More than half a century ago, tragedy touched the schoolboy Barrie Cassidy and a young doctor named Harry Frydenberg.
The article mentioned he had worked night shift in a country telephone exchange when he was a schoolboy, and how his most frantic night followed a crash between a bus and a truck on the Hume Highway which had caused multiple fatalities.Josh Frydenberg, astonished at the previously unknown conjunction of events in the lives of his father and Cassidy long before he was born, arranged for a meeting over lunch. Having written the article that brought the connection to light, I went along too.
Cassidy was earning his keep by looking after the telephone exchange at night so he could continue attending high school during the day. Out on the road Harry Frydenberg, piloting his seven-year-old EK Holden, was the first on a scene of smoking chaos. “All the seats had concertinaed and the passengers’ legs had been fractured. We used the crowbars to lever the seats apart and to pull them out, with the passengers still caught in the seats.Credit:“There was a lot of blood about the place and all the rest of it. I started binding up the fractures and the wounds and used the seats as sort of stretchers.”was headlined “Young Doctor is Hero: Saved gravely injured in 4-death crash”.
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