A Prague man was struck and killed in a traffic collision on I-40 in Pottawatomie County and two Seminole residents were critically injured in a wreck in Lincoln County the same day.
And a Dale man was struck and killed on a highway east of Elk City in Beckham County and another person was injured in that collision, state troopers said.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Kevin Robison identified the Prague man as Robert Scott Cappetta, 57. He was pronounced dead at the scene by REACT Ambulance and transported to Brown’s Funeral Home.
Robison, who investigated the accident along with Trooper Shane Ballard, said Cappetta was driving a 2005 Ford van westbound on I-40 when the vehicle went off the roadway, struck a guardrail and continued onto the grass shoulder where it caught fire.
The trooper said Cappetta got out of the vehicle, walked up onto the interstate and was struck by an unknown tractor trailer hauling grain/corn.
The trooper stated it was dark at the time of the fatal collision which occurred at approximately 6:28 a.m. on I-40 westbound just east of the Earlsboro exit in Pottawatomie County.
Robison said condition of Cappetta before he was struck is under investigation. He reported condition of the unknown driver as under investigation and listed the cause of the collision as under investigation.
The two Seminole County residents were injured later that afternoon in a traffic collision at SH 102 and County Road 990, six miles north of Midway in Lincoln County.
State Trooper Nathan Battershell said Shawn Allen Gray, 44, was driver of a 2006 Volvo semi who was transported by Midwest EMS to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City where he was admitted in critical condition with trunk internal, head and leg injuries.
A passenger, Jose De Jesus Santillan Lopez, 29, was transported by Air Evac to OU Medical Center and admitted in critical condition with head, and trunk internal injuries, Battershell reported.
The trooper said the truck was traveling southbound on SH 102.
The rear wheels went off the roadway to the right, the driver overcorrected, the rear wheels then went off the roadway to the left, the driver overcorrected again.
The truck then turned sideways and rolled approximately four times, coming to rest on its top, Battershell reported.
Gray, the driver, was ejected about five feet and the passenger was ejected approximately 50 feet from the resting point, the trooper said.
Seat belts were equipped in the truck, Battershell reported, but not in use and it had airbags but they didn’t deploy, the trooper said.
Condition of the driver at the time of the wreck and the cause of the collision are both under investigation.
Assisting Battershell, of Troop A, were Trooper Matthew Conway of the Traffic Homicide Division, Wellston Police and Fire, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Southwest Fire Department, REACT EMS, Midwest EMS and Air Evac.
The Dale man killed Sunday night was identified by the OHP as Joshua Rogers, 18.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by Elk City EMS.
State Trooper Darrell Splawn reported that Rogers sustained injuries to his head, arms, legs, trunk internal and trunk external.
He was transported to Martin Duggar Funeral Home in Elk City.
The trooper said one other person, Jack Parker, 18, of Marshall, Ark., also suffered an arm injury and was treated at an Elk City hospital and later released.
The trooper reported that a 2004 Chevrolet pickup driven by Landon Musick, 33, of Elk City, was westbound on Business 40 about one mile east of Elk City shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday and that three pedestrians, Rogers, Parker and 20-year-old Trystan Barker, also of Dale, were walking westbound on Business 40.
Two of the three, Rogers and Parker, were struck by the pickup, Splawn reported. Barker was not injured, the trooper said.
Musick was not injured nor were two children, ages 3 and 1, who were passengers in the pickup, the trooper stated.
He listed the condition of the driver as apparently normal at the time of the collision and that cause of it is still under investigation.
Splawn was assisted by several state troopers and several other agencies.