This Day in History: 1958-08-04

Fourteen-year-old Huguette Gosselin visited the community to thank all those who were so kind to her when she had been seriously injured in one of Route 17’s most serious accidents. She was a passenger in a car on July 4, 1953 which collided with a truck turning into Moore’s Terminal in Mahwah. Four of the seven in the car, including Huguette’s sister Diane, 7, were killed. She suffered fractures of both legs and a severely crushed pelvis and remained in traction at The Good Samaritan Hospital for six weeks. During her confinement she remained cheerful and friendly to all who came to see her, even though she could not speak any English at the time. She was passing through the community on her way to a Jehovah’s Witness Assembly in New York with her father as they had in 1953. (Bristow)