Our hearts go out this week to the Martin family of RR 2, Kenilworth whose 11-year-old son, Landis, died as a result of injuries sustained in a buggy/truck collision last week.
Our hearts also go out to the 19-year-old pickup driver, Benjamin Peters of RR 3, Conn and his family. They will forever have to live with the consequences of the collision.
The same is to be said of the unidentified driver of a vehicle that hit a buggy on Sligo Road West prior to Christmas. The buggy driver, Onias Weber was injured in that collision when a vehicle rear-ended it in front of Wellington Heights Secondary School.  For an unknown reason, police did not issue the name of the driver involved or give any reasons why the collision occurred. The accident this week, west of Kenilworth, occurred when the teenaged truck driver “did not see the horse and buggy ahead and struck the rear of the buggy,” according to police.
There has been a lot of speculation about why the driver’s name was not announced in the accident prior to Christmas, or a reason for the accident given. That speculation will once again rear its head with this latest collision in which the 19-year-old’s name was part of the initial press release.  Probably everyone knows who the driver was in the Sligo Road accident – it is a small town, after all – and by not providing all of the information stories have probably been incorrectly embellished. And, name or no name, we are sympathetic to both the driver of the vehicle and the buggy driver who was injured.
As for the accident last week that had Highway 6 near Quality Homes closed for several hours, The Confederate has no details. When a press release didn’t arrive, Media Relations Officer Mark Cloes was contacted. He confirmed two vehicles were involved, and two people were taken to hospital, but had no other information. He said that, in the case of a traffic accident, the investigating officer has two weeks to complete his or her report. Therefore the information is sometimes dated by the time it reaches the media relations officer for him to pass on to the press.
Again, this being a small town, most people probably already know who was in the accident and have heard reports that the two injured people are okay.