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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0126]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "HOVERING near death in a local hospital, Joseph Alvin Perkins, 20 of 9417 N. Military, was critically injured early Friday when this wrecked hot rod went out of control and overturned on the victim. Another passenger was injured in the careening crash in which the car traveled 334 feet out of control before rolling twice."
Date: January 16, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0532]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Killed in this plane crackup near Holdenville was C. A. Dahse, 26, Big Spring, Texas, businessman, who was the object of wide-spread search for two days."
Date: June 21, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0745]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Eunice Irene Hughes, 57, of 4213 West Park Place escaped serious injury today when this two-ton truck loaded with 60,000 pounds of meat toppled onto her car at NW 10 and May. The truck driver, J. C. Kunkle, 47, of 7824 NW 7, told police he lost control of the vehicle when he swerved to avoid another car. The truck struck a traffic signal and concrete median before rolling onto the car which was stopped for a red light.… more
Date: October 16, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0114]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "CHRISTMAS CARNAGE costing eight lives in Oklahoma since Wednesday is typified by this lethal junk pile. It is what's left of a car involved in a collision Thursday night at SW 15 and May. Harry holiday, 76, of 2708 SW 60, was killed. His wife and their son, John, 34, remained in "very serious" condition Saturday in Mercy hospital."
Date: December 26, 1959
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1028]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "No serious injuries were reported after this bus loaded with school children overturned today. Nine Children Slightly Hurt School Bus Overturns A school bus carrying some 45 children overturned on the Broadway extension near NW 50 this morning, but none of the children was seriously injured. One child, Vanessa Golden, 9, was taken from the scene by ambulance to Mercy Hospital where she was treated and released. Eight o… more
Date: January 31, 1973
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1440]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ernst Crisp, of 1232 SW 48, views with dismay his two cars that were knocked from his driveway crosswise into his yard by a hit and run youth's car:"
Date: October 23, 1964
Creator: Crowder, Russ
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1126]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The Driver Walked Away-- Gayle T. Omerlin, 19,of 253 W Eubanks, emerged apparanlty unhurt about 9:00 AM today, after his car was hit by a wind gust, smashed several fence sections and overturned." Photo by Joe Miller. Original Photo 02/12/73. Published on T-2-12-73."
Date: February 12, 1973
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0771]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A milk truck driver was critically injured Saturday in a tw0-vehicle crash at NW 23 and Harvey. Billy Gene Wilcox, 23, Norman, driver Townley`s Dairy in the city, was rushed to Mercy Hospital after his truck collided with an auto driven by Frank Conner, 35, Denver. Traffic investigator Clyde McLaughlin said Wilcox was traveling north on Harvey when the Conner car, traveling east on NW 23, crashed into his truck. Conner… more
Date: April 9, 1966
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0171]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Thursday is Thanksgiving. It is a day to give thanks for your blessings -- a day of joy. If you are careless for one moment, however, you may wind up in a picture such as this, So if you get out on the highway this holiday, be careful and alert. don't let death put its shadow over your happy holiday. Careless driving habits are constantly checked by licensing bureau and driver improvement bureau officials to prevent a… more
Date: February 27, 1957
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0022]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Derailed cars containing caustic soda, left, and gasoline await cautious removal. Four cars of a south bound Santa Fe freight train derailed near NE 122 and Broadway early Saturday, disrupting rail traffic on the road's main north-south line through Oklahoma."
Date: March 29, 1969
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0447]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture shows how an accident Thursday night took the life of 14-year-old Neal Norsworthy, Jr., near the intersection of Classen boulevard and Northwest Twentieth street. As police reconstructed the accident from reports, the boy either was holding to the side of the truck or was attempting to ride his bicycle between the truck and parked car, when the bicycle handlebar caught on the parked car, throwing him benea… more
Date: March 1, 1935
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1031]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Girl was injured in this bus. Another picture on Page 2. Two bus loads of school kids from Graham High School got more than they bargained for Friday in their planned visit to the State Fair of Oklahoma. The two buses were in a rear-end collision on the Draper Expressway near the Agnew Ave. exit about a mile from the fairgrounds. The collision sent a Graham girl to St. Anthony Hospital for treatment of minor cuts and b… more
Date: September 27, 1968
Creator: Wood, Tony
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.B0052.0482]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Dazed Cyclist Surveys the Wreckage James B. Grimm, 21 (foreground), couldn't tell coherently when this picture was made Wednesday just what had happened a few minutes before at the intersection of Linwood and Klein. His motorcycle, with his wife on behind, was struck by a car, sending both riders to the hospital."
Date: May 1, 1946
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1402]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "SPECTACULAR CRASH that put a crease in the top of this car early Tuesday left the car a wreck, but non of the five persons in the car was injured."
Date: December 7, 1965
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0788]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "AN OKLAHOMA CITY man R. T. Bailey, 7605 NW 38, suffered a cut over the eye Wednesday morning when his pickup truck collided with a car and overturned at NW 21 and MacArthur. The driver of the car, Darrell Sears, 6809 NW 25, was not injured."
Date: October 31, 1962
Creator: King, Cliff
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.B0051.0766]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Searchers arrive at hilltop where wing and two engines of a Northwest Airliner came to earth, three miles from ravine where fuselage crashed. The crash killed 63."
Date: March 18, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0135]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Officers and a wrecker crew work to free a driver trapped in his car under this Rock Island Train at S West avenue. Critically injured and with his car crumpled around him, a 33-year-old driver was pinned alive for more than an hour under a Rock Island train west of here Saturday morning. But he died before officers and wrecker crew could free him. The man was identified by his driver license as Donald Joseph Pope. Hi… more
Date: October 30, 1954
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0376]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Six Persons Are Injured as Auto Smashes Into Overpass. Six persons were injured, one believed seriously, early Saturday when their auto skidded on snow and crashed into the concrete railing at the north end of the Eastern overpass at SE 4 and Eastern. The six persons were treated at Mercy hospital for cuts and bruises and released. The driver, Bill C. Janson, 20, and Joe Allen Roberts, 20, both Tinker airman, were tran… more
Date: February 17, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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