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NOPSI 292B784 viewsOn April 21, 1983, NOPSI 292B collided with an oncoming vehicle which was in the wrong lane, and sickeningly smashed into a large oak tree at the intersection of Gentilly Boulevard and Iris Street, injuring 25 passengers and its driver. NOPSI photo by Danny Birtacci; courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection [http://www.hnoc.org], contributed by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 292B767 viewsOn April 21, 1983, NOPSI 292B collided with an oncoming vehicle which was in the wrong lane, and sickeningly smashed into a large oak tree at the intersection of Gentilly Boulevard and Iris Street, injuring 25 passengers and its driver. NOPSI photo by Danny Birtacci; courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection [http://www.hnoc.org], contributed by Aaron Handy III.
NOPSI_crash_2-13-1970.jpg
NOPSI 282712 viewsThursday, February 12, 1970---a tragic, traumatic night during Carnivaltime '70 as 24 year-old NOPSI operator Joseph Washington, working on the Tchoupitoulas line that evening, ignobly became the victim of his own bus! While traveling outbound, Washington was ejected from NOPSI 282 in a collison with an automobile @ Jackson and Annunciation, thrown under a back wheel, and dragged to his death and crushed as his driverless bus careened forward, bounced over the Jackson Avenue neutral ground and slammed into a building across the street.

2 of his passengers survived, however, albeit one with slight injuries. Not exactly the WORST way to go, but horrible nonetheless!
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NOPSI 4 & 58700 viewsRetired NOPSI 1960 GMC TDH-5301 "New Look" buses 4 and 58 sadly languish at an unknown location in the rain. Photograph taken November 23, 1975 by Donald Weiss; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 307B626 viewsNOPSI #307B sporting Bus-O-Rama advertising signs. Photograph taken by Mike Strauch in 1982; collection of Mike Gallant.
NOPSI_111.jpg
NOPSI 111515 viewsWhether or not this can be attributed to bad shocks, the chassis of NOPSI #111, assigned to Palmer Park, slants painfully to the right as she rests on layover at Claiborne and Carrollton Avenues. Photographer unknown; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 179508 viewsNOPSI #179 in February, 1965. Photograph taken by Joel Shanus; collection of Joe Testagrose.
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NORTA 147 & 172471 viewsNORTA#147 & 172 at Canal and Tchoupitoulas Streets waiting to head outbound, assigned to route 55 Elysian Fields and route 16 S. Claiborne, respectively. Photograph taken December 31, 2009 by Aaron Handy III.
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NORTA 237466 viewsNORTA #237, assigned to route 11-Magazine, waits for the light at the corner of Julia & Magazine Streets to continue outbound. Photograph taken June 30, 2010 by Aaron Handy III.
NOPSI_Crash_2_12_1970.jpg
NOPSI 282447 viewsSome more photos of the fatal crash of NOPSI #282, which claimed the life of its own driver, Joseph Washington, on Thursday, February 12, 1970 (40 years ago today). G.E. Arnold photos; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 285 and 30446 viewsNOPSI #285 & 30, both assigned to the now-defunct Napoleon Via Melpomene (M.L. King) leg of the South Claiborne line, rest at the Napoleon terminal on South Claiborne Avenue, on October 21, 1973. Photograph taken by Elliot Kahn; collection of Aaron Handy.
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NOPSI 568426 viewsHere is NOPSI GMC RTS #568, converted into a New Orleans Police Mobile Command unit, taken at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Poydras Streets on Carnival 2004 (a good decade or so after the NORTA put the RTS coaches out to pasture). Photograph taken by Aaron Handy III.
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