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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0771]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A milk truck driver was critically injured Saturday in a tw0-vehicle crash at NW 23 and Harvey. Billy Gene Wilcox, 23, Norman, driver Townley`s Dairy in the city, was rushed to Mercy Hospital after his truck collided with an auto driven by Frank Conner, 35, Denver. Traffic investigator Clyde McLaughlin said Wilcox was traveling north on Harvey when the Conner car, traveling east on NW 23, crashed into his truck. Conner… more
Date: April 9, 1966
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0318]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Twenty-two cars jumped the tracks a quarter of a mile from downtown Waukomis Monday, turning this Rock Island freight train into a block-long pile of misshapen boxcars."
Date: August 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0735]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Demolished Plane which carried George Carr, 54, and his son John, 21 to their deaths Sunday lies in the wood where it crashed 8 miles west of Lebanon, Mo."
Date: April 9, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1179]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smoke and flames pour from French tanker Betelguese after a series of explosions ripped the vessel apart in Bantry Bay Monday, killing 50."
Date: January 9, 1979
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0756]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "An Okmulgee man was fatally injured Wednesday afternoon when his car was crushed by a semi-trailer truck at NE Expressway and Wilshire Blvd. The man, identified as Lawrence Rumple, 67, was pinned in the wreckage of his yellow, hardtop convertible for about 15 minutes, was freed and rushed to Baptist Hospital. The hospital said he was dead on arrival. Rumple retired a year ago as head cook at Oklahoma State Tech at Okm… more
Date: August 9, 1967
Creator: Wood, Tony
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0582]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This large crater and one smaller one show the force with which a jet fighter plane crashed Monday afternoon five miles southwest of Lindsay, narrowly missing a farm home."
Date: August 9, 1955
Creator: Rhaodes, Charles
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0233]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car Play Pickaback in Freak City Accident, A freak accident in the 1200 block SW 25 Tuesday night saw the car that was struck, left, parked at the curbing, wind up on top of the car that struck it, right. The driver of the car, Glen Zennett Boggs, 17, Tinker air force base, was booked by police on complaints of reckless driving and having no driver's license. Dona Johnson, 17, of 536 SW 33, a passenger in Boggs' car, … more
Date: January 9, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0575]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Berger: notes for cut line on the Eugene Harrington [ or Kerrington] fatal auto accident six miles east of Shawnee late Wednesday evening on U. S. 270 highway. Harrington auto is the light colored vehicle in the foreground. Harrington died at 1;40 a.m. Thursday in a Shawnee hospital. The accident put six other persons in a Shawnee hospital. Harrington lived in Seminole, formerly of Konawa. James White, wife and… more
Date: February 9, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0230]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car Crash Blacks Out City Block: A motorist escaped injury Saturday morning when his auto crashed into a telephone pole in the 1700 block SE 29, snapping the pole near the ground. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. officials said the crash damaged a transformer, and most of the residents in that block were without electric power for two hours before repairs could be made. Officer R. L. Tettleton is shown investigating the a… more
Date: August 9, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0640]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "While 200 spectators looked on, an Oklahoma city driver walked the thin ice surface of Belle Isle Lake Thursday-then suddenly broke the crust and disappeared into the freezing water."
Date: February 9, 1961
Creator: Park, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1317]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Slam into post killed the driver of this car, James N. Tarpley, 724 SE 44, Sunday night and left Myrtel Holeman, 72, of 3621 S Woodward, in critical condition in St. Anthony Hospital."
Date: May 9, 1966
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0212]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Policeman Knocked Out of Car in Surprise Crash A Midwest City policeman, Jack Pearson, was severely bruised Friday night when his parked cruiser, above, was struck by another car at SE 15 and Air Depot road. The driver of the other car, Lawerence Voelkers, 65, of 1416 Ashton place, was given a drunkometer test at city police headquarters and then booked by Midwest City police on charges of driving under the inf… more
Date: April 9, 1955
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0098]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Clobbered car was driven by Charlene Bollinger in one of two accidents at same time on northeast expressway."
Date: February 9, 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1535]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Traffic stacked up when four were hurt in this car when it ad two other vehicles collided at NE 23 and Bartel Rd. during the rush hour traffic period Friday afternoon."
Date: February 9, 1962
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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