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Rodney Allen Ohair, 57, killed, after his pickup leaves a county roadway and overturns near Laverne.
A pickup driver died Sunday after the vehicle went off the road in Beaver County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
About 10:45 a.m., Rodney Allen Ohair, 57, of Laverne, was eastbound on a Beaver County road about 5 miles west of Laverne. The pickup went off the road in a curve and rolled, troopers said.
Ohair, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, troopers said.
A North Texas teen is in intensive care in an Oklahoma hospital after a skydiving accident on Saturday. Makenzie Wethington, 16, of Joshua, fell approximately 3,500 feet to the ground when something went wrong.
"The whole thing that's keeping us going is because she's still alive and really she shouldn't be," said Meagan Wethington,'s Makenzie Wethington's sister.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 20-year-old worker was killed in a forklift accident at a Sapulpa manufacturing plant.
The highway patrol says the accident occurred early Friday at Paragon Industries, which manufactures metal tubing for the oil industry. According to a preliminary report, the forklift was being used to pick up some pipe on private property.
The highway patrol says William Hunter Miller of Jenks jumped on the side of the forklift but slipped and fell off. The highway patrol says Miller died after he was struck by one of the forklift's rear wheels.