[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0617]

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WORST BATTERED AUTOMOBILE is the description state troopers gave to this automobile belonging to Billy Llyod Kutej, 17, of route 11, after the youth drove through a guard rail on E Reno near Sunny Lane road early Wednesday. Kutej is in Mercy hospital with several fractured ribs, back and internal injuries. Trooper Arch Hamilton said that Kutej was traveling east on Reno. His automobile struck a concrete guard rail, sheared it off, flew through the air 45 feet and dropped upside down into a creek bank. Kutej was … continued below

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Daily Oklahoman June 10, 1953.

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  • Added Title: Worst Battered Automobile

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WORST BATTERED AUTOMOBILE is the description state troopers gave to this automobile belonging to Billy Llyod Kutej, 17, of route 11, after the youth drove through a guard rail on E Reno near Sunny Lane road early Wednesday. Kutej is in Mercy hospital with several fractured ribs, back and internal injuries. Trooper Arch Hamilton said that Kutej was traveling east on Reno. His automobile struck a concrete guard rail, sheared it off, flew through the air 45 feet and dropped upside down into a creek bank. Kutej was thrown clear of the car."

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PublishDate: 6-11-1953 Oklahoman

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Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection

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  • June 10, 1953

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Daily Oklahoman. [Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0617], photograph, June 10, 1953; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc214019/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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