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Title
CHP officer killed by car on freeway
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1987
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated October 1, 1987 reads, "Force of car impact sent CHP officer's shoe, laces still tied, to other side of freeway." A rookie California Highway Patrol officer, Terry Wayne Autrey, 28, of Upland was killed when he was investigating a minor accident on the Long Beach Freeway in Bell. Autrey's partner, Michael R. Price, 34, was also struck, but survived. The officers were run down as they were getting back into their patrol car parked between the northbound fast lane and the center barrier after talking to the occupants of three cars involved in an earlier non-injury collision. Autrey had been out of the academy for 16 days and was being trained by Price when the incident occurred.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094801
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f1_i62
CARL0005059967
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33282
Subject
California Highway Patrol--Employees
Police--California
Traffic accidents--California--Bell
Traffic accident victims--California--Bell
Traffic fatalities--California--Bell
Shoes--California--Bell
Motorcycles--California
Express highways--California, Southern
Interstate 710
Bell (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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