Collection/Fonds: Community Heritage Commission Special Projects fonds

Series: Burna-Boom Oral History Project series

Transcript Available: None

Media Type: Sound Recording

Images

Elsie Brown-John (bottom, far right) with her class at Kitchener Street School, [1936]. Item no. 549-001. thumbnail

Audio Tracks

Track four of recording of interview with Elsie Ansdell

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Legal documents

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1953

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Scope and Content: File contains legal documents (mainly police reports) pertaining to a Burnaby Lake Interurban Accident July 12, 1953. Includes two scale drawings of Gilmore Avenue and the British Columbia Electric Railway crossing in relation to the accident.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1953

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Donald N. Brown subseries

Physical Description: 1 file of textual records

Description Level: File

Record No.: MSS148-002

Access Restriction: Subject to FOIPPA

Reproduction Restriction: Reproductions subject to FOIPPA

Accession Number: BHS2003-04

Scope and Content: File contains legal documents (mainly police reports) pertaining to a Burnaby Lake Interurban Accident July 12, 1953. Includes two scale drawings of Gilmore Avenue and the British Columbia Electric Railway crossing in relation to the accident.

Media Type: Textual Record

Notes: Title based on contents of file

Leila Orman subseries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1918-1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and other materials

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of manuscripts written by Leila Orman as well as paintings, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, hymn books and correspondence.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1918-1976

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Leila Orman subseries

Physical Description: Textual records and other materials

Description Level: Subseries

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of manuscripts written by Leila Orman as well as paintings, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, hymn books and correspondence.

History: A. Leila Orman was born June 2, 1901 in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. She is the youngest daughter of Daisy Marie Orman, her sister Daisy Hilda Orman (later Targett) being three and a half years her senior. At five years old Leila began a long fight with a crippling type of rheumatoid arthritis. By the time she was thirteen, she experienced completely ankylosed joints. Her family travelled all over hoping to find a cure, but to no avail. In 1913 her father joined his two brothers in Calgary, and by 1915 the family had joined him. Leila developed an interest in painting and knitting, and composed her own poems. She began writing news articles for the Calgary Daily Herald in the 1930s, and her first sonnet was published in that paper on August 28, 1934. She had a strong interest in the arts, often writing about music and the visual arts. While living in Calgary, she became a member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club as well as a member of the Canadian Author’s Association. When her father retired in 1938, the family moved to Rosewood Avenue in Burnaby. Leila wrote on a typewriter with two sticks to type out the letters. She was an avid reader and was able to turn the pages with a special stick with elastic bands wound around the ends. Canadian novelist Maida Parlow French became her lifelong friend and encouraged her to write her own autobiography, but she was not able to finish it. Leila wrote “The Giving Heart” in October of 1948. By 1952, she was writing the "Across the Board" column for the British Columbia Saturday Magazine with the intention of inspiring other “incapacitated folk” to live up to their full potential: “If [she] could reach a few people, and encourage them to reach up and out, [she] should feel the effort well worthwhile.” A member of the St. Alban’s Prayer Healing Fellowship group, Leila wrote the “Christian Manifesto for World Peace” in 1963. The Prayer Group met twice monthly at one of the members’ homes and undertook to pray daily for the sick and for world peace. After Leila’s mother died in 1955, Leila’s friend Jeanie Brown kept house for her and was her constant companion. Jeanie Brown and Leila lived together for over thirteen years until an accident sent Leila to hospital and later to nursing home where she died on February 16, 1976.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Orman, A. Leila

Notes: MSS104 and PC506; Title based on content of subseries

Morris family subseries

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription90

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1942

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Subseries

Physical Description: 3 photographs

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs of the Dr. Morris family and home at Marine Drive and Boundary Road.

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: May 1942

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Morris family subseries

Physical Description: 3 photographs

Description Level: Subseries

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1992-08

Scope and Content: Subseries consists of photographs of the Dr. Morris family and home at Marine Drive and Boundary Road.

History: Wesley Gardiner Morris was born in Summerside Prince Edward Island in 1884; his wife Laura Maude Weegar was born in Maxville, Ontario in 1886. Wesley graduated from McGill University in 1914, becoming a doctor, and received a gold medal in Chemistry. The couple was married in Maxville, Ontario in 1914 and lived in their first home in Chauvin, Alberta before moving to Burnaby in 1916. They lived on Imperial Street until their new home at 4265 Trafalgar Street (now 4241 Maywood Street) was built. Dr. Wesley Morris practiced medicine at his office at the corner of Kingsway and Sussex in part of Miss George’s Drugstore. During and following the Depression years, Dr. Morris was often paid in kind by his patients or they would pay off their bills by assisting with jobs around the family home. The couple lived in the home on Trafalgar Street raising their six daughters: Margaret, Betty, Dorothy, Jessie, Gertrude and Muriel until the Depression when they were forced to sell their home and move to ‘the ranch’ on Marine Drive. The ranch covered 13 acres of property on either side of Marine Drive from Boundary Road east including a ravine with a creek. Dr. Morris was known for his skill in setting fractures and due to his expertise he was called to an accident in the 1940s at the McMillan Bloedel mill on the Fraser River. Except for Gertrude (Ramage) all of their daughters graduated from Burnaby South High School. Following graduation from high school, Margaret (Sheldon) completed a business course, while both Betty (Purrot) and Dorothy (Johston) became nurses. Jessie (Hunter) joined the R.C.A.F. and after learning Morse code was posted to communications. Gertrude taught piano lessons and later received her real estate license. All of the girls were married in the 1950s and moved away from the property on Marine Drive with the exception of Muriel who was still in high school. Laura suddenly took ill in 1945 and died. Soon after her passing, Wesley purchased a lot at 4648 Marine Drive (DL 175) and built a small two bedroom home for himself and daughter Muriel. The old family home was rented, then sold, and later demolished around 1980. Dr. Wesley Morris died in 1960 and was buried alongside his wife Laura at Ocean View Memorial Cemetery in Burnaby. After her father died, Muriel continued to live in the small house later marrying Tom Di Guistini who settled there with her. Tom died in 1981 just two years before Muriel’s retirement as the secretary of Magee Secondary School in Vancouver. Soon after retirement, Muriel sold their home on Marine Drive and moved to a condominium near Central Park.

Media Type: Textual Record; Photograph

Creator: Morris, Dr. Wesley Gardier; Morris, Laura Maude Weegar

Notes: Title based on contents of subseries; PC278

Motor Vehicle Accident Enquiries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 29094

Meeting Date: 1-Dec-1969

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 77

Item No.: 3

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 29094

Meeting Date: 1-Dec-1969

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 77

Item No.: 3

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 29094

1-Dec-1969 Meeting Minutes

Motor Vehicle Accidents and Insurance Enquiries

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 28168

Meeting Date: 20-Jan-1969

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 3

Item No.: 2

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 28168

Meeting Date: 20-Jan-1969

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 3

Item No.: 2

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 28168

20-Jan-1969 Meeting Minutes

Old Second Narrows Bridge

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.7 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the first Second Narrows Bridge over the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, BC. The centre span of the bridge is missing due to a barge accident in 1930 which knocked the span off its supports.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Photographs subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 12.2 x 17.7 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 011-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the first Second Narrows Bridge over the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, BC. The centre span of the bridge is missing due to a barge accident in 1930 which knocked the span off its supports.

Subjects: Structures - Bridges

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Continuation of title..."with span out around 1932"; Annotated at bottom: "Old Second Narrows Bridge with span out around 1932"

Images

Old Second Narrows Bridge, [1932] thumbnail

Plane crash on frozen lake

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17.5 x 25.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the aftermath of a small plane crash near Quesnel. A group of people can be seen standing around the wreckage, which is still smoking. The aircraft belonged to well-known B.C. aviator, Ginger Coote.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1932]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Peers family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.5 x 4.5 cm on page 17.5 x 25.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 020-165

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS2007-04

Scope and Content: Photograph of the aftermath of a small plane crash near Quesnel. A group of people can be seen standing around the wreckage, which is still smoking. The aircraft belonged to well-known B.C. aviator, Ginger Coote.

Subjects: Accidents; Transportation - Air; Natural Phenomena - Snow

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption accompanying photograph

Images

Plane crash on frozen lake, [1932] thumbnail

Public Liability and Employer's Liability Insurance Renewel With Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corpoartion Ltd.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport74134

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80675

Meeting Date: 27-Mar-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80675

Meeting Date: 27-Mar-1916

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 80675

27-Mar-1916 Meeting Minutes

Public Liability Insurance and Employer's Liability Insurance placed with Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80068

Meeting Date: 12-Apr-1915

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 80068

Meeting Date: 12-Apr-1915

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 80068

12-Apr-1915 Meeting Minutes

Rail crossing at Government and Cariboo

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96183

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2006]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w

Scope and Content: Photograph of the rail crossing at the intersection of Government Street and Cariboo Road. Two cars are passing on the road and the opposite directions of traffic are separated by a barrier on the road.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2006]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 1 photograph (tiff) : b&w

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 535-1880

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of the rail crossing at the intersection of Government Street and Cariboo Road. Two cars are passing on the road and the opposite directions of traffic are separated by a barrier on the road.

Subjects: Transportation - Rail; Geographic Features - Roads; Transportation - Automobiles

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a January 2006 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata: "An accident involving a car and a train last summer has prompted the installation of barriers at the rail crossing at Government and Cariboo to prevent cars from jumping the line to beat the crossing arms."

Geographic Access: Government Street; Cariboo Road

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Images

Rail crossing at Government and Cariboo, [2006] thumbnail

RCMP Accident Reports

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 19525

Meeting Date: 29-Apr-1974

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 33

Item No.: 6

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 19525

Meeting Date: 29-Apr-1974

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 33

Item No.: 6

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 19525

29-Apr-1974 Meeting Minutes

Request for Delegates to the Union of BC Municipalities to Press for Amendment to the Municipal Act to Make Municipal Corporations Responsible re Damage Resulting from Accidents to Persons on Wooden Sidewalks

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 58470

Meeting Date: 17-Sep-1928

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 58470

Meeting Date: 17-Sep-1928

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 58470

17-Sep-1928 Meeting Minutes

Request re Accident to Mrs. Rush on Sprott Street

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 59614

Meeting Date: 8-May-1922

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 59614

Meeting Date: 8-May-1922

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 59614

8-May-1922 Meeting Minutes

Search and Rescue at Burnaby Lake

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96941

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: File contains photographs relating to the search and rescue for a man missing in Burnaby Lake after a boat accident. Photographs depict unidentified family members at the pavilion and Burnaby RCMP and Coquitlam Search and Rescue workers in a boat on Burnaby Lake.

1 image

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2001]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Description Level: File

Record No.: 535-2496

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: File contains photographs relating to the search and rescue for a man missing in Burnaby Lake after a boat accident. Photographs depict unidentified family members at the pavilion and Burnaby RCMP and Coquitlam Search and Rescue workers in a boat on Burnaby Lake.

Subjects: Emergency Services - Ambulance Services; Public Services - Policing; Geographic Features - Lakes and Ponds

Names: Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a June 2001 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata for 535-2496-1: "The family of a New Westminster man missing in Burnaby Lake keep a vigil at the boat pavillion as RCMP and Coquitlam Search and Rescue scour the water and shoreline."; Caption from metadata for 535-2496-2: "Burnaby RCMP and Coquitlam Search and Rescue launch a search on Burnaby Lake for a New Westminster man reported missing after a boat mishap early Sunday."

Geographic Access: Burnaby Lake

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Images

Search and Rescue at Burnaby Lake, [2001] thumbnail

SFU Mock Accident

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport5128

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 62031

Meeting Date: 8-Mar-1999

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 62031

Meeting Date: 8-Mar-1999

Format: Council - Committee Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 62031

8-Mar-1999 Meeting Minutes

Speaker Kevin Brooks at Alpha Secondary School

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96562

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2005]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of speaker Kevin Brooks at Alpha Secondary School for a presentation about the dangers of impaired driving. Photographs depict Brooks with grade 10 students Keenan Werts and Craig Farrell and speaking in front of a crowd of students seated in the gymnasium.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [2005]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection

Physical Description: 2 photographs (tiff) : col.

Description Level: File

Record No.: 535-2184

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No restrictions

Accession Number: 2018-12

Scope and Content: File contains photographs of speaker Kevin Brooks at Alpha Secondary School for a presentation about the dangers of impaired driving. Photographs depict Brooks with grade 10 students Keenan Werts and Craig Farrell and speaking in front of a crowd of students seated in the gymnasium.

Subjects: Persons - Students; Events

Names: Alpha Secondary School

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Bartel, Mario

Notes: Title based on caption; Collected by editorial for use in a March 2005 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader; Caption from metadata for 535-2184-1: "Kevin Brooks speaks with Keenan Werts and Craig Farrell, Grade 10 students at Alpha Secondary, after his presentation about the dangers of drunk driving. Brooks lost the use of his legs, and his best friend was killed, in an accident caused by impaired driving."; Caption from metadata for 535-2184-2: "Kevin Brooks speaks to students at Alpha Secondary School about the dangers of drunk driving. He lost the use of his legs, and his best friend was killed, in an accident caused by impaired driving."