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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Five men survive the 500-foot crash of this car. Five men were injured, three of them seriously, Saturday morning when their car skidded and rolled more than 500 feet along the Guthrie cut off one mile north of NE 63. All were rushed to Mercy hospital where their injuries were listed: Robert E. Miller, 24, Connally air force base, Texas, the driver, is in serious condition with internal injuries. James A. Harrison, 23,… more
Date: March 14, 1959
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0316]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A MYSTERY that had the highway patrol perplexed Tuesday night was this wreck two miles north of Moore. A witness told trooper Pat Walsh that he saw the driver jump from wreckage holding his side as though injured and hitchhike a ride toward Norman. The car checked to Glen Walton of Norman but troopers were unable to locate him Tuesday night. the car overturned several times on the wide curve on U.S. 77."
Date: April 9, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0317]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A MOMENT OF INDECISION resulted in the accident near Lawton Tuesday. It occurred when Zina Ross Wilson, 56, Tucson, Ariz., driver of this 1956 trailer-pulling auto, apparently became confused when entering the three-level inter-change, on e mile south of Lawton in U.S. 62. Officers said the car struck a post that divided the lanes. The jolt Jack-knifed the trailer and forced the car into the ditch---with the trailer on top… more
Date: February 4, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0321]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A MOMENT OF INDECISION resulted in the accident near Lawton Tuesday. It occurred when Zina Ross Wilson, 56, Tucson, Ariz., driver of this 1956 trailer-pulling auto, apparently became confused when entering the three-level inter- change, one mile south of Lawton in U.S. 62. Officers said the car struck a post that divided the lanes. The jolt jack-knifed the trailer and forces the car into the ditch-- with the tr… more
Date: February 4, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0320]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "BOOSTING DEATH TOLL on Oklahoma roads was this crash at the intersection of U.S. 270 and 75 Near Holdinville. Fatally injured in the mishap was Tommy Lee Smith, 20, Davis, who was riding in the car at left. The other auto was driven by Gene Abney, 31, Hughes county deputy sheriff, who was not seriously injured."
Date: January 20, 1958
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0315]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two Students Are Hurt in Crash, NORMAN-- two University of Oklahoma students were injured, neither critically, in a one-car crash near fraternity row early Friday. Norman police said the driver, Thomas Kanard, Muskogee, Student, was driving south on Elm street about 1 a.m. when the crash missed a curve, bounced over a curb, and rolled 185 feet across an open field before landing upside down. Injured were Pat Smith, 18,… more
Date: December 11, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0314]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 35-FOOT PLUNGE off the road and down an embankment Saturday morning resulted in critical injuries for three Cleveland county Indian youths. This 1949 sedan hit an overpass abutment, plunged through a guard rail and catapulted onto the new Inter-state 35 cloverleaf under construction four miles south of Norman, trooper Cy Killian said. Injured were the driver Harvey Lewis Gibson, 20, and two passengers, Donald Lee White, … more
Date: June 1, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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