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Order Number	00095009
Title	Speeding car tears into family and dreams
Photographer	Sergieff, Mike.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE_b004_f4_i15
Date	1987
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Description	Photograph caption dated July 5, 1987 reads, "Johnnie Mae Tucker, left, and Mabel Jefferson comfort each other after crash killed 3 grandchildren, in photos, and tots' dad." A sedan, traveling between 70 and 90 mph down Hoover Street at Gage Avenue, ran a red light early Friday morning and crashed so hard into a car driven by Tucker's daughter, Lydia, that the vehicle was split in half and its five occupants flung in all directions. Lydia Tucker, 20, survived, but her boyfriend, Michael Magee, 25, and their three children, Duwone Magee, 11 months, Ryan Wagner, 3, and Shenike Magee, 2, all died at the scene. The driver, David Columbus Hasson, Jr., 33, was booked on suspicion of murder and taken to Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center. Mabel Jefferson is Lydia Tucker's aunt.
Subject	Child traffic fatalities--California--Los Angeles. Traffic fatalities--California--Los Angeles. Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles. Infants--California--Los Angeles. Grandmothers--California--Los Angeles. Aunts--California--Los Angeles. Dwellings--California--South Los Angeles (Los Angeles). Portrait photographs--1981-1990. South Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs. Group portraits
Coverage	1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection