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Title
Out-of-control bus hits five cars
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Brown, Rob
Date Created and/or Issued
1981
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated May 13, 1981 reads, "RTD bus crossed center divider of La Brea Avenue, hit a Cadillac (center), and four other cars, then hit an embankment." 26 people were injured in his accident with a Line #212 bus at La Brea Avenue and Stocker Street in Baldwin Hills; miraculously, no one was killed.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00095458
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b006_f1_i14
CARL0005064068
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33483
Subject
Southern California Rapid Transit District
California Highway Patrol--Employees
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Buses--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Cadillac automobile
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Police--California
Streets--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles)
La Brea Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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