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PEOPLE Witnesses say the car went out of control near # Jim Miller Road, smashed into a mercury vapor light standard, cartwheeled through the air several times, and finally came to rest on its roof about 80, yards
from the standard.
The first people to the scene
said the 6 year girl was walking around the smoking car, screaming. The others were inside. LIGHT SWINGING The impact snapped the mercury vapor light from its anchor point on the pole, and it gyrated crazily in the wind, Firemen pried both doors from the vehicle
A car went out of control tonight on the R. L. Thornton Freeway in Dallas, tearing itself to pieced as it ripped along the pavement. Killed outright in the wreck was 11 year old Linda Carter. The dead girl's sister, six year old Freda, and her mother, Mrs. Fred A. Carter, are in undetermined condition at Parkland Hospital.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fatal car accident on the R. L. Thorton Freeway in Dallas.
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