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| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | County traffic officers Ray Case (left) and Henry Gerry are placing Elmer C. Evans, with head and face lacerations, in an ambulance to take him to the Jack... |
| Date: | 07 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Crashed automobile on tow truck, with traffic officer, Russell Klitzman, and deputy sheriff, Eldon Johnson, viewing the car. |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | The delegation of state, county, city, university, and business officials is shown as the caravan is about to leave from the Dane County Courthouse, 207 We... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two damaged cars are parked on the curb of a residential street. People can be seen behind the cars, a tow truck is parked on the opposite side of the stre... |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr.... |
| 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: | 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: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms stands next to a damaged 1946 Chevrolet which had been rented from Friede Rent-A-Car. Arms and Bert Rogers had been traveling to Milwaukee in th... |
| 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... |
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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: | 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: | 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 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... |
| Date: | 05 12 1965 |
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| Description: | Kris Natvig, with her parents, David and Mildred, is presented the Heroism Award of the American Legion by Michael J. Barbone, commander of the Donald C. S... |
| Date: | 11 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Frank S. Perry, 21, 1218 Rutledge Street, escaped uninjured when the Wisconsin Telephone Company truck he was driving with a trailer he was towing veered o... |
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