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Sun July 20, 2008

Accidents claim three Oklahomans

 
 
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From Staff Reports

The deaths of three people killed in wrecks Saturday night and Sunday morning were reported by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol on Sunday.


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• Gary Miner, 59, Okay.

Miner's motorcycle hit the back of a tractor that was turning onto a private drive from the southbound lane of State Highway 16, one mile south of Wagoner in Wagoner County, about 10:50 a.m. Sunday, according to a patrol report.

Miner was taken to Wagoner Community Hospital, where he died, the patrol said.

The driver of the tractor, Iver L. Garcia, 29, of Wagoner, was not injured.

Miner was not wearing a helmet.

• Talia Harvey, 18, Ponca City.

Harvey died at the scene of a two-vehicle wreck south of Blackwell in Kay County, the patrol said.

About 5:10 p.m., Harvey stopped at a stop sign on Hubbard Road at U.S. 177, then failed to yield to a pickup driven by James Burnett, 46, of Blackwell, the patrol said. The pickup struck Harvey's car on the driver's side.

Harvey's passenger, Courtney Hughes, 17, of Blackwell was flown to a Wichita, Kan., hospital in critical condition, the patrol said.

Burnett and his passenger, Mark Kowalsky, 50, of Blackwell were not hurt.

Harvey, Burnett and Kowalsky were wearing seat belts, the patrol said. It is not known if Hughes was wearing hers.

• Wesley Michael Kellogg, 19, Guthrie.

Kellogg died at the scene of a one-vehicle wreck north of Edmond in Logan County, the patrol said.

About 10:50 p.m., Kellogg and two others were northbound in a pickup on S Bryant Road north of Simmons Road when they approached a dead end at a high rate of speed, the patrol said. The pickup struck a guardrail and went airborne through nearby trees, ejecting all three occupants.

Troopers said they did not know who was driving the pickup. Timothy Earl Slawson, 16, of Oklahoma City, was flown to OU Medical Center in critical condition. The third occupant, Antonio Armond Andrews, 23, was treated and released at the same hospital.

In its preliminary accident report, the patrol said alcohol was a factor in the wreck.

No one in the pickup was wearing a seat belt, the patrol said.

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