Astonishing Photos of Car Wrecks in the 1930s – Feature Shoot

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Astonishing Photos of Car Wrecks in the 1930s – Feature Shoot

Throughout the 1930s, the United States contended not only with the Great Depression but also with a nationwide panic surrounding traffic safety. In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt penned a letter to state governors, imploring them to curtail “t

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During the precarious decade, Leslie Jones of the Boston Herald-Traveler would take hundreds upon hundreds of photographs at the scenes of fender-benders and fatal collisions. As car companies gradually introduced much-needed safety features like hydraulic brakes, it was Jones who scrambled to the sites where people had badly damaged property or in the worst cases, lost their lives.