[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6447]

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma passed a bloody milestone Thursday and the tragic end is not in sight. Oklahoma's highway toll now stand at 502 and unless death takes a holiday, a new road fatality record will be set before the bells toll out the old year and bring in the new. The record was set in 1936 - the year before the highway patrol was organized - when 685 persons died on Oklahoma highway. When that record was set, Oklahoma citizens damanded that something be doneto stop the carange. The answer … continued below

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Creator: Unknown. 1956.

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  • Main Title: [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6447]
  • Added Title: Road Slaughter Nearing Record

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Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Oklahoma passed a bloody milestone Thursday and the tragic end is not in sight. Oklahoma's highway toll now stand at 502 and unless death takes a holiday, a new road fatality record will be set before the bells toll out the old year and bring in the new. The record was set in 1936 - the year before the highway patrol was organized - when 685 persons died on Oklahoma highway. When that record was set, Oklahoma citizens damanded that something be doneto stop the carange. The answer was the organization of the highway patrol. The toll has not topped 600 since the patrol went on duty in 1937. Different this year But it will be different this year. Unless a miracle occurs, the highway toll will pass the 685 markpossibly 695."

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PublishDate: T-10-11-56

Credit: Oklahoma City Times

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  • "Road Slaughter Nearing Record", Oklahoma City Times, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 11, 1956

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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6447], photograph, 1956; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1696096/: accessed June 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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