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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.B0051.1553]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One man died in this wrecked auto on Oklahoma City's east bypass early Friday morning. Nelson W. Eldred, 74, of 4402 N College, Bethany, was dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital after the car rammed into the rear of a truck."
Date: November 17, 1961
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0532]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Killed in this plane crackup near Holdenville was C. A. Dahse, 26, Big Spring, Texas, businessman, who was the object of wide-spread search for two days."
Date: June 21, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0557]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s the Car This old model automobile driven by Kendreth S. Wilson, a suspended driver, hurtled through the front of the Three R Rancho service station and cafe east of Edmond early Sunday. Mrs. Pat Marsh, 3300 S Harvey, and O. D. Collier, 6 NE 3, passengers in the car were critically injured. The store front was demolished."
Date: May 1, 1950
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.B0052.1064]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH IN SNOW came to a Magazine, Ark., man, Joesph Frank Hughes, 39, when this pickup he was driving skidded into the path of a Greyhound bus Friday night on ice-coated U. S. 69 south of McAlester. the motor was ripped from its mounts by the collision. The bus, driven by James Carl McConnell, Tulsa, carried no passengers."
Date: January 23, 1966
Creator: Southard, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1470]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Smashed sports car was hit by another car, careened into a gas meter and shattered a telephone pole before spinning to a stop in the 3100 block N Lincoln Friday afternoon."
Date: July 26, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0482]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rescue team looks down on wreckage of Air West jetliner at bottom of gorge. Rescue workers worked their way along a rugged canyon Monday looking for bodies from the collision of a Hughes Air West airliner and a Marine Corps jet fighter."
Date: June 8, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0855]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at the scene of fatal wreck east of Edmond Friday afternoon. Mrs. Judith Ann Powell, an occupant of a compact car which collided with the big trailer-truck, was killed."
Date: November 20, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1478]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One Oklahoma City man was killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday when the auto, failed to slow down for a dead end street."
Date: May 21, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0382]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only wreckage, Pain Left. Trooper D.R. Stogner, above surveys the damage resulting from a truck-car collision four miles northwest or Moore on SH 74 Friday afternoon. Four persons were injured, one seriously. The truck was driven by Jessie Jack Wilmoth, 28, of 26, NW 11, which pulled off a county road onto SH 74and met a car driven by Jerome Janger, 18, of 800 NE 17. Both men were hurt. Two passengers, below in Janger's ca… more
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: Albright, Bob
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.B0052.0620]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE MAN DIED Friday when this auto was involved in a collision with a freight train at the SW 19 and Agnew crossing. He was Edward A. Edwards, 48, 1009 SW 27. His death will not be added to the city traffic toll, since the accident scene is in one of the "islands" of Oklahoma county surrounded by the city but not inside the city limits."
Date: August 7, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0840]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Oscar Cherry, 21 year old Bethany truck driver, died Thursday when his loaded gasoline truck went out of control and overturned near Okemah. The accident happened about 8:30 AM on U.S. 62. Cherry was employed by the Gilmore & Kirk Oil Co."
Date: July 12, 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "CHRISTMAS CARNAGE costing eight lives in Oklahoma since Wednesday is typified by this lethal junk pile. It is what's left of a car involved in a collision Thursday night at SW 15 and May. Harry holiday, 76, of 2708 SW 60, was killed. His wife and their son, John, 34, remained in "very serious" condition Saturday in Mercy hospital."
Date: December 26, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0730]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Miss Tulsa, Cheryl Dee Norris, received a broken arm and minor head lacerations Saturday when she crash-landed this plane on a firm near Okemah."
Date: September 22, 1963
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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