September 10, 2018
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Two people are recuperating in separate hospitals following two separate wrecks on Sunday. One of the injured is a two-year-old.
The juvenile male was injured in a wreck Sunday morning about 8:14, east of Eldorado in Jackson County. He was first taken to Hardeman County Hospital in Texas before being transferred to a Wichita Falls Hospital arriving in stable condition with internal and external injuries. The child was a passenger in a 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer driven by 23-year-old Elizabeth Reese of Quanah, Texas. Reese was treated and released for her injuries. A second child, a 3-year-old male was not injured in the accident.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Reese was traveling on State Highway 6 about three miles east of Eldorado and when she attempted to avoid a collision with another vehicle, she over corrected causing her vehicle to enter a broad slide where it then overturned one-and-a-half times coming to rest on it’s top.
Seat belts were in use.
There’s no mention of the other vehicle in the report nor is there mention of who was driving or if they were injured.
A Watonga man is in fair condition at an Oklahoma City hospital following another Sunday morning wreck, this one in Blaine County.
35-year-old Daniel Paul Rutz was air transported to OU Medical Center with head, arm and leg injuries suffered in an accident about 10:30 on County Road 720, about a tenth of a mile east of County Road 2520.
The OHP report says Rutz was westbound and failed to negotiate a curve. He departed the roadway and hit a tree.
The accident is under investigation.
Rutz was not wearing a seat belt.
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