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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0126]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "HOVERING near death in a local hospital, Joseph Alvin Perkins, 20 of 9417 N. Military, was critically injured early Friday when this wrecked hot rod went out of control and overturned on the victim. Another passenger was injured in the careening crash in which the car traveled 334 feet out of control before rolling twice."
Date: January 16, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0745]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Eunice Irene Hughes, 57, of 4213 West Park Place escaped serious injury today when this two-ton truck loaded with 60,000 pounds of meat toppled onto her car at NW 10 and May. The truck driver, J. C. Kunkle, 47, of 7824 NW 7, told police he lost control of the vehicle when he swerved to avoid another car. The truck struck a traffic signal and concrete median before rolling onto the car which was stopped for a red light.… more
Date: October 16, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0223]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Drivers Escape-- This was one of those 'miracles' that happen now and then when two motor vehicles meet and both refuse to budge."
Date: August 16, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0742]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Battered remains of abandoned car is towed off after a 70,000-pound tractor-trailer truck crushed the auto against the guard rail today on I-40, dragging the car nearly 1,000 feet before the truck driver could brake to halt near the Robinson exit, police said. The driver of the 1966 auto told police he had parked the car on the roadside 15 minutes before the accident after the auto ran out of gas. The truck driver was … more
Date: February 16, 1974
Creator: Artman, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0299B.0353]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Not all there yet was Robert Howard Friday after his motorcycle struck a car and a 6-inch section of his thigh-bone became embedded in the auto's body."
Date: May 16, 1969
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0299B.0545]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Youthful Jerry Hoyt of Indianapolis will attempt to repeat as Taft stadium midget race winner here next Tuesday night when a field of more than 50 of the nation's top drivers compete in a 100-lap AAA championship event that is sure to attract a half-dozen Indianapolis stars."
Date: September 16, 1953
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0193]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Cadillac from Massachusetts got its nose bashed in. Monday was nose-bump day for jalopies and limousines from eight states, all tangled up together in the fog-draped intersection of N Eastern and the U.S. 66 by-pass. The automobile wrestle royal involved 12 vehicles, including a wrecker and an ambulance. At least five persons were hurt, none seriously. After the two-hour game of bangy-bangy, Trooper Loe White a… more
Date: December 16, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0475]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nobody Walked Away Two city teen-ages suffered broken legs in this crackup at NW 12 and Broadway late Wednesday. Police said a motorcycle driven by Robert Sherman Howard, 17, of 4337 NW 15, crashed head on with an automobile driven by Donald Shamlee, 18, of 177 SW 41. Robert Shaley Campbell, 15 of 1708 Miramar, who was riding on the handlebars of Howard's motorbike, suffered a broken left leg, Howard also suffered head inj… more
Date: May 16, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0791]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "NARROWLY MISSING DEATH, the driver suffered facial lacerations when this auto slammed into the rear of a flat bed truck trailer. The driver Thomas D. Fuller, of 2818 Guilford Ln., was admitted to Mercy Hospital for observation. The crash occurred about 1 a.m. Thursday at NW 38 and Meridian."
Date: November 16, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0958]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mystery Driver-- Rescue workers were summoned to a creek bed Thursday afternoon in the 7800 block of N Eastern in Oklahoma City after a wrecked car was discovered."
Date: July 16, 1981
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1300]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Damaged car is given the once-over by city police officer late Friday night after a 16-year-old Oklahoma City youth was struck on his motorcycle and killed. Officers jailed a suspect and owner of the damaged car."
Date: July 16, 1966
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0656]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two Illinois couples died in this wreck on the Turner Turnpike west of Sapulpa Wednesday afternoon. The car crashed into a concrete culvert after running off the road. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said today the reasons for the crash have not been determined."
Date: October 16, 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0960]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Three Injured-- A compact car, southbound on I-35 Sunday evening, was attempting to pass another car when it hit the curb and skidded broadside into a lamp post near SE 15."
Date: August 16, 1981
Creator: Longstreath, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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