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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3685]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The car struck the bridge rail and in a split second plunged 60 feet to the river bed. The driver was killed. The bridge has a nine-inch curb. Above the curb are two paralled aluminum tubes four inches in diameter. The car jumped the curb and knocked out about 150 feet of the tubing. Would that driver have lived had the bridge railing been concrete rather than aluminum? Or would his car have glanced off into anoth… more
Date: May 9, 1967
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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