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| - Avenue Road is a major north-south street in Toronto, Ontario. It officially begins downtown at Bloor Street, just north of the Royal Ontario Museum. It ends at Highway 401 in the northern part of Toronto proper. In Dark Knight: The Second Chapter, Don Schanke borrows Nick Knight's car from the police garage without permission, not knowing that Nick is actually hiding in the trunk, having been caught out of doors at dawn. At some point after that, Schanke would have had to turn north—there are several possible roads he might have chosen—and driven at least as far north as St. Clair Avenue West.
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| - Avenue Road is a major north-south street in Toronto, Ontario. It officially begins downtown at Bloor Street, just north of the Royal Ontario Museum. It ends at Highway 401 in the northern part of Toronto proper. In Dark Knight: The Second Chapter, Don Schanke borrows Nick Knight's car from the police garage without permission, not knowing that Nick is actually hiding in the trunk, having been caught out of doors at dawn. Schanke's first stop is the hospital, where he makes enquiries about the activities of the bloodmobile, which has been taking donations from homeless people, some of whom have been murdered. His questions rouse concerns in Donald Fenner, the technician who has been committing the murders. Fenner therefore sabotages the brakes on the car. When he leaves the hospital, duty done, Schanke heads north, up and around Queen's Park Crescent East. Sometime thereafter, the brakes fail as he is driving south down Avenue Road. Since he starts out by driving north and ends up driving south, Schanke has clearly been taking a circuitous route. However, this is consistent with his stated intention to just drive around in the car for a while, enjoying the feel of the ride. Avenue Road is actually a continuation of University Avenue, linked to it via Queen's Park and Queen's Park Crescent East and West to form a single through route (formerly Highway 11A). Since Schanke starts north on University Avenue from the hospital, and is seen driving north around Queen's Park Circle, it is unlikely that he continued directly north onto Queen's Park—a short stretch of road where the two crescents recombine and run north past the Royal Ontario Museum, after which the street is renamed again and becomes Avenue Road. If he'd done that, Schanke would have been driving north on Avenue Road; and he's definitely driving south when he had the accident. More likely, Schanke continued round Queen's Park Circle at its north end, where the two crescents are linked to make a complete anticlockwise loop around the park. Almost immediately, he would have turned off west onto Hoskin Avenue, which runs through the downtown campus of the University of Toronto. At some point after that, Schanke would have had to turn north—there are several possible roads he might have chosen—and driven at least as far north as St. Clair Avenue West. Schanke then drove a few blocks back in an easterly direction to turn south onto Avenue Road, thus completing a loop. (Perhaps he felt that he'd taken enough time on his little jaunt and was heading back to work.) The accident occurred on the steepest part of a hill that starts a little south of St. Clair and ends north of Dupont Street.
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