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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0018]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "PAINFUL PLUNGE from a bridge spanning the Raymond Gary bypass at NE 36 left this crumpled wreckage of a car Friday and sent the driver, Gladys Thompson, 50, to St. Anthony hospital in critical condition. Mrs. Thompson, who lives at 537 NW 41, said the car ran off the bridge and dropped 23 feet to an embankment below after skidding out of control during a rainstorm."
Date: June 21, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
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.B0052.0005]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Heavy guard rail speared the above car from front to back, but missed hitting two occupants inside. Jim Wolfkill, shown inside car, gets a close look at the damage. He and another wrecker driver, Sam Farris, top picture, helped free a man trapped in the wreckage."
Date: May 10, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0013]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THIS SIGN was carried 65 feet across a creek north of Oklahoma City early Friday by a 100-mile-an-hour car that missed the bridge, killing four and critically injuring two."
Date: May 23, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0009]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BAD BRAKES, BAD WRECK was the story at NW 6 and Broadway Thursday afternoon. Police said two were hurt when a car without brakes driven by Clarence Eaves, 46, of 625 NE 5, and the car above, driven by Albert Dean Spears, 70, of 1210 NE 20, collided. Both drivers were taken to Mercy hospital, Eaves with chest injuries and Spears with cuts and bruises. Eaves received a citation for defective brakes."
Date: January 3, 1958
Creator: Fisher, Dawes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0015]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "NEAR MISS- this automobile narrowly missed catapulting into a creek crossing SW 49 Wednesday. Accident investigator Bill Lewellen said 16-year-old Warren Edward Parris, 2421 SW 41, lost control, skidded 266 feet and slammed sideways through a bridge guardrail. Parris was cited for Wreckless driving and not having a valid license."
Date: September 3, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0020]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Car Hits Church, 3 Injured. An Oklahoma City grocer, Carl A. Rhoads, 57, was critically hurt when his car plunged into the Great Shiloh Baptist church here Monday after going out of control in a freak accident. Carl A. Rhoads, 57-year-old Oklahoma City grocer, was in a critical condition in St. Anthony hospital Monday after a freak accident in which his automobile crashed into a church at NE 10 and Lindsay. Rho… more
Date: August 19, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0012]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THIS HIGHWAY PATROL CAR was a pile of junk, Friday after a drunk driving suspect smashed it into a guard rail Thursday night at SE 74 and Douglas boulevard. The suspect, Henry Rolfe Tatum, 39, had been arrested by Trooper Carl Snook and placed in the car while the trooper went to order Tatum's woman companion to dress properly. Tatum whizzed off in the patrol car and wrecked it while being pursued."
Date: February 14, 1958
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0022]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LABORATORY TECHNICIAN Theresa Ann Cowden, 26, of 1827 NW 17, was fatally injured shortly after 7:25 A.M. Wednesday when this demolished sedan was involved in a two-car crash at N Villa and the Northwest Expressway. Miss Cowden was thrown through the right door window, and pinned under the car when it rolled. A second passenger and the driver suffered minor injuries. Driver of the second car was not injured. A … more
Date: November 26, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0011]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Another car and a telephone pole provided work for two wreckers at NE 28 and Lindsay. Four were injured. Four persons were injured, one critically -- in a two car smash-up at NE 28 and Lindsay, Monday. Undergoing emergency treatment for possible skull fracture and deep cuts on the face is 26 month- old Katherine Lucille Kemp, of 6100 N Shartel. Her mother, Mrs. Ethel Pearl Kemp, and driver of the car, Delbert L… more
Date: March 10, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0016]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SUFFERING FROM SHOCK and undetermined injuries when her automobile collided with another vehicle at NW 39 and MacArthur, Mrs. McComas, 69, of Elk City was taken to Mercy hospital Monday in an ambulance. Mrs. McComas' car collided the traffic signal with a vehicle driven by Mrs. Sue Myers, 21, living west of the city. The 6-month-old daughter of Mrs. Myers suffered cuts and bruises. Charges of disregarding a tra… more
Date: September 30, 1958
Creator: Davis, Ernest L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0024]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 96-foot leap and a 23-foot drop banged up this car and critically injured the driver. St. Anthony hospital doctors were fighting to save the life Friday of a 50-year-old woman injured in a spectscular auto crash at NE 36 and Bryan. Attendants said that Gladys Thompson, of 537 NW 41, was in critical condition. Her auto hurtled out of control on NE 36 as it came to the bridge across the Raymond Gray Expressway.… more
Date: June 20, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0023]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "KILLED when her car crashed into an abutment on S Robinson Sunday night was 26-year-old Martha Ann Folson, 2828 1/2 NW 23, the city's eight traffic fatality of the year. Officers said she was a nurse employed by the Capitol Hill General hospital. She is formerly of Fame, Okla. She was the only occupant of the car."
Date: April 7, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0010]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This car, owned by Kenneth KcKean, was wrecked in a "chicken game," police claim. Three city teenagers miraculously escaped injury Friday when two cars crashed almost head on in the 4100 block N. Tulsa. Police accused them of playing "chicken." Traffic citations for reckless driving were signed against Basil Lee Smith, 16, of route 10, and Kenneth McKean, 16, of 2208 NW 37. Both denied accusations by officers… more
Date: May 2, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0014]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fireman Danny Andrews, foreground, gets a daylight view of crash fire he fought. diagram shows route of car. Arrows point to where three of the dead were found."
Date: May 23, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0021]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE WAS HURT Tuesday when two cars collided at NE 13 and Kelley. Sent to a hospital for treatment was Mrs. Jewell Bogges, 49, of Driscoll, Texas. She was riding in a car driven by her husband, J.E. Bogges, 62, which was involved in a collision with another auto. Police officer B.J. Coffia inspects the wreckage."
Date: December 10, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0007]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A charred hull is all that's left of the death car. A late model convertible hurtled through the air at a speed of more than 100 miles an hour early Friday north of Oklahoma City killing four persons and critically injuring two others. Three of the crash victims and one of the injured were post office employees. The victims were all thrown through the air when their car crashed into a bridge abutment a mile nor… more
Date: May 23, 1958
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0019]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "FOUR WERE INJURED Friday when this car hit a bridge railing at SW 48 and Drexel. Police said Loma Faye Sackett, 15, of 5100 S Land, was most seriously injured. She suffered severe face cuts when she was thrown through the windshield. Suffering bruises were Floyd D. Vannosdoll, 21, of 3716 SW 26, the driver; Jenna Lee Goggin, 19, of Wellston, and Arlon Sackett, 18, of 5100 S Land. Police said the driver was issu… more
Date: June 28, 1958
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0017]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wrecking crews prepare to haul away Aubrey Sherman Handley's auto at SW 27 and Youngs after it was involved in a two-car smash-up. Three women were seriously injured early Monday in a two-car collision at SW 27 and Youngs. Admitted to Mercy hospital with undetermined, but serious injuries were Mrs. Irene C. Kelly, 43, of 2336 SW 35; her daughter 17-year-old Jane Marie Kelly, and Mrs Maggie Mae Crail, 54, of 233… more
Date: June 20, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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