In the crash, Callew was struck and pinned by the steering wheel. It was a little more than a decade later before American car makers introduced collapsible steering columns to prevent this his sort of injury.
Stephen King said his short story, "Autopsy Room Four", was inspired by this episode. A clip therefrom was shown in its adaptation Autopsy Room Four (2006).
Callew's car is a 1955 Lincoln Capri convertible.