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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0670]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SMASHED VEHICLES lay by the side on I-40 two miles east of El Reno Saturday night after a grinding head-on collision that killed three persons and injured two others. Officials said the pickup truck, shown above, driven by an El Reno man, was traveling the wrong way in the eastbound lanes of the highway when it collided with an oncoming car carrying four Virginia persons. Both drivers were killed and a woman … more
Date: July 16, 1972
Creator: Engh, Eric
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0763]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mangled motor cabin resulted this morning when this trailer and the massive concrete beam it was carrying parted company with its tractor at Yukon's Star Courts"
Date: May 16, 1972
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0764]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A peaceful morning for the manager of the Star Courts Motel in Yukon was interrupted today when a semi-trailer with a 100 foot beam of concrete broke loose from its cab and plowed into one of the motel rooms."
Date: May 16, 1972
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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