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[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.B0053.0840]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charles Oscar Cherry, 21 year old Bethany truck driver, died Thursday when his loaded gasoline truck went out of control and overturned near Okemah. The accident happened about 8:30 AM on U.S. 62. Cherry was employed by the Gilmore & Kirk Oil Co."
Date: July 12, 1956
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.B0053.0716]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The driver escaped injury when this heavy truck, loaded with 180 sacks of feed, missed a bridge at the intersection of SE 59 and Eastern late Saturday night."
Date: March 8, 1954
Creator: Mitchell, George T.
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.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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0669]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Muddy roads and a house moving crew combined to get Harold Howard Brown, route 2, Chandler, and 22 head of cattle in this mess at 1200 E Reno Tuesday."
Date: July 25, 1950
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
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.B0053.0839]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "DRIVER ESCAPED INJURY in this accident of a semi-trailer truck in a crash north of Drummond, in Garfield county, about 2 AM Thursday. Jerry Allen Abbott, 24, of route 2, Fairview, said the wind blew him off course."
Date: September 6, 1956
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0831]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "When Franklin Harris, 1724 SE 29, Oklahoma City, tried to drive his double tank trailer truck under an overpass on the Frisco valley railway near Cache, Comanche county, late Tuesday he messed things up right."
Date: February 23, 1955
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0070]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "H. H. Trammel assistant foreman for-Frank Adam Schiner, 33-year-old truck driver kicked the wrong gear Thursday afternoon and came as close to disaster as he's ever been."
Date: January 19, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0687]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "THIS IS the crumpled top of a semi-trailer truck that failed to negotiate a rail-road underpass on NE 10 east of Eastern."
Date: April 10, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0672]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A SLIGHT SCRATCH ON HIS FOREHEAD was all Leroy H. Cowden, 33. of 2433 NW 3, received when his 11/2 ton truck skidded off the pavement and rolled down a 25-foot dirt embankment at the south end of a river bridge on S. Eastern Tuesday."
Date: November 15, 1955
Creator: Lucas, Jim
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.B0053.0688]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "IRRESISTIBLE FORCE-in the form of a 12-ton semi-trailer truck met its match early Wednesday when it smashed into an immovable object, a battered concrete railroad overpass on NE 10 east of Eastern."
Date: April 10, 1957
Creator: Peterson, Dick
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
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.B0053.0676]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Truck driver Lewis Hawkins, 106 NE 38, knew he had lost something Wednesday when he turned into an alley in the unit block NW 4."
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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