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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1262]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A car, airborne for 90 feet, plunged into a shallow creek in extreme southwest Oklahoma City Sunday night, killing a 17-year-old Moore girl and injuring her companion."
Date: September 18, 1967
Creator: Mooney, Hank
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0452]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HEAVY ON A MAN--Here is shown the heavily loaded truck which figured in the wreck on Southeast Twenty-ninth street early Sunday morning which took the lives of five persons and still may take a higher toll. In this condition the truck landed in a ditch more than 100 yards from the point of collision and pinned John Taylor, Seminole, the driver, in the crushed cab. To release Taylor, who was seriously injured, it was necess… more
Date: April 18, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0766]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Searchers arrive at hilltop where wing and two engines of a Northwest Airliner came to earth, three miles from ravine where fuselage crashed. The crash killed 63."
Date: March 18, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1210]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ambulance attendants place Mrs. Theola Mitchell, 42, of 2143 Bush, onto stretcher today following a two-car crash at NW 122 and Western."
Date: May 18, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1533]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One Died and two other persons were seriously injured when two cars above rammed together at the intersection of SH 152 and Newcastle Rd. late Wednesday afternoon."
Date: January 18, 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0993]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Melting Pot- Melting snow from Monday's record early storm which turned a dirt road into the spin out of this four wheel drive vehicle and caused it to flip into Lake Hefner Monday evening about 7;20 PM near Stars and Stripes Park."Photo by Renee Lynn. Original Photo 11\17\80. Published on 11-14-80."
Date: November 18, 1980
Creator: Lynn, Renee
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0584]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The state fire marshal Wednesday launched a full scale arson investigation into two mysterious fires in the last five days that destroyed two airplanes at a private airport near Moore."
Date: August 18, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1139]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BUT ONE IS HURT--If the boys who work on oil derricks weren't a nimble-footed and quick-thinking bunch, three of them might have been crushed to death Saturday afternoon in the twisted skeleton of steel pictured above. It was an oil derrick with the capitol in the background a few minutes before the photograph was made. Three rig-builders were remodeling the structure when suddenly the groan of strained joints… more
Date: September 18, 1937
Creator: Hughes, William J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0660]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A workman directs traffic around the mangled remains of a car involved in a three fatality accident Friday in Tecumseh. Two children of a Stillwater woman and an Oklahoma City man died in the crash." Story, Page 27."
Date: August 18, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0027]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Wreck Address: 32 & S Oklahoma Assignment: Glenda Herring - Age 13 - Chandler, OK. Lynn Herring - Age 4 - Cushing, OK. Artie Curry - Cushing, OK. Treva Curry - Age 3 - Cushing, OK. Not in Pix: Mrs. Myrtle Herring} Chandler, OK, Mr. George Herring} Chandler, OK."
Date: October 18, 1956
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0337]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "FIRST TRAFFIC DEATH of 1957 for Garfield county occurred Thursday when Lloyd Kriethe, 28-year-old Billings man was killed. His car overturned several times landing upright. Wilbert Wyssman Covington, a passenger, sustained minor injuries in the accident. A passing motorist is viewing the awesome wreckage three miles north of Covington on U.S. 64."
Date: January 18, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0288]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Motorist Lies Beside car after Accident Near Here, A 52-year-old Edmond man, Halvert Joseph Shea, shown lying by his car, was admitted to St. Anthony hospital early Wednesday morning suffering fractured ribs and a fractured shoulder blade. Highway patrolman said Shea lost control of his car near Reno and Eastern and the vehicle swerved back and forth and across the highway before overturning and throwing him out. His c… more
Date: November 18, 1953
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0354]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRUSHED TO DEATH by this smashed car Monday was Mrs. Bessie Liola James, 46, Choctaw. The accident occurred east of Oklahoma City when two cars collided and Mrs. James was thrown out of one car and under the other. Police had to dig a hole beside the car to remove the victims body."
Date: June 18, 1957
Creator: Dodson, Buddy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0409]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Beer truck lies on its side after colliding with a car at the intersection of Sheridan and Shartel about 6:30 PM Tuesday."
Date: June 18, 1974
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0279]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SEVEN PERSONS WERE INJURED, one critically, when this new car, driven only 1,000 miles, overturned on U. S. 270 just west of McLeod early Sunday. The driver, Edwin Berry Caldwell, 22, Harrah, was treated for cuts and bruises and was jailed at Shawnee on reckless driving charges. Critically hurt was Landau Sewell, 47, of Harrah, who was taken to City hospital at Shawnee with a fractured skull and internal injuries. Troopers… more
Date: October 18, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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