April 6, 2016
By Paul Joseph, Paragon Communications News Director –
The usage of illegal drugs caused the collision of two vehicles sending a Butler woman to an Oklahoma City hospital.
45-year-old Cynthia Leann Houchin-Beer was sent to OU Medical Center with internal injuries arriving there in stable condition. There’s no current report on her latest condition available at news time.
A passenger in her vehicle, 80-year-old Leola Patricia Houchin, also of Butler, was treated and released at AllianceHealth Clinton hospital.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol report, Houchin-Beer was eastbound on State Highway 73 when another vehicle, a 2001 Dodge PK driven by 28-year-old Wesley Eugene Walton of Elk City, failed to stop at a stop sign and struck – in the driver’s side – the 2012 Chrysler mini-van that Houchin-Beer was driving.
The mini-van then rolled one-and-a-half times coming to rest in the south ditch, 7 miles east of Clinton.
The report says Walton was under the influence of illegal drugs causing the accident that happened about 8:40 this morning at the intersection of State Highway 73 and Custer County Road 2170.
Walton was uninjured in the accident.
Everyone was wearing seatbelts.
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