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Title: Gas tank explosion kills driver
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
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 June 6, 1980 reads, "The charred remains of Cathy Swain's Pinto." Swain, 22, of Northridge, was driving near Vanowen Street and Hollywood Way in Burbank when she was struck from behind by a larger and heavier vehicle, driven by David Villegas, 19, of Burbank. Swain was pronounced dead at the scene after her Pinto, which hadn't been modified to correct its faulty gasoline tank, exploded.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094934
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b004_f2_i38
CARL0005047774
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32698
Subject: Traffic accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Traffic accident victims--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Automobiles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Pinto automobile
Debris--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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