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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn water wagon. One passenger has flown through the air and pierced the ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Automobiles damaged during the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. |
| Date: | 03 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Car shown with damage from accident. Stemp family vehicle in for repair at Pyramid Motors. |
| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from road of a man standing near his overturned car smoking a cigarette. His coat is lying across the side of the car. In the background is a barbed w... |
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| Description: | An upside down Bancroft delivery truck. A man is standing just behind the front tires. On the right, a "Dane County Police Traffic" car can be seen behind ... |
| Date: | 06 1997 |
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| Description: | A cross on Highway 110 South of Winchester marks the spot where Tabitha Dyer was killed in a car accident. |
| 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: | 06 07 1966 |
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| Description: | View from road of a truck pulled off to the side of the road. The back of the truck is collapsed, containing beehives spilling onto the ground. "E.R. Raley... |
| Date: | 04 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lavern (Edith) Clark walking away from her car that was knocked out of control on Milwaukee Street by another car. It crashed through a fence and into... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of the front of two automobiles, one of them a Ford Model T (right), with crumpled fenders resting against each other near the curb. The car on the l... |
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| Description: | View towards a man posing in the open door of an early Ford automobile, which has run off the road up onto a concrete barrier. The axle is broken and one t... |
| Date: | 09 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Police shown busy at the site of one of many crashes during a heavy rain. The driver of this car was injured when a trucker misjudged the distance during t... |
| Date: | 12 07 1962 |
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| Description: | The overturned car in front of Millins Supermarket on Monroe Street belonged to William Matthias. He hit a lamppost and flipped the car while trying to avo... |
| Date: | 12 07 1962 |
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| Description: | The car of Californian Charles E. Reid lying submerged in Lake Wingra at the end of Knickerbocker Street after a police chase resulting from him holding up... |
| Date: | 03 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Elsie Neerland, Deerfield, suffered multiple face and head cuts when hitting the windshield in a car accident. Her husband was driving the 1963 Comet when ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Daniel Coffey, an Ohio Chemical Company employee, suffered internal head and chest injuries and a fractured right leg when his 1957 Chevrolet was demolishe... |
| Date: | 04 22 1965 |
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| Description: | Miss Kris Natvig, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David A. Natvig, 902 W. Shore Drive, rescued Mrs. Clifford D. Kenison moments before her car sunk into Monon... |
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