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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0671]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SMASHED EDMOND POLICE CAR is towed away after the driver, Sgt. Gary Cooper, swerved to avoid a stopped school bus at U.S. 66 and Air Depot Road Monday and ran off the road. The police unit, which was pursuing armed and robbery suspects, flipped over and came to rest partially submerged in a farm pond. Cooper and another Edmond officer in the car, George M. Meador, suffered minor injuries."
Date: March 14, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0487]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRUMPLED after catching the top of the Western Avenue bridge over the Northwest Expressway Monday is a five-ton forklift. Police said the machine riding atop a semi-tractor trailor, tumbled 180 feet behind the eastbound truck. Debris struck one westbound car, causing minor auto damage. Driver Eugene Wright, who was en route to his home base at Wichita, Kan., was cited for carrying a load two feet too high to clear the pos… more
Date: June 20, 1977
Creator: Reed, Monty
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0747]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The driver and a passenger in this cab escaped serious injury when their truck and trailer, carrying 20 tons of hanging beef, overturned about 2 a.m. this morning at the I-35, I-40 interchange."
Date: August 26, 1977
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0732]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "City Driver seriously injured A 37-year-old Oklahoma City driver, William Washington, was seriously injured today when his car, left, spun out of control and was rammed by a pickup and a third vehicle plowed into them at 9:30 a.m. on I-40 just west of Western. Four other persons involved in the crash escaped uninjured. The accident blocked the roadway for about 30 minutes and backup traffic about two miles in both dire… more
Date: November 8, 1977
Creator: Ward, Mike
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0733]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Rescuers worked feverishly to extricate five victims from smashed station wagon on I-40. Two persons were killed and five others injured today in a head on crash on I-40 in downtown Oklahoma City. The collision occurred about 12:15 p.m. just west of the S Robinson interchange on the construction squeezed expressway when a late model station wagon carrying five members of a vacationing California family plowed into an … more
Date: June 17, 1977
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0405]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Driver Darrell Blankeship escaped injury about 10:30 AM today when his Oklahoma Transportation Department mowing machine overturned and burst into flames at the SE 15 overpass on I-35."
Date: October 31, 1977
Creator: White, Perry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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