Memorial trees preserved in Highway 3 expansion [Video]

A memorial stone and oak trees have been protected from excavation along the corridor where the two-lane highway is expanding to four in Kingsville.

Two oak trees were planted and a monument installed at the foot of Cameron Side Road, in memory of two young men who died in a collision on Highway 3 in October 1990.

“It’s been 34 years. I still think about that day,” Steve Cowell told CTV News.

His friends, Shane O’Brien and Peter Taves, both 20, died when their car collided with a transport truck.

“They were going to the University of Windsor because they were commuting from home every day,” Cowell explained.

“A bus pulled out in front of them. So, they decided they were going to swerve around the bus to miss it. And of course, there was a transport truck in the other lane.”

Cowell described them as “the best of friends” …