January 16, 2017
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Four people from out of state are recuperating in Oklahoma hospitals following two separate wrecks on wet and slick, Western Oklahoma roadways.
52-year-old Carolyn Holguin of Silver City, New Mexico is in fair condition after being transferred to OU Medical Center on Saturday afternoon following a wreck on Interstate 40 near Sayre. She arrived at OU in stable condition with head, internal and external injuries following a 30 foot fall.
Holguin had been driving a 2002 Ford that had been involved in a previous collision and was disabled.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol report, Holguin had exited her vehicle, walked around and stood outside of the vehicle on the passenger side when a 2014 Freightliner, driven by 32-year-old Singh Gurinder of Tracy, California, struck the parked Ford pushing it sideways into Holguin. The two vehicles pushed and threw Holguin over a railing where she fell approximately 30 feet to a river bed below the roadway.
A passenger in her vehicle, 75-year-old Lena Holguin, also of Silver City, New Mexico, was sent to Great Plains Regional Medical Center in stable condition with a foot injury.
Gurinder, the driver of the semi, was uninjured.
The accident happened in the eastbound lane on the Interstate near Sayre’s Main Street exit around 5:30, Saturday evening.
A 35-year-old Martinsburg, West Virginia man was admitted in serious condition to OU Medical Center on Sunday evening following another wreck on the Interstate – this time in Canadian County. The man, whose name is being withheld pending next of kin notification, was admitted in serious condition due to internal and leg injuries.
According to the OHP report, the man was a passenger in a 2005 Nissan X-terra driven by 29-year-old Wendy Long of Hagerstown, Maryland. The two were traveling west on the interstate at an unsafe speed for road conditions about 5 pm when Long applied the brakes causing the vehicle to depart the roadway. It rolled approximately three times, coming to rest on its wheels. Both were pinned in their vehicle for less than an hour before being extricated.
Long was admitted in good condition to Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City with a leg injury.
The accident happened in the west bound lane just west of the Calumet exit on the Interstate.
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