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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

A fatal crash occurred Wednesday in McCurtain County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.

Connie Henley, 50, of Valliant, was dead at the scene.

Henley was a passenger in a pickup that crashed at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday on a county road 5 miles north of Rufe, the patrol reports.

Seat belts were not in use. The name of the driver has not been released. The pickup went off the roadway and overturned, ejecting Henley.

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Friday, February 14, 2014
One person died Saturday in a traffic accident in Major County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. About 11:20 p.m., Betsy Sue Jantz, 17, of Ringwood, was a passenger in a northbound car on U.S. 412 being driven by Jonathan Lynn Koehn, 18, of Burns, Kan. About 1 mile south of State Highway 8, the car went off the road and hit a tree. Jantz, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, troopers said.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

An off-duty Oklahoma City firefighter died Sunday in an Oklahoma City traffic accident, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Shortly before 7 a.m., Joshua D. Kidd, 31, of Moore, was driving a pickup eastbound on Interstate 240 west of S Pennsylvania Avenue, troopers said.

The pickup went out of control and rolled over, troopers said.

Kidd, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, troopers said.

Fire Maj. Tammy McKinney said Kidd had been with the Oklahoma City Fire Department since November 2007.

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Friday, February 7, 2014

An Oklahoma man died Saturday and two people were injured in a wreck on Interstate 35 in Love County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

About 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Zachary Bumgarner 19, of Marietta, was driving a pickup with three passengers south on Interstate 35. The road was icy, and the pickup went off the road and turned over on its side. Troopers said the pickup was traveling too fast for the road conditions.

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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK
An Inola man died in a Rogers County crash Friday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. Brian Rogers, 41, was killed about 2:20 a.m. on State Highway 88 at Country Ridge Lane. Rogers was driving north when he drove off the roadway and overturned. He did not wear a seat belt and was ejected. Rogers was dead at the scene.
Date: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

A woman died Thursday afternoon in a southwest Oklahoma City traffic accident, Oklahoma City police reported.

Police were called to a single-vehicle accident about 12:15 p.m. near SW 119 and Interstate 44, a police Sgt. said.

Officers at the scene said the driver of a pickup lost control, crossed over the service road and drove through a barbed wire fence, Wardlow said.

The driver's name was not released Thursday.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation, police said.

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

A man, woman and a juvenile were killed in an icy Red River bridge accident in Bryan County Sunday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.

Juan Garcia, 40, the driver of a sport utility vehicle, and two of his eight passengers, all of Miami, Ok., died in a three-vehicle collision at 6:50 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 69 in the southbound lanes of the Red River bridge, the patrol reports.

Passenger Anita Lucio Mayorga, 70, was dead at the scene, the patrol reports.

The patrol did not release a name or age of the juvenile passenger killed .

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Friday, January 31, 2014

A Davis man was killed in a crash early Saturday morning, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Hunter Watson, 20, was driving west on Gateway Road two miles west of Ardmore Saturday morning when his pickup truck ran off the road and struck a light pole. Troopers said Watson was driving drunk at the time of the crash.

Watson was pinned in the truck for about an hour before the Lone Grove Fire Department pulled him from the wreck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

An Arkansas woman was killed Friday in a crash on Interstate 40 in Sequoyah County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Jana Dennis, 34, of Van Buren, Ark., was riding in a Ford F-150 shortly after 7 a.m. when the pickup ran off the road and rolled three times. Dennis was partially ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver, Joel Burrough, 35, also of Van Buren, was thrown from the truck and was taken to Sparks Hospital in Fort Smith, Ark., in critical condition, according to the patrol.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

A man died Wednesday after a car wreck on Jan. 30 left him with multiple injuries, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.

Huey Mangus, 79, was driving a pickup north on U.S. 271 7 miles north of Talihina in Le Flore County when his vehicle left the highway and hit a guardrail. Magnus was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle.

Mangus was flown to St. Johns Hospital in Tulsa and was there for nearly a week before he died.