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Signal 30 is a 1959 social guidance film made by the Highway Safety Foundation in the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio.The film, shown widely to high school students across the United States during the 1960s through the 1980s, was produced by Richard Wayman and narrated by Wayne Byers, and takes its name from the radio code used by the Ohio State Highway Patrol for a fatal traffic accident.
Red Asphalt is a series of instructional driver's education films and videos produced by the California Highway Patrol, known for their graphic depictions of fatal traffic collisions in a shockumentary style. [1] Horrendously injured and dismembered bodies are shown, typically those of negligent drivers.
Kidnapping of judge followed by shootout with police, led to manhunt for Angela Davis [86] [87] 6: Newhall incident: Valencia: 1970-04-05: 5: Shootout in which four California Highway Patrol officers were killed, deadliest day in California law enforcement history [88] [89] 7: Symbionese Liberation Army shootout: Los Angeles: 1974-05-17: 6
The Brief. February 3 became known as "The Day The Music Died" when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash. Bitter cold forced the musicians to give up on their bus ...
The octogenarian stabbed the hitchhiker in the back after she refused his request for "sexual contact," according to court docs. 84-year-old charged in 1974 cold case murder of hitchhiker thanks ...
Highway Patrol is a 156-episode action crime drama series produced for syndication from 1955 to 1959. It was "one of the most popular syndicated series in television history", [ 1 ] and it was the first American series broadcast in West Germany on that country's commercial TV channel.
The first crash killed Ferrari driver Alfonso de Portago, ... you are headed one way only: for that little box under the ground,” driver Harry Schell said in 1959. (Schell died in 1960 at age 38 ...
The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the date of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence. From the beginning, California Highway Patrol sergeant Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) announces in a voice-over that a 39-car smash-up will be the cause of 62 injured people and fourteen deaths.