HaarFager's photos with the keyword: Accidents

I was driving back home today when this accident happened only a couple minutes in front of me. When I got there, emergency workers hadn't even arrived, as you can see. What happened, according to eyewitnesses I spoke to, a car travelling about 80 miles per hour was passing another car on a curve. A semi truck was coming the other way and the passing car and the semi collided head on. The semi driver was helped to safety by the person in the car that was being passed, and who had wisely slammed on their brakes to avoid getting involved in the accident themselves. The people in the other car most likely died from the impact. If not, they were burned to death in the ensuing firestorm that erupted. People, please drive carefully! The life you save might be your own.

A semi accident I covered for the local newspaper back in 1981. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Tri-X, 400 ASA 35mm film Date: 1981 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Semi Wreck 1981 8ef

I was so happy to find this picture! It was taken for the local paper back in 1980 and I thought I didn't have a copy of it for my files. I was going through one of my file cabinets and found a copy of the old newspaper it came from and scanned it into my computer. The guy driving the truck was unfamiliar with intersection where the accident took place and turned his truck over. I don't think he was hurt. I shot the pictures and took the roll to my town's local newspaper. They let me use their darkroom to develop the film, select what I felt was the best shot and then print it out for use in the paper. I used Kodak D-76 to develop it in. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Tri-X 400 ASA B&W 35mm Date: The week of August 20th, 1980 Location: Near Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Truck Wreck, August 20th, 1980 3gf

In early 1978, there was an accident quite near my house. It was some friends of mine who had been out cruising and slid off the road due to snowy conditions and into the ditch that ran along Division Street. Nobody was hurt, but I've always had my suspicions that it was more than snow involved. This picture seemingly paints a different story. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica TC Littlefield 01ff