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[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0844]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Auto Wreckage Meant Sudden Death To Shawnee Woman. A Shawnee woman, Mrs. Elmer Dethrow, 50, died in this auto collision Sunday six miles south of Tecumseh."
Date: August 23, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0828]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two Killed In Truck-Car Collision Near Konawa Two deaths resulted Sunday night near Konawa when the truck, upper left, driven by Harold Tindall, 31, Tulsa, collided head-on with a car in which V.L. Griswold, 35, Sherman, Texas, and Sam Daniels, 61, Sapulpa, were riding."
Date: May 19, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0228]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three Are Hurt-- This is what happened to a 1950 Chrysler Friday when it tangled with the side of a truck at NE 36 and Lincoln."
Date: April 28, 1950
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0209]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Huge Truck Plunges Into 2 Cars; 4 Hurt- Brake Failure Blamed for 3 Vehicle Collision; Miracle Seen as None Die--- An apparent air brake failure on a huge, city owned truck and semi trailer caused a three vehicle crash at SW 29 and May Saturday in Which four were injured."
Date: July 28, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0503]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two Edmond school teachers died in this car when it collided head-on with the heavy truck-trailer (shown in background) at NE Memorial Park road and Eastern Wednesday night. Note the heavy Pipe which rammed through side and back window of the car. the pipe, however, missed both victims who were crushed against the dashboard. -- Two Edmond teachers were killed Wednesday night when the car in which they were riding collided… more
Date: November 19, 1959
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0219]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After the Crash Jo Milln, 51, of 3125 NW 13, is loaded into an ambulance in the 600 block NE 10, as Jerry Clifford Deitz, 40, of 1514 1/2 NE 13, (in the back) driver of the car in which she was riding, looks on."
Date: February 22, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0345]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE LIFE ENDED and three persons were injured Sunday in the ruins of these colliding vehicles. The casualty, Josh F. Weaver, 76, Beggs, was among 11 weekend Highway victims in Oklahoma. Weaver was killed when a car driven by his son-in-law, Elmo Corbit Habblethwaite, 35, of 9712 N University, and a pick-up truck driven by Tom Smart, 54, Norman, crashed at a county road intersection east of Norman."
Date: April 14, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0226]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Accident investigator W.A. (Bill) Williams looks over car, driven by Dell Thompson, 51, 5101 S Agnew, that hit truck, Thompson was charged with drunk driving."
Date: May 26, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0243]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "TWO PERSONS WERE HURT Thursday when this car and a truck collided in the 2200 block S Eastern and then plunged into a 10 foot ravine."
Date: August 2, 1953
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0222]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crash Victim-- An apprehensive wife watched Tuesday as her husband was being loaded into an ambulance after a four car collision at Grand and Shartel."
Date: September 26, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0229]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Crash Batters Fuel Truck, but Death's on Holiday-- This is what happened to a butane truck, carrying 850 gallons of fuel, after it collided with a car at Reno and Douglas Tuesday night, then skidded 200 feet on its back."
Date: January 17, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0227]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "in pics, T.C. Daniels, Accident investigating officer tells O.L. Staggs, 46, 2118 SW 11th, 'this is what hit your truck, 1/2 pint liquor & 1 bottle beer."
Date: May 26, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0841]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Wraps Itself Completely Around Tree. Steel was no match for this solid tree and speed in an early-morning accident Monday at Dale, Pottawatomie county."
Date: May 31, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0247]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Police Friday were attempting to piece together the story of a vice squad detective - on a dazed condition from a broken nose and head cut - found in his smoking and wrecked police cruiser at NW 15 and Pennsylvania."
Date: February 28, 1953
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0241]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 19 year old Norman resident, George Belmore Wiley, was admitted to Mercy hospital early Tuesday suffering a head injury and shock after his car collided with a semi-trailer truck at SW 29 and Western."
Date: December 29, 1953
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0336]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Illinois girls died Wednesday night in the collision of this 1932 model truck and the auto, right photo, a half mile east of Elk City on U.S, 66. Here Elk City fireman battle a Blaze in the truck loaded with watermelon and onions."
Date: August 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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