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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0855]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED TRUCK lies at the scene of fatal wreck east of Edmond Friday afternoon. Mrs. Judith Ann Powell, an occupant of a compact car which collided with the big trailer-truck, was killed."
Date: November 20, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0223]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Drivers Escape-- This was one of those 'miracles' that happen now and then when two motor vehicles meet and both refuse to budge."
Date: August 16, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0844]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Auto Wreckage Meant Sudden Death To Shawnee Woman. A Shawnee woman, Mrs. Elmer Dethrow, 50, died in this auto collision Sunday six miles south of Tecumseh."
Date: August 23, 1954
Creator: Loftis, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0228]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three Are Hurt-- This is what happened to a 1950 Chrysler Friday when it tangled with the side of a truck at NE 36 and Lincoln."
Date: April 28, 1950
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0810]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Drivers of this car and pickup truck were killed in a head-on collisions 19 miles west of Eufaula. Victim in the car was a 19-year-old Marion, Va., youth. A Chouteu man died in the pickup."
Date: November 13, 1964
Creator: Parkhurst, Dean
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0809]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This crumpled wreckage was a pickup truck in Hoyt Tucker, 58, Roosevelt area farmer, was killed when it was involved in a four-fatality collision with a car east of Altus."
Date: December 24, 1968
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0209]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Huge Truck Plunges Into 2 Cars; 4 Hurt- Brake Failure Blamed for 3 Vehicle Collision; Miracle Seen as None Die--- An apparent air brake failure on a huge, city owned truck and semi trailer caused a three vehicle crash at SW 29 and May Saturday in Which four were injured."
Date: July 28, 1956
Creator: Winford, Wesley
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0510]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An Oklahoma City woman died in a three-car accident in Del City Thursday afternoon. The Dead: Willa Mae Jones, 26, of 220 Doris Ave. Mrs. Jones was fatally injured and six other persons hurt in a mishap at Sooner Rd. and SE 29 about 2:35 PM Thursday. Del City officers Jack H. Hill and Robert Strecker said a car driven by Joe Rosales, 49, of 911 SE 15. Taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment were Searle Vieno, 21, of the 1707… more
Date: March 31, 1960
Creator: Gumm, John
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0732]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "City Driver seriously injured A 37-year-old Oklahoma City driver, William Washington, was seriously injured today when his car, left, spun out of control and was rammed by a pickup and a third vehicle plowed into them at 9:30 a.m. on I-40 just west of Western. Four other persons involved in the crash escaped uninjured. The accident blocked the roadway for about 30 minutes and backup traffic about two miles in both dire… more
Date: November 8, 1977
Creator: Ward, Mike
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0503]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two Edmond school teachers died in this car when it collided head-on with the heavy truck-trailer (shown in background) at NE Memorial Park road and Eastern Wednesday night. Note the heavy Pipe which rammed through side and back window of the car. the pipe, however, missed both victims who were crushed against the dashboard. -- Two Edmond teachers were killed Wednesday night when the car in which they were riding collided… more
Date: November 19, 1959
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0808]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Force of impact that killed four near Altus is illustrated by this picture taken by Charles D. Rhoades, Oklahoma City, director of the Oklahoma Wheat Commission, who happened upon accident shortly after it occurred. Hood of pickup truck was fused to car's roof. ALTUS - Four persons were killed and two others were seriously hurt Monday in the head-on collision of a car and a pickup truck on a straight stretch o… more
Date: December 24, 1968
Creator: Rhoades, Charles D.
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0736]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Upside-down truck lies on river bed after going off the North Canadian River bridge on South May Avenue Saturday morning. The driver, Raymond Slabaugh, 1008 SW 24, was southbound on the bridge when his truck hit a slick spot, he was hospitalized with a broken leg."
Date: March 29, 1975
Creator: Carter, J. Pat
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0511]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Death car is wrapped around pole in Midwest City. Two young boys and a woman died as the result of a car-truck crash a few minutes before noon today when the car in which they were riding was rammed broadside by a truck at a Midwest City intersection. Two other children and the sister of the dead woman also were hurt, but apparently none of them seriously, Midwest City police said. None of the victims was immediately i… more
Date: November 17, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0854]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "FIRST FATALITIES of the Memorial Day weekend in Oklahoma were recorded Saturday when two persons were killed and three injured in this multi-vehicle smashup southwest of Drumright on rain-slickened SH 99."
Date: May 30, 1971
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0219]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "After the Crash Jo Milln, 51, of 3125 NW 13, is loaded into an ambulance in the 600 block NE 10, as Jerry Clifford Deitz, 40, of 1514 1/2 NE 13, (in the back) driver of the car in which she was riding, looks on."
Date: February 22, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0345]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ONE LIFE ENDED and three persons were injured Sunday in the ruins of these colliding vehicles. The casualty, Josh F. Weaver, 76, Beggs, was among 11 weekend Highway victims in Oklahoma. Weaver was killed when a car driven by his son-in-law, Elmo Corbit Habblethwaite, 35, of 9712 N University, and a pick-up truck driven by Tom Smart, 54, Norman, crashed at a county road intersection east of Norman."
Date: April 14, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0733]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Rescuers worked feverishly to extricate five victims from smashed station wagon on I-40. Two persons were killed and five others injured today in a head on crash on I-40 in downtown Oklahoma City. The collision occurred about 12:15 p.m. just west of the S Robinson interchange on the construction squeezed expressway when a late model station wagon carrying five members of a vacationing California family plowed into an … more
Date: June 17, 1977
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0226]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Accident investigator W.A. (Bill) Williams looks over car, driven by Dell Thompson, 51, 5101 S Agnew, that hit truck, Thompson was charged with drunk driving."
Date: May 26, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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