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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.B0051.1311]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Air force Maj. John H. Bissette, 46, was killed early Wednesday when his car ran off I.H. 40 and slammed into a bridge near Douglas Blvd."
Date: April 20, 1966
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0414]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Collision Spins Car, Occupants Uninjured. Occupants of both cars involved in a collision at NW 32 and Dewey escaped uninjured Monday morning, but the force of the crash put one of the vehicles into a spin. The car in foreground was being driven by Dalton L. Eads, 1644 NW 15, east on NW 32 when it collided with the car in the rear, driven south on Dewey by Vivian Davis Diffendaffer, 616 Eubanks."
Date: February 20, 1950
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0127]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mangled cars of a Rock Island freight train lie in four Mile Creek near downtown El Reno Wednesday after derailing and destroying the railroad bridge as they plunged into the creek."
Date: November 20, 1974
Creator: Giudice, Gary
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0487]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CRUMPLED after catching the top of the Western Avenue bridge over the Northwest Expressway Monday is a five-ton forklift. Police said the machine riding atop a semi-tractor trailor, tumbled 180 feet behind the eastbound truck. Debris struck one westbound car, causing minor auto damage. Driver Eugene Wright, who was en route to his home base at Wichita, Kan., was cited for carrying a load two feet too high to clear the pos… more
Date: June 20, 1977
Creator: Reed, Monty
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

[2012.201.B0051.0183]

Description: Plane crash near some trees and a creek. The plane is mostly intact with little damage. Photo taken in the daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "VACATION ENDED for members of the Ray Lynch family, 2115 NW 20, when their plane overshot the runway at Expressway Junction Airport, 3101 NE 63 and crashed in a creek bed Saturday noon. Mrs. Lynch received pulled pack muscles, but Lynch and their three children escaped injury. The family was ret… more
Date: July 20, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0017]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wrecking crews prepare to haul away Aubrey Sherman Handley's auto at SW 27 and Youngs after it was involved in a two-car smash-up. Three women were seriously injured early Monday in a two-car collision at SW 27 and Youngs. Admitted to Mercy hospital with undetermined, but serious injuries were Mrs. Irene C. Kelly, 43, of 2336 SW 35; her daughter 17-year-old Jane Marie Kelly, and Mrs Maggie Mae Crail, 54, of 233… more
Date: June 20, 1958
Creator: Cobb, Richard
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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0371]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Concrete support, right, on overhead sign at I-40 and Classen is broken by a truck which crashed into the guardrail trying to avoid two cars involved in a rear-end collision about 1 p.m. Saturday."
Date: August 20, 1972
Creator: Albright, Bob
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.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0005]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wreckage blocked the Frisco Railroad right-of-way Monday as workers labored to clear a 13 car derailment that sent one man to the hospital and injured four others."
Date: April 20, 1959
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0718]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An unidentified man walks around the mangled automobile which smashed into the rear of a motor scooter eight miles west of Lawton on U. S. 62 Saturday night, killing Cpl. George W. Steves, Fort Sill. The car is resting in a bar ditch where it careened after the impact. Three passengers in the auto were seriously injured in the accident."
Date: October 20, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1147]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "MERRY GO ROUND RIDE was not so merry for George Cantrell and Jack Cantrell as the car they were towing caused both cars to turn completely around."
Date: September 20, 1973
Creator: Tullous, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0556]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Loading body of George Henry Stocks into Clinton ambulance. Lloyd Matthews, Highway patrol, center, Gene Stanley, Left Lieut. Jack Rollins, HP Right, Accident happened at 8:10 a.m. Sat. Two miles west of Clinton on U.S. 66 Foreground is Stock`s 1941 automobile. Truck driven by Martin McGrath Watson, 48, Abelene, Tex."
Date: September 20, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0812]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Trouble came double for drivers of two semi-trailer trucks Friday morning. These two trucks, the one at left loaded with wheat and the other with honey, skidded on icy I-35 south of Edmond and overturned."
Date: December 20, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0403]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Careening Convertible Crashes Fence, Deals Innocent Resident Low Blow. W.A. Collins, 1823 N Kelham, thought his house was falling down around his ears about 2 a.m. Friday. He was awakened by a loud crash on the north side of his home and found a convertible automobile had crashed through his fence and plowed into the side of his home. He told W.H. Johnson and J.T. Jackson radio patrol policeman, he saw a stocky man lea… more
Date: October 20, 1950
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0369]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dead man's curve on Oklahoma City's SW 74 Expressway caused another spectacular accident Wednesday when this truck driven by Bobby Ramey, 35, Edmond, skidded and overturned, trapping Ramey in the cab."
Date: August 20, 1969
Creator: Fisher, Don
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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