Separate state traffic accidents claim three lives
Separate state traffic accidents claim three lives

Published: May 10, 2008

A Broken Bow man died in a motorcycle crash and two of-state residents died from traffic accidents on Oklahoma roads, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Albert Cain, 54, Broken Bow

Cain was driving a 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle west on State Highway 3 west of Broken Bow when he ran off the road and struck a tree just about 12:15 a.m. today, troopers said.

Cain was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, Jasamyne Curtice, was taken in stable condition to Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas, the patrol said.

Neither was wearing a helmet.

Stephen R. Melton, 54, Coffeyville, Kan.

Melton died just after noon today at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa from injuries he received in a head-on collision about 9:45 p.m. Friday, the patrol said.

Investigators said he was driving on the wrong side of U.S. Highway 75 just north of Copan in Washington County when he slammed into a vehicle driven by Laura June Heape, 34, of Independence, Kan.

Melton's vehicle rolled and he was pinned for 30 minutes. He was taken to the hospital in poor condition, troopers said.

Melton was not wearing a seat belt, according to the patrol.

Heape and two teenage passengers in her car were each taken in fair condition to Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville. Cameron was later transferred to St. Francis.

Christopher Wayne Morris, 23, Seligman, Mo.

Morris was a passenger in a 1994 Chevrolet Camaro that crashed about 6:30 p.m. Friday on U.S. Highway 60 near Wyandotte in Ottawa County, troopers said.

The driver, James Ray Larson, 21, of Pea Ridge, Ark., ran off the right side of the road, overcorrected and slid into a vehicle driven by Alfred William Plant, 47, of Wyandotte.

Troopers said the victims were taken to Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., where Larson and Plant were in serious condition. Morris died Saturday.

None of the victims was wearing a seat belt, the patrol said.

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