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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1178]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "An Oklahoman City man was killed and another injured early this morning when their station wagon smashed into dirt bank at the end of a dead end county road in far northwest Oklahoma county."
Date: February 24, 1972
Creator: Neal, H. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0687]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NARROWLY ESCAPING injury Tuesday was Tulsa elementary school principal Larry Constein, right who had just stepped out of his office when a car, driven by a student's mother, crashed through the wall. The woman said one of the children she was transporting left his lunch in the car. When she leaned over to hand it to him, her foot hit the accelerator, sending the car into the principal's office. No one was inj… more
Date: November 29, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0140]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three cars of a 30-car eastbound Rock Island freight train plunged 30 feet off an old wooden railroad bridge 1/2 mile east of Weatherford around 3:30 a.m. Sunday."
Date: November 27, 1972
Creator: Artman, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0331]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Broom's-eye view shows the mess resulting at Broadway and Park Ave. this morning when a soft truck swerved sharply and sprayed 132 bottles of pop on the pavement"
Date: May 5, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0371]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Concrete support, right, on overhead sign at I-40 and Classen is broken by a truck which crashed into the guardrail trying to avoid two cars involved in a rear-end collision about 1 p.m. Saturday."
Date: August 20, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1160]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Injured man at NW 52" and May was Lee G. Gill, 77, 2208 NW, 14 an attorney en route to his office at 2827 NW 63. No one else brought into Baptist. He was alone in his car and had knee and hand injuries." Staff Photo by Joe Aker. Original Photo 06/25/72. Published on 06/29/72."
Date: June 25, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0350]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Empty Dolese cement truck tangled with a 10-car Santa Fe passenger train near NW 121 and Broadway at mid morning today, leaving the truck with a fender damaged and minus one wheel."
Date: January 17, 1972
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1183]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HUGE TANK blocks the east-bound lane of the Northwest Expressway Thursday afternoon while workmen hasten to remove it from the roadway. Motorcycle Patrolman Jon Gustin said the massive 40-foot tank was scraped from the back of a tractor-trailer rig when it struck the Western Ave. bridge about 3 p.m. Traffic was blocked for more than an hour, he said. Gustin said the tank, loaded on the back of the truck, stood … more
Date: December 1, 1972
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0141]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tangled wreckage and demolished rails resulted when more that 20 box cars of a 110-car Frisco freight train jumped the tracks four miles east of Altus early Tuesday morning."
Date: December 26, 1972
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0362]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Demolished truck cab rests at Northeast Expressway and Wilshire Blvd. Thursday night after a collision that claimed the life of Benny Charles Lovett, 33, Altus."
Date: November 10, 1972
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0498]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Death rode with young man on this motorcycle. another picture, Page II. A young man was killed and five other persons escaped serious injury Sunday night in a spectacular, flaming collision involving two motorcycles and two cars in Del City. The fatal explosion was witnessed by a Del City policeman, who arrived at the scene to find his wife and his own family car were involved. Dead is Farrel John Young, 21, of 1808 S… more
Date: April 24, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0349]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Agnew at the I-40 underpass suddenly took on the appearance of a building site this morning when a flatbed lumber truck spilled its load all over the southbound lane."
Date: February 17, 1972
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0684]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "GASOLINE PUMP lies in a mangled heap after being struck by an auto in Norman Sunday afternoon. Norman police said Cleo Tevis, 55 Norman, was cited for reckless driving and transporting an open bottle following the crash at a service station at Lindsay and McGree streets. No one was injured."
Date: February 7, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0143]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Burning freight cars of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas line threatened to spread to a tank car filled with lethal chlorine gas, following a derailment on a trestle near Atoka Friday."
Date: June 30, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0497]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Forlornly-crumpled motorcycle is one aftermath of a fatal crash involving two cars and two cycles Sunday night in Del City. Rider of this one, Larry Wayne Stuart, 26, of 4736 Elmview, was tossed off before the cycle slid under a car. The other cyclist, who was killed, was Farrel John Young, 21, 2816 S Bryant."
Date: April 24, 1972
Creator: Aker, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1170]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Rush Hour Jammed-- Slipping and sliding vehicles were the rule this morning as freezing temperatures kept a thin layer of ice between tires and roads."
Date: December 13, 1972
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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