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Date: 
Friday, December 19, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK
Richard D. Beattie, 82, from Locust Grove, was killed in a car crash near Chouteau in Mayes County. The two-vehicle collision happened around 2:00 p.m. Friday at the intersection of U.S. Highway 412 and 412B, when Jimmie Ray Hobbs, from Vilonia, Arkansas, failed to yield at the stop sign on southbound 412B. Beattie was pinned in his wrecked vehicle for about 30 minutes before being extricated by Chouteau firefighters. He was pronounced deceased at a Tulsa hospital. Jimmie Ray Hobbs was admitted to a Tulsa hospital in critical condition. 
Date: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK
Two people died in a Mayes County crash Wednesday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. Benjamin M. Morgan, 20, of Peggs, the driver of a car, and passenger Evelyn M. Hays, 43, of Peggs, both died in a head-on collision with a pickup about 6:20 p.m. Wednesday on State Highway 82 about 3.7 miles south of Locust Grove, the patrol reports. Morgan was driving north on SH 82 when a pickup driven south by Cooper S. Day, 47, of Tahlequah, tried to pass another vehicle that was turning right onto a private drive. Day's pickup struck Morgan's car head-on, the patrol reports.