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| Date: | 05 17 1956 |
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| Description: | Aftermath of automobile accident. The cars plunged 17 feet over an embankment. Both drivers walked away from the crash. Onlookers look down from the embank... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Passers-by help move a disabled vehicle after an automobile accident on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | An ice truck is lying overturned on Highways 12-13 after encountering a patch of ice near Club Chanticleer west of Middleton. The truck and load of ice ove... |
| Date: | 08 08 1950 |
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| Description: | A crowd of onlookers surrounds a wrecked automobile. The accident occurred at Highway 30 and North Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 21 1950 |
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| Description: | A damaged car parked in a repair shop as a result of an auto accident at West Main and South Bassett Streets during a snow storm on December 7th. The car w... |
| Date: | 08 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Police investigator Boyd Hustad examines the car which a Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lee, and two children were riding in when it struck the Runion c... |
| Date: | 05 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Damaged automobile sitting on the lot at Hult's Capital Garage, 608 E. Washington Ave. with Thomas Olson Auto Accessories, 609 E. Washington Ave. and Mautz... |
| Date: | 05 28 1952 |
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| Description: | View of the Sauk-Middleton Road where an automobile accident occurred. Taken for Attorney Farrond Shuttleworth. |
| Date: | 08 09 1953 |
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| Description: | A group of Madison residents view the twisted hulk of a car in which David Huse, an airman at Truax Field, was killed. The accident occurred 4 miles south ... |
| Date: | 11 03 1958 |
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| Description: | An automobile rests on the sidewalk after running into the Wolff, Kubly & Hersig hardware store window at 30 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with garagemen retrieving another car from the open drainage ditch on Midvale Boulevard. The 1959 Dodge skidded into a snowbank and catapulted... |
| Date: | 10 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Burkie West and his grandaughter Catherine West answer a police officer's questions after their automobile was hit by a train. Both incurred minor injuries... |
| Date: | 07 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Inquest held in the death of Police Sergeant Ralph Nedderman caused by a traffic light violation by driver Alphonse Reiter (23). Shown in the court room ar... |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 11 1959 |
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| Description: | Three people are injured in a two car crash on USH 12 & 18 at the Madison east side city limits at a location referred to as "Crash Curve" by law enforceme... |
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