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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0601]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Someone's bridge is falling down - or so it seemed Tuesday when a truck loaded with wooden support beams dumped its load across the westbound lane on Northwest Expressway east of Merdian Ave. Driver Joe Neash, Harrah, said the truck jacknifed as he attempted a u-turn, toppling the load and blocking traffic for nearly an hour. Neash said no one was hurt in the incident - "just my pride."
Date: June 3, 1969
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0611]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dangling precariously over NE 63 on the I-35 overpass is large semi-trailer truck that went out of control. The cab, containing two men, plunged 25 feet below and burst into flames. The men miraculously escaped serious injury when they were pulled from the wreckage by an unidentified man."
Date: September 2, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0613]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers peer at huge crane arm which crashed through the front of the A&A lock Shop, NW 4 and Broadway, Wednesday afternoon when the big machine became unbalanced and toppled."
Date: January 31, 1979
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0609]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Demolished trucks litter fatal side of I-35 after headon crash that killed a Texas man. A truck driver was killed and two men injured Wdnesday afternoon near Oklahoma City's Turner Turnpike gat on I-35 when two large truck crashed headon in heavy traffic. Dead is Levi J. Berten, 64, San Angelo, Texas, one of the drivers. Injuries were the other driver, John B. Maize, 47, of 1400 SW 11, and a passenger in Bert… more
Date: April 24, 1968
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0606]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Smashed-in car looked like this Thursday after it collided with school bus, shown in background. Several junior high students were injured."
Date: October 5, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0600]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a RV with its front in a creek/river, a wrecker at top left attached to the rv with another line from a different wrecked at the front door, many people gathered around on the road, and more.)"
Date: July 12, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0614]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Toppled crane blocks traffic on Broadway after it crashed through roof of A&A Lock Shop. No one was hurt but the building sustained about $20,000 damage."
Date: January 31, 1979
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0608]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a semi-tractor/trailer wrecked into a pickup and cattle trailer on the shoulder of a road, a dead/laying down cow on the left middle, a cow resting under the shadow of the semi, aperson of the far leftm a fireman and a guy at the front of the vehicles, and more.)"
Date: March 30, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0599]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a RV with its front in a creek/river, many people with a police officers and firemen gathered around on the road, and more.)"
Date: July 12, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0612]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A real cliff-hanger Tuesday in Oklahoma City was this tractor-trailer which narrowly missed going over the bridge railing on I. H. 35 near the Tinker Diagonal. Highway patrol trooper Mike Lapuzza said the east-bound vehicle apparently slammed into the railing about 4:30 a.m. Lapuzza said the driver was uninjured, but it was several hours before the roadway was cleared."
Date: September 27, 1966
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0596]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Photo of a RV with its front in a creek/river, many people gathered around on the road, road guidence signsa of "West 66" and "Penn Square Entrance," and more.)"
Date: July 12, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0603]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dead and dying livestock trapped in this overturned semi-trailer truck created problems for Oklahoma City police today at I-40 and Agnew. Cowboys from the nearby stockyards rescued most of the animals, but 32 calves died. The trailer, loaded with 120 head of cattler, overturned as the driver attempted to make a turn enroute to an auction at Woodward. Lewis Dunsworth, 53, Woodward, the driver, and his son, Barry, 18, … more
Date: November 11, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0591]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Nine-car accident is investigated Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and N May by Officer Rick Morgan of the traffic divison. Morgan said it was a chain-reaction type accident and since everyone involved tried his best to avoid the collision on the slippery pavement there were no citions issued. The collision started when one woman could not get her car moving on the ice after the light chan… more
Date: December 19, 1973
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0595]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Photo of a delivery truck laying on its driver's side with it haul spreed out of the median, four guys in the median, the one on the left is picking-up the boxes, a police car on the far right, traffic still flowing, and more.)"
Date: December 1, 1981
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0592]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sandwiched between a milk truck and a city bus Friday morning at NW 4 and Broadway, Lillie M. Anderson, 43, of 1521 NE 39, and her daughter, Brenda, 21, of 505 N Rhodle Island, escaped serious injury despite extensive damage to their car, police said. Truck driver Terry A. Jackson, 24, was cited for following to close and pushing Mrs. Anderson's stopped car into the bus."
Date: April 18, 1975
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0594]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Photo of a delivery truck laying on its driver's side with it haul spreed out of the median, four guys in the median, the one on the left is picking-up the boxes, traffic still flowing, and more.)"
Date: December 1, 1981
Creator: Klock, Roger
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0597]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "(Photo of a RV with its front in a creek/river, a person being brought out of the rear of the rv on stretcher(?), officer and many people gathered around the rv, other people and an officer on the bridge across the top from the left to right, a wrecker on the bridge with line attached to the rv, and more.)"
Date: July 12, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0604]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two passenger cars and three transport trucks piled up on the Northeast Expressway Tuesday afternoon critically injuring on man and killing three cows. The crash occurred in the 12000 block Northeast Expressway about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and halted motorist in both north and southbound lanes for nearly an hour. Traffic was backed up nearly two miles either way, officials said. Traffic Investigator W. B. Smith said the c… more
Date: March 30, 1971
Creator: Wilson, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0598]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a RV with its front in a creek/river, three guys bringing a person out on a stretcher at the rear, a police officer watching, the rv's brand is "Redi-Go-Traveler, and more.)"
Date: July 12, 1969
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0605]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This view to north and west shows traffic challenge posed by overturned trailer at right. An overturned truckload of beef snarled early morning expressway traffic on eastbound I-40 today, but the highway patrol said no one was injured. Troppers said the truck driven by Louis Sullivan, Pikeville, Tenn., apparently rounded the I-40 North Canadian River bridge curve too fast, shifting the 35,000 pound load of h… more
Date: March 4, 1971
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0602]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of a cowboys at the front of a livestock trailer bringing in/taking out the cows, wrecker at theupper middle left, and more.)"
Date: November 11, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0610]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dangling precariously over NE 63 on the I-35 overpass is large semi-trailer truck that went out of control. The cab, containing two men, plunged 25 feet below and burst into flames. The men miraculously escaped serious injury when they were pulled from the wreckage by an unidentified man."
Date: September 2, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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