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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0633]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "JACKKNIFING TRUCK on I. H. 35 near the North Canadian River bridge hangs precariously on the shoulder where it came to rest Friday after striking a guard rail."
Date: November 5, 1965
Creator: Brown, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0124]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "RAIN SLICK streets and an unseen stop sign were the cause of a collision which heavily damaged this police cruiser at NW 9 and Hudson Tuesday. Scout car officer Phil Kennedy suffered bruised ribs and Mrs. Ina Mae Day, Edmond, a bruised hip in the wreck. Mrs. Day said she failed to see an eastbound stop sign. Kennedy was unable to stop on the slick streets, before the collision occurred, the officer said."
Date: May 5, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0474]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Speed of Cycle Puzzles Police How fast was this motorcycle raveling when it struck a dip in the pavement and went out of control 225 feet before the youthful driver was thrown 50 feet? Police don't know the rate of speed, but an officer points to the "stop" hand on the motorcycle's clocking speedometer, which registers the highest speed attained. The "stop" hand registers 87 miles an hour. A motorcycle dealer here fa… more
Date: December 5, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0110]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "SMASHED UP in a collision with another vehicle at NW 11 and Linn was this 1958 Lincoln Continental. The driver, Mrs. Kathleen J. Eng, 1313 Brighton, was not injured. For a Look at what hit this $8,000 luxury car."
Date: June 5, 1959
Creator: Cannon, Larry
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0109]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "HITTING HIS OWN DRIVEWAY wasn't as easy as it seemed Saturday for Sterling Brent, 1441 NE 18. Officers said he turned the corner near his house at high speed and missed the driveway in front of his home by at least 15 feet. He didn't miss an elm tree in his yard, though. Brent is in Mercy hospital with undetermined injuries. Police were trying to locate him at the time of the accident."
Date: June 5, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0357]

Description: An Oklahoma Highway Patrolman rests his foot on a tree limb as he watches the smoke rise from the carcass of the airplane that crashed into the wooded area. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A state trooper examines wreckage of fatal airplane crash near Purcell."
Date: May 5, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0256]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Careening Car Caves In City Filling Station: A woman motorist narrowly escaped injury at noon Friday when her auto collided with another car, went out of control and crashed into a service station at 4006 NW 10. A gasoline pump was knocked 25 feet, and one corner of the roof over the station driveway crashed down on the hood of the woman,s car. The driver, Mrs. R. E. Winkler, 1015 Warren, was "shaken up" but uninjured.… more
Date: March 5, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1053]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "OUT OF ACTION because of Thursday`s snowstorm is this Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma bus which overturned, with 16 persons aboard, northeast of Oklahoma City Thursday afternoon. Only one passenger was reported injured. He is Bert Willard Hall, 39, Kaw City, who was treated for cuts and bruises. The driver Lloyd James Ragen, 54, of 2536 NW 13, said the big bus skidded sideways on a hill and overturned."
Date: March 5, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0418]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Choctaw family died Thursday was in a head-on collision with another vehicle on Harrah Road. The other driver also was dead at the scene." Photo by Roger Klock, Original Photo dated 02-05-1981, Published on 02-06-1981"
Date: February 5, 1981
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0441]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "DEATH TRAP--Pinned in a coupe overturned in four feet of water in Lake Overholser bypass, two Oklahoma City high school students were drowned Friday night. They were in the water 45 minutes before firemen arrived, pulled the car 20 feet to the shore and extricated them. Here is the wrecked auto as it was pulled to the bank, and inset is a photo of Jennie Lee Heller, 15 years old, one of the victims."
Date: February 5, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0440]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car driven by Jack Jackson that plunged into Lake Overholser, killing Jennie Lee Heller and Phillip Le Vite."
Date: February 5, 1937
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0439]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Scene of accident when car driven by Jack Jackson that plunged into Lake Overholser, killing Jennie Lee Heller and Phillip Le Vite."
Date: February 5, 1937
Creator: Shroder, William J., Jr.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0351]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Enid Pair Hurt as Auto Hurtles Over Washout; A Vance airman and his girlfriend had a new brush with death on Tuesday night when their auto sailed across a deep ravine on a washed-out farm-to-market road east of Enid."
Date: June 5, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0496]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fire followed the collision of a gasoline truck and a wheat truck on the Northwest highway and MacArthur Blvd. Friday A 27-year-old Wayne man miraculously escaped a fiery death Friday Morning when his gasoline truck burst into flames following a collision with a wheat truck. Grover C. Teague, was traveling west on Northwest Highway when his truck collided with a semi-trailer driven by R.B. Blalock, 55, of 820 N Meulle… more
Date: August 5, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0020]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-eight cars of a Purcell bound Santa Fe freight train were derailed shortly before 8 a.m. Friday just south of NW 71 and Shartel."
Date: August 5, 1960
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1390]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "SPEEDER ESCAPED early Thursday when police car driven by officer Phil Kennedy collided with car turning left and crashed into telephone pole in the 2900 block on N May. "
Date: August 5, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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