Gruesome photos of 1960s car accidents reminds reader of newspaper cutting

Steve Blackett, who himself runs a garage on the Nestfield Industrial Estate in Darlington, has the scrapbook he compiled when he was a child, and it includes lots of happy cuttings, but also some of accidents, both road and rail.

• Paper boy: "The day I spotted dad's wrecked car on the front page of The Northern Echo"

This vehicle, and sadly its occupant, did not fare very well in this collision with a telegraph pole.

We thought at first it took place in Chem Street, but then we released that the 'I' had dropped out of the chemist's shop name in the background.