Talk:James Leroy Bondsteel

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I take it this was yet another article copied and pasted from a PD source, and I likely won't have the time in the foreseeable future to do the research myself. Regarding his death, the Knick (sic) Bridge (actually, which one?) and Houston, Alaska are two different places. They would all fit within the description of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, but there would still be considerable physical distance.RadioKAOS (talk) 13:30, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Since all that was done to rectify the problem was to change "Knick" to "Knik, I suppose it's up to me to dig a little deeper. From Enge, Marilee (April 11, 1987). "Knik bridge fatality reenacts earlier one". Anchorage Daily News. p. A1.:

"A freak automobile accident killed a Houston man on the Knik River Bridge Thursday, tragically reenacting another fatal collision at the same place six months ago. James Bondsteel, of Houston, was killed when his compact car was hit by a runaway trailer full of birch logs on the narrow bridge that crosses the Knik River where it meets Knik Arm."

There is not only more than one bridge across the Knik River, but more than one vehicular bridge. Without access to further details, I'm guessing this to be the bridge where the Glenn Highway crosses the Knik River. Any bridge across the Knik River is a significant distance away from Houston (Wasilla sits in between the two places). The available information indicates that Houston was Bondsteel's place of residence at the time of his death, not his place of death, so I'm changing that.

The article refers to a previous, similar, accident. At that time, leaving Anchorage, the divided portion of the Glenn Highway ended in the flats just beyond the Eklutna interchange. This meant that this spot was a two-lane road, and rather heavily traveled for a two-lane road at that. There were lots of accidents at that spot back then. I had a job at the time which required travel up and down the Parks Highway. This spot always spooked me. During this job and associated travel, which would have been about two or three years after Bondsteel's death, I came upon an accident and rendered assistance. One of the people involved was Hank Bartos, a retired Air Force colonel and a well-known businessman and politician in Fairbanks. Bartos survived his accident, but rather seriously injured his arm/shoulder/collarbone when he jumped off the bridge in order to avoid an oncoming vehicle which didn't notice or couldn't see that there was an accident up ahead.

In other words, that was a very nasty spot in general. The State of Alaska finally extended the divided highway to the Parks Highway intersection (and later built an interchange there, which in conjunction with other improvements created a continuous freeway between Anchorage and Wasilla), which made the problem go away.RadioKAOS (talk) 23:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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