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Edward Wehrly, the driver in a fatal traffic accident, testifies at the coroner's inquest, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Edward Wehrly, the driver in a fatal traffic accident, testifies at the coroner's inquest, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: December 30, 1932
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, "Young Motorist Lays Crash to Wind; Driver Blamed in Deaths." Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 1932: A2.
Teenager Edward Wehrly testifies during the coroner's inquest about a fatal, single-car accident in which two teenage girls were killed and a young man was serious injured. Wehrly claimed a strong wind gust caused the accident, but the ruling at the inquest was that he did not take proper precautions.
Text from newspaper caption: Scene at Inquest. Deputy Corner Monfort on bench and Edward Wehrly, driver of ill-fated car, testifying in witness box.
Text from negative sleeve: Webster, W. W.Atty. [Misfiled negative, should be with negative sleeve uclams_1429_4304: W. W. Webster]
Handwritten on negative: L to R: Montfort [sic] and Edward Wehrly
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4303
ark:/21198/zz002cq2rd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Traffic accidents
Monfort, Frank, 1876-1966
Wehrly, Edward, 1914-1970
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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