Decidedly Grim

On my “Signal 30” post, I mentioned one of my all-time favorite morbid books: Car Crashes and Other Sad Stories. This is a collection of photographs of car crashes taken in the ’40s and ’50s by Mell Kilpatrick. In the comments to this post, Jim kindly shared a link to the wonderful blog Dull Tool Dim Bulb which contains newly discovered photographs by Kilpatrick taken with a dashboard cam. Although the photos aren’t the usual gory stuff, they are still very interesting. There’s something about car crashes from that era that are uniquely fascinating. The cars were such huge hunks of metal that it seems amazing they could be twisted and mangled so thoroughly, and the lack of seatbelts made for some extremely peculiar fates for the unfortunate passengers. Compelling stuff!

Mell Kilpatrick Dashboard Camera

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