8 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0674]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HANGING ON to the edge of a bridge on Memorial Road about one mile east of I-35 is this car which bounced off one railing and crashed through another Monday night. Accident investigator Larry Hay said neither the 67-year-old driver nor his 14-year-old nephew were seriously injured in the 6:45 p.m. mishap over the Deep Fork Creek."
Date: February 7, 1977
Creator: Southerland, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0672]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HOT CHILI smolders in the wreckage of a semi-truck after the rig missed a turn on a fog-shrouded multi lane bridge south on Ft. Sill on U.S. 277, slammed into a guard rail and plunged down an embankment early Tuesday. The wreck burst into flames, igniting much of the truck's cargo -- 45,000 pounds of El Paso chili. The driver, Don Riffel, of Moore, escaped."
Date: October 25, 1977
Creator: John, Lisa
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0677]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "TIRE BLOWOUT sent this car careening through a guardrail off the westbound lane of I-40 and Anderson road Monday evening but no one was seriously injured. Driver of the car, Darlene Bull, 14, Midwest City, was admitted to Midwest City Hospital for observation with a broken nose, the highway patrol said. Her four passengers were treated and released."
Date: October 31, 1977
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0675]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Grim-faced highway patrolmen and wrecker operators carry a stretcher from the scene of Thursday's car-motor home crash that claimed eight lives and left six persons injured along U. S. 69 in Atoka County."
Date: July 15, 1977
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0670]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SMASHED VEHICLES lay by the side on I-40 two miles east of El Reno Saturday night after a grinding head-on collision that killed three persons and injured two others. Officials said the pickup truck, shown above, driven by an El Reno man, was traveling the wrong way in the eastbound lanes of the highway when it collided with an oncoming car carrying four Virginia persons. Both drivers were killed and a woman … more
Date: July 16, 1972
Creator: Engh, Eric
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0673]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SMASHED VEHICLES lay by the side of I-40 two miles east of El Reno Saturday night after a grinding head-on collision that killed three persons and injured two others. Officials said the pickup truck, shown above, driven by an El Reno man, was traveling the wrong way in the eastbound lanes of the highway when it collided with an oncoming car carrying four Virginia persons. Both drivers were killed and a woman … more
Date: July 16, 1977
Creator: Engh, Eric
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
Back to Top of Screen