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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0828]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two Killed In Truck-Car Collision Near Konawa Two deaths resulted Sunday night near Konawa when the truck, upper left, driven by Harold Tindall, 31, Tulsa, collided head-on with a car in which V.L. Griswold, 35, Sherman, Texas, and Sam Daniels, 61, Sapulpa, were riding."
Date: May 19, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0244]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This was the scene at NW 30 and Western early Sunday after a crash which killed a city woman and piled this highway patrol car into the stop sign."
Date: February 11, 1952
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0675]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Pickup Truck 'Lost,' but Not for Long-Scout car officers who were chasing the pickup truck shown above lost it in traffic at NW 23 and Douglas."
Date: February 20, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0502]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three Are Killed -All three occupants of this automobile were killed Sunday noon in a collision with a Smith & Kernke funeral home ambulance making an emergency run to Harrah. Dead were Felix Raymond Mayer, 31, Harrah, the driver, and Henry Tayler, 44, and his son, Lonnie, 13, of Jones. The ambulance driver and his assistant were not seriously injured. The automobile was hit broadside by the ambulance. Here, a wrecker has … more
Date: June 23, 1952
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1187]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Trapped It took 10 men more than 15 minutes to free Mrs. Fred Groff, 62, Edmond, from the tangle of her pickup truck after collision three miles south of Guthrie Thursday. Mrs. Groff`s truck collided with the trailer of another truck. The entire side of her vehicle was crushed against her. Here two passing motorists finish bending the metal to release Mrs. Groff. She escaped with a laceration below the right kn… more
Date: May 2, 1952
Creator: Burns, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0241]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED in the 3400 block on NW 10 Monday night to Jack R. Gorman, 66, when his car approached two automobiles on the narrow street. Gorman who lives at 3900 NW 10, told police accident investigators he swerved off the highway to avoid a head-on collision. When he swung back on the pavement, his steering wheel locked. Gorman's car turned over twice then came to rest inside the front window of the Sooner Food… more
Date: October 20, 1952
Creator: Pyer, Ron
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0252]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Missing Driver Charged After Crash Complaints of reckless driving, destroying city property and leaving the scene of an accident were filed against the driver of this car after he struck the signal light post at Main and Western Thursday morning and then left the scene. John Carroll Marshall, 19, told W. E. Gill, patrolman in the picture, that his car collided with the other car and the driver left the scene while he … more
Date: December 4, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0677]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Bystanders and ambulance drivers Thursday pulled the truck shown above from the door of the King's Package cafe, 1411 Linwood, to free the unconscious driver pinned inside the cab."
Date: March 13, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0221]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Soldier Winds Up In Hospital As Car Rams Truck Trailer-- This 1952 model auto looks like it had just tangled with a fright train."
Date: September 17, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0389]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Booze Found in Abandoned Crash Car. Scouter officer Jimmy Doyle is shown removing a half-pint of liquor from the glove compartment of an auto abandoned after it crashed early Tuesday into the center section of the underpass at Grand and Santa Fe. Witnesses told officers a man and woman climbed from the auto and left the scene, and officers followed a trail of blood for a block and a half, but were unable to locate them… more
Date: May 20, 1952
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0236]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Fireman work swiftly to prevent further explosions of gasoline leaking from demolished pumps at Skaggs service station, NE 4 and Walnut. An out of control automobile crashed into three gasoline pumps at a NE 4 and Walnut filling station Tuesday, setting them afire and causing damage estimated at$2,750. Police said the pumps were ignited by three explosions after a car driven by Ulysses Riley, 25, of 1744 E. Park, went… more
Date: August 26, 1952
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0678]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Bystanders and ambulance drivers Thursday pulled the truck shown above from the door of the King's Package cafe. 1411 Linwood, to free the unconscious driver pinned inside the cab."
Date: March 13, 1952
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0254]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Jesse Dale Bird Jr., 1123 NW 46, took two friends out for a drive in his new car Sunday morning and this is the way it looked following an accident at SW 44 and Western, in which James F. Plumlee, 69, of 331 SE 49, was killed. Inspecting damage is Harrell Crockett, 504 SE 30, wrecker firm employe. City Man Killed in Intersection Crash: Three More Die in State. State Traffic Deaths. 1952 to date, 461; November, 8. 1951 to d… more
Date: November 2, 1952
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0246]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bottoms Up Mrs. Orpha G. Cutlet, 35, of 1601 NW 25, crawled out of her automobile unhurt Tuesday night following a collision at NW 50 and May in which the vehicle was flipped on its top. Police accident investigators F. C. Daniels and W.A. Williams said the Cutler car was struck by an automobile driven by Eleanor Janet Brown, 23, of 2205 Wesley drive, The Cutler car turned over into a third automobile driven by Paul B. Ni… more
Date: May 21, 1952
Creator: Kyle, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0184]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THREE PERSONS were injured, one critically, in this two-car crash at N MacArthur and Memorial road, northwest of the city. Above, driver of one of the cars, Herbert F. Harris, 20, of 1400 NW 9, lies in the road awaiting an ambulance. Mr. and Mrs. J.Q. Kendrick, Edmond, also were injured. Doctors at Mercy hospital said her condition was critical."
Date: August 30, 1952
Creator: Hanstein, Leonard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0833]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Where Five Died In Lawton Road Crash, This pile of twisted steel is all that remains of an automobile. It contained a Comanche county farm family of five persons. Just as they were within sight of their home their car and a truck collided near Lawton, killing them instantly. Two of the victims were pinned inside the wreckage and three were thrown out by the impact."
Date: February 27, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0834]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Five In Family Killed In Highway Crash Near Lawton, This picture was made shortly after a passenger car and a truck collided Tuesday afternoon 5 1/2 miles east of Lawton on SH 7 in which a farm family of five died instantly."
Date: February 27, 1952
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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