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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0139]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DEATH CAR is viewed by curious spectators at Northwest highway and Portland Wednesday night after a two-car crash which killed Charlotte Mo Henry, about 40, of 3320 N Robinson. She was a passenger in the car above which was driven by Robert Glenn Cody, 40 of 4216 NW 28. Cody and two persons in the other car, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Culbertson, were hurt. Culbertson car exploded in flames."
Date: September 11, 1957
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1103]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The wreck was the first of a series planned during the next three months for the benefit of 21 Highway Patrol Academy cadets "to give them actual situations to practice accident investigation," Tally explained."
Date: September 2, 1975
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0423]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SUDDEN STOP came when the driver of this car swerved to miss a cement truck Thursday and slammed into the corner of the C. J. Mutter home at 900 East Drive in Edmond. Police said the driver, Roy Burleson, 17, sustained minor injuries. Damage to the house, which was completed only four months ago, was estimated by the builder at approximately $2,000." (Photo by H. C. Neal) Original dated 09-23-1971, Published o… more
Date: September 23, 1971
Creator: Neal, H. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0305]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Cityan Seriously Hurt as Spinning Car Pins Him Down, An Oklahoma City man was seriously injured Saturday when this car overturned 2 1/2 times and landed on its top four miles east of the city on NE 23. The driver, James A. Maple, 23, of 2821 N Robinson, was pinned inside the car until officers freed him. He was taken to Mercy hospital with chest and head injuries."
Date: September 12, 1953
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0224]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO BOYS ON A TOY WAGON were injured critically Wednesday, when hit by a car in the 2500 block NW 33. They were identified in Mercy hospital as Donald Bowman, 9, son of Mrs. Mittie Jo Bowman, 2537 NW 33, and Stephen Riddles, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Riddles, 2036 NW 22. The car was driven by Joanne Sue Holmes, 16, of 2736 NW 21. She said she was blinded by the sun."
Date: September 22, 1955
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0209]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TWO DOCTORS AND A NURSE WERE HURT Thursday in a wreck on the S Walker viaduct. Dr. Clarence Oscar Epley, 73, of 3124 N Youngs, suffered a broken leg, wrist and cheek bone when his car, above, was struck head-on by a car which, police said, veered across the center line. The other driver, Dr. Presse M. Paul jr., 29, of 830 NW 24, and passenger , Miss Pearline Carroll, 29, of 101 NE 3, were injured. Miss. Carroll… more
Date: September 23, 1955
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0025]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SAVED FROM SERIOUS INJURY by a safety belt, Ralph Michael Simpson, 21, of 4220 S Harvey, crawled from this overturned automobile Monday with minor cuts. Police accident investigators C.D. Posey and J.M. Watson said when they arrived at the scene of a 2-car collision at NW 6 and Dewey they found Simpson dangling, held in his seat by the safety belt. His car was struck broadside by an automobile driven by Frankie… more
Date: September 9, 1958
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1469]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEMOLISHED in a fatal two car collision Thursday in Oklahoma City was this foreign-made car, driven by Mrs. Bertha Mae Jones, 39, of NW 10 and Portland, who died in the wreckage."
Date: September 8, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0640]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OKLAHOMA SAFETY WEEK WAS HARDLY OVER WHEN THIS CAR, DRIVEN BY MOLINDA EDLINE COX, Midwest City, crashed into the Tinker air force base fence on SE 29 and came to rest at the foot of the huge safety sign. She said she didn't see the stop sign. The car skidded 90 feet straight across the intersection. Tinker officials estimated $125 damage to the fence. There was about $200 damage to the car. Trooper Leo White… more
Date: September 7, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0173]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "TWO PERSONS WERE HURT Saturday when these cars slammed together on rain slick pavement at NW 18 and Lynn. One car bust into flames, but firemen quickly extinguished the blaze. Injured were Leora Brockhouse, 50, of 2833 NW 14, and Jimmy Dunlap, 21, of 1716 NW 4."
Date: September 21, 1957
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0229.0579]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fastest thing on wheels ! John Cobb's 2,600 horsepower " Railton Red Lion "is a blurred silver streak as the British speed driver races to a new land speed record of 368.85 miles per hour at Bonneville salt flats, Utah."
Date: September 23, 1939
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0384]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Train Hits Car, Injures Eight In City Grade Crossing Crash. Shelis Pauline Cook, 3-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Cook, 3307 SW 25, apparently was only shocked Thursday when she was thrown from an automobile in a car-train collision. Above Shelia Pauline is being given 100 CCs of plasma through a vein in her head. Hospital attendants said she may be released Friday."
Date: September 13, 1951
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0221]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Soldier Winds Up In Hospital As Car Rams Truck Trailer-- This 1952 model auto looks like it had just tangled with a fright train."
Date: September 17, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0026]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Store Rocked, Women Hurt By Wild Car. A parked car suddenly started off in reverse in downtown Oklahoma City Friday, ran wild a half block before crashing through a plate glass window at Katz drugstore, Main and Robinson. Two women were hurt, neither believed to be seriously, police reported. They were identified as Mrs. Louise Doyle Clark, 48, 2712 Cashion place, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eunice Clark, 79, A… more
Date: September 1, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0610]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SERIOUSLY INJURED in a three-car accident at N Eastern and the NE bypass Thursday, Pvt. Robert William Hiller, 23, Chicago (above) was rushed to Tinker Field hospital suffering internal injuries. Patrol Trooper Johnny Edwards said Hiller, being transferred from Fort Bliss to Fort Dix, missed a traffic sign and was struck broadside by another automobile which in turn struck a third vehicle. Billy F. Wynns, 18, o… more
Date: September 5, 1957
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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