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Title: Car accident kills youths
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This photo-diagram shows how two youths, Charles Hargrove, 15, and Donald Woodruff, 16, were killed in traffic on March 5, 1944. The boys alighted from a bus and started across the street at Washington Blvd. and Washington Place in Culver City, on the dotted line, and were hit by an automobile traveling 70 miles an hour. They were hurled nearly 200 feet in the air (arrow).
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044596
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 935.
CARL0000048198
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14259
Subject: Hargrove, Charles
Woodruff, Donald
Traffic accidents--California--Culver City
Traffic safety--California--Culver City
Streets--California--Culver City
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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