Deadly Memorial Day Weekend On Area Roads

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May 26, 2020

By News Director Jared Atha

It was a deadly weekend on western Oklahoma roads during the holiday break.

A Sayre man died when his motorcycle crashed in Beckham County early Saturday morning.

According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 45-year-old William C. Lowe was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Interstate 40 approximately three and a half miles west of Elk City.

O.H.P says Lowe was riding a 1995 Honda motorcycle west on I-40, when at approximately 5:19 a.m. he failed to negotiate a left-hand curve and went off the right side of the road, laying the bike down.

Lowe was not wearing a helmet when the crash occurred.

A separate motorcycle accident on Saturday took the life of a Custer City man in Custer County.

According to the O.H.P., 37-year-old Jordan Earls died on Sunday from injuries he sustained in the accident that took place Saturday night on a county road 2 miles east of Custer City.

The report stated that Earls was driving a 2018 Yamaha 125 motorcycle on a county road at an unsafe speed, lost control of the vehicle and overturned it. Earls was transported to Weatherford Regional Hospital and later transported to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City where he was admitted with head and arm injuries.

The report indicated that Earls was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.

In Jackson County a Stillwater woman died in a one vehicle accident west of Altus on Saturday night.

According to the O.H.P., 48-year-old Tammy Sebrant was the passenger in the 2007 Ford pickup driving by 49-year-old William Sebrant also of Stillwater. The report stated that the accident is still under investigation, however Tammy Sebrant was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Jackson County E.M.S.

William Sebrant was transported to a Wichita Falls, Texas hospital and admitted in stable condition with internal trunk injuries.