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D57106-4
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- 1951-03-20 (Creation)
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Damage to a Tacoma Transit Co. bus after a night time car-bus accident. An Air Force sergeant was killed in a terrific broadside collision at 66th St. and South Tacoma Way when the station wagon he was driving smashed into the side of a Tacoma Transit bus. The bus was crossing the street with the green light when the sergeant's vehicle ran the red light with no slowing. The station wagon was travelling at a speed in excess of 55-80 mph just before the crash that knocked the eastbound bus sideways ten feet into a wooden power pole that snapped. Every window on the left side of the bus was smashed. (TNT 3/21/1951, pg. 1)
Buses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Tacoma Transit Co. (Tacoma); Mass transit--Tacoma--1950-1960; Wrecks; Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1950-1960;