title: [Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0890]
title: Three Escaped Alive
date: 1959-11-20
language: No Language
description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing
 Company. Caption: "THREE ESCAPED ALIVE though seriously injured Thursday when
 this auto and a Rock Island Freight train collided at the Post road crossing
 six miles east of Oklahoma City.  Highway patrol trooper Fred Rogers said the
 car skidded 165 feet, turning completely around, before hitting the fourth car
 of the fire-car train.  The driver, J.D. Vinson, about 35, of Choctaw,
 suffered fractures of both legs.  His wife, Betty Lou, 22, suffered a broken
 leg and a back injury, while their 18-month-old daughter, Debra Jo, suffered a
 head injury."
subject: Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism
subject: Accidents
subject: Auto-Train
subject: City
subject: 1955
subject: newspaper photographs
subject: ACCIDENTS / AUTO-TRAIN / CITY / 1955
coverage: United States - Oklahoma - Oklahoma County - Oklahoma City
coverage: 1959-11-20
coverage: Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
type: Photograph
format: 1 photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: 2012.201.B0052.0890
identifier: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc221547/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc221547