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| Title: | Flash flood traffic accident (N.M.) |
| Date/circa: | 1932? - 1936? | |
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| Subjects: | Roads - New Mexico; New Mexico | |
| Notes: | A type of accident peculiar to New Mexico and the Southwest: caught by an unexpected rush of water at the crossing of an ordinarily dry arroyo. These crossings are being rapidly replaced with bridges or culverts. | |
| Negative#: | 2013 |
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