This 1925 photo from the Grand Rapids Museum Collection shows a crash that took place on Nagel Avenue in then Wyoming Township. According to the The Street Railways of Grand Rapids: Horsecars, Cable Cars, Steam Dummies, Electric Streetcars, by Carl Jay Bajema and Tom Maas, Sixteen-year-old Harry Bos drove his auto carrying him and his fifteen-year-old friend Albert Boone onto the Holland interurban track at the Nagel Avenue crossing. At the same time, the interurban train cross Nagel Avenue and hit the car, pushing it almost 200 feet down the track before the interurban train could stop. Both Bos and his friend died from their injuries. The Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, and Muskegon Railway Company operated from 1902 to 1928, although much of the line was closed by 1926.
