September 5, 2017
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Two people have died while three others are recuperating in hospitals in central Oklahoma following accidents over the holiday weekend.
A 21-year-old Weatherford woman died on Friday morning following an accident in Blaine County.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Kaylyn Hunter Gatlin was pronounced dead after arriving at OU Medical Center with a head injury caused in the accident about seven miles west of Watonga.
Gatlin was driving a 2017 Buick Encore north on a county road where she reportedly failed to stop at a stop sign and was struck by the trailer area of an eastbound 2015 Freightliner semi driving by a man from Georgia who was uninjured. She was pinned in her vehicle for about a hour before being air transported to OU. The accident happened about 5 am Friday morning.
A McDonald, Kansas man, 51-year-old Dean Miesner, Junior was pronounced dead at the scene of a one vehicle motorcycle accident in Wheeler County early Monday morning. The Texas Department of Public Safety says Miesner was traveling on US 83 about 12:58 am approximately seven miles north of Wheeler when his 2003 Triumph Bonneville ran into a deer standing in the roadway.
A 40-year-old Hobart man is reported to be in good condition today in OU Medical Center following a wreck in Custer County on Sunday morning about 2:08 am.
The OHP says Kevin Parker was traveling south on US 183 in a 2016 Western Star semi when he fell asleep behind the wheel, leaving the roadway to one side, then over-correcting causing the rig to roll over one time. The accident happened about four miles south of Putnam.
An Elk City man was uninjured in an accident on Friday morning in Logan County that sent two others to hospitals in central Oklahoma.
45-year-old Joseph Dale Loyd of Elk City was eastbound on Camp Drive near Guthrie in a 1999 Peterbilt semi along with a a man from Seminole who was driving a 2000 MAC truck when they traveled over a hill finding two other vehicles in the roadway. One had been pulling a 10-foot box trailer. The MAC truck was unable to stop striking Loyd’s “stopped” vehicle forcing it into the box trailer and it’s attached, but unoccupied 2016 Dodge pickup.
Two pedestrians were pinned between vehicles for about 5 minutes. The pedestrians from Oklahoma City and Edmond are recuperating in area hospitals arriving in good condition at the time.
The MAC truck driver from Seminole was uninjured.
The accident happened about 11:10 am, one mile west of Broadway and three miles west of Guthrie on Friday.
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