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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0840]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Oscar Cherry, 21 year old Bethany truck driver, died Thursday when his loaded gasoline truck went out of control and overturned near Okemah. The accident happened about 8:30 AM on U.S. 62. Cherry was employed by the Gilmore & Kirk Oil Co."
Date: July 12, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0839]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DRIVER ESCAPED INJURY in this accident of a semi-trailer truck in a crash north of Drummond, in Garfield county, about 2 AM Thursday. Jerry Allen Abbott, 24, of route 2, Fairview, said the wind blew him off course."
Date: September 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0838]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ONE DRIVER WAS KILLED when these two dump trucks collided in a fiery crash near Sulphur Tuesday. At the extreme right is the charred wreckage of a newly-purchased dump truck in which a 50 year old Wilson man, Claud Poteet, was burned to death."
Date: April 17, 1956
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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