[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0221]

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car wrapped around tree in crash at NW 23 and Robinson. Police said it was a "miracle" that a 57-year-old Texas woman escaped with her life after her car went out of control for a block on busy N Robinson Saturday morning. The woman, Mrs. Angie Gorin, Austin, Texas, suffered severe facial lacerations and bruises in the crash. She was immediately taken into surgery at Mercy hospital where her condition was described as serious Her accident, another earlier in Capitol Hill, and several minor ones in other parts … continued below

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Winford, Wesley August 18, 1956.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection and was provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society to The Gateway to Oklahoma History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 28 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car wrapped around tree in crash at NW 23 and Robinson. Police said it was a "miracle" that a 57-year-old Texas woman escaped with her life after her car went out of control for a block on busy N Robinson Saturday morning. The woman, Mrs. Angie Gorin, Austin, Texas, suffered severe facial lacerations and bruises in the crash. She was immediately taken into surgery at Mercy hospital where her condition was described as serious Her accident, another earlier in Capitol Hill, and several minor ones in other parts of the city, made police fear the city's long breather from traffic death is near an end. Nears Record Saturday Oklahoma City went into its 93rd day since a traffic death. Longest periods without a traffic death were in 1954 an 1955 when 99 days were chalked up, and 108 days in 1939. Mrs. Groin's car veered crazily out of control for a city block, polices said, after she attempted to turn off NW 23 onto N Robinson. Traffic investigator W.J. Marshall said Mrs. Gorin's vehicle first struck a station wagon driven by Adurey Golden Tidwell, 49 of 318 NW 23, then jumped the boulevard island. Tire tracks on lawns showed Mrs. Gorin's car then sideswiped a telephone pole, weaved between several trees, and finally rammed head-on into a large elm tree. Traffic Lieut. S.W. Stephens said "only a miracle saved her from more critical injuries." Tidwell, uninjured, told police he was nearly stopped when Mrs. Gorin's car struck his. Police could not explain immediately why Mrs. Gorin's car went out of control for such a distance, after Tidwell said she was going no more than 15 or 20 miles per hour. Throttle Stuck? Police said it was possible the woman's accelerator was stuck."

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Winford, Wesley. [Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0221], photograph, August 18, 1956; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc219657/: accessed March 10, 2026), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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