Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.

Freak accident - smashed 'bug'

Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at 12:00 AM

Feb. 16, 1972 Southeast Missourian

Smashed Bug

Police Ptlm. Carl E. Pease gathered details of this freak accident at Morgan Oak and South Sprigg Tuesday afternoon which actually looks worse than it was. The driver of the car, Teri L. Estes of Chaffee, escaped injury when the car was caught beneath the tank truck as it was turning right. Police said the car had pulled up to the stop sign at the right of the truck and when the trailer swung around it went over the car. Driver of the truck, Leo W. Miller, 115 William, discovered the mishap only seconds before the rear wheels of the trailer would have struck the car. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Here is another accident involving a 'bug' in Cape Girardeau:

Car skids, overturns on Perryville Road

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