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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0993]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Swede Savage's car explodes as it rams the inside wall coming out of the fourth turn. Savage managed to survive but suffered severe burns and broken bones."
Date: May 31, 1973
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0577]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Highway workers inspect a load of ball bearings that spilled across three traffic lanes on the I-40 overpass above Robinson about noon today when a tractor-trailer truck overturned."
Date: September 1, 1982
Creator: McDaniel, David
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1149]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Part of Gary Coleman's motorcycle lies beneath the 25-ton road scraper which struck and killed the boy Monday. TEEN HIT BY SCRAPER, CYCLIST DIES IN CRASH, State Traffic Toll, 1973 deaths to date: 367, 1972 deaths to date: 406, 1973 deaths under 21: 97, A 15-year-old Oklahoma City boy was killed Monday afternoon when his small motorcycle was struck by a 25-ton road scraper, police said. Dead is: GARY COLEMAN, … more
Date: July 9, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0716]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The driver escaped injury when this heavy truck, loaded with 180 sacks of feed, missed a bridge at the intersection of SE 59 and Eastern late Saturday night."
Date: March 8, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0879]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at scene of fatal wreck east of Edmond Friday afternoon. Mrs. Judith Ann Powell, an occupant of a compact car which collided with the big trailer-truck, was killed. Another occupant of the car, Mrs. Rosanne Conn, and the truck driver, Roger Freeman, escaped serious injury although Freeman was trapped in the overturned cab for more than a hour."
Date: November 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0717]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The driver of this freight truck, M. W. Ellis, came out of the wreck with just a bump on his head and some bruises."
Date: February 23, 1946
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1082]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wreckage of a Benson Gyrocopter in which an Oklahoma City swimming pool firm executive plunged to his death is shown where it crashed near Cimarron Field. A 38-year-old Oklahoma City business executive plunged to his death Tuesday near Cimarron Field in Canadian County in a gyrocopter he built himself. Witnesses said Robert D. Paddock, a partner with his brother, John, in Paddock Pools, was killed when his Expe… more
Date: October 10, 1967
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1102]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here's the way Hank McTaggard's midget racer looked after the Wichita driver had been extricated from the wreckage during Monday night's program at Taft stadium. McTaggard's mount collided with another car as they rounded the south turn. The tiny car landed upside down on top of the restraining wall. The driver Tuesday was in a local hospital. He sustained a few cuts and bruises and was to undergo a checkup for… more
Date: August 20, 1946
Creator: Pash, Oral M.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0732]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Chicken-fried blacktop was served up on I-35 three miles south of Purcell this morning when an asphalt truck collided with this tractor-trailer rig carrying a cargo of frozen fat."
Date: April 27, 1979
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0982]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HIGH-RISING situation is created Wednesday afternoon when these two autos and a fire hydrant tangled at NW 24 and Shartel. The station wagon, driven by Pamela Sharp, 16, of 311 NW 18, westbound on NW 24, collided with the southbound auto driven by David Vaughan, 17, of 916 NW 38. No one was injured."
Date: February 24, 1971
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1087]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HELICOPTER CRASH killing two Woodward men Saturday left only a mass of metal on the Woodward street on the south side of the county courthouse. Ken Dale Martin, 33, pilot of the helicopter, and Leslie E. Martin, 30, the passenger were reported flying to Oklahoma City Saturday night when the craft approached the courthouse and plunged down to the street."
Date: July 19, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0706]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Despite the wreckage caused by two trucks colliding Wednesday morning in the 4300 block N Lincoln, only one man was injured."
Date: August 3, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0911]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CARS GET BOUNCED around by switching freight train that "ran out of track" and plowed across the 1500 block of S May Thursday night. No one was hurt but six cars in a driveway were wrecked by the runaway train."
Date: March 28, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1075]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "GAPING HOLE two miles east of the Oklahoma-Lincoln County line was created when a cattle truck crushed a rusty culvert under Memorial Road Sunday. The truck, owned by Walter Barnes Trucking Co., was not damaged and cattle in it were later transferred to another vehicle."
Date: February 20, 1972
Creator: Traverse, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1091]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A mass of wreckage resulted when an army helicopter crashed into this compact car on U. S. 270 east of Shawnee Sunday killing the pilot army reservist CWO James Elward Sivils, 28, of Shawnee. The copter crashed near the automobile driven by Preston L. Keel, after it struck power lines along the highway. Keel, his wife, Dorothy and their daughter, Tami Lyn, 3, escaped injury."
Date: June 1, 1964
Creator: A & G PHOTO SHOP
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Investigators check scene of fatal car-train accident in Ardmore Friday. STATE TRAFFIC TOLL 1971 to date 788, 1970 to date 794. 71 deaths under 21: 236, An Ardmore woman was killed Friday afternoon when her car collided with a Santa Fe Railroad engine in the city limits of Ardmore. Dead is ADALEE EMMA TUCKER, 63, Ardmore. Mrs. Tucker, a waitress at Lake Murray State Lodge, was pronounced dead on arrival at … more
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Pitts, Robbie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1090]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crashed helicopter which was to have carried Santa Claus to a Kiowa, Kan., parade Saturday is viewed by neighbors after it struck an electrical line and plunged to the ground near Alva."
Date: December 15, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0599]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRUSHED CAB of his liquid oxygen tank truck trapped Don Wayne Berry, 33, Carthage, Mo., after the right front tire blew out Tuesday 16 miles northeast of Oklahoma City on the Turner Turnpike."
Date: August 5, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0588]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Amcare workers assist Robert Bachtel who was injured when his northbound cement truck ran off the Broadway Extension in Oklahoma City and overturned at the NW 50 exit at about 3:30 p.m. Monday."
Date: December 1, 1980
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0747]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The driver and a passenger in this cab escaped serious injury when their truck and trailer, carrying 20 tons of hanging beef, overturned about 2 a.m. this morning at the I-35, I-40 interchange."
Date: August 26, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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