November 5, 2020
By News Director Jared Atha
A pedestrian was hit and killed on a highway in western Blaine County on Wednesday.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the accident occurred early Wednesday morning when 23-year-old Justin Gundlach of Norman was driving his 2011 Ford Mustang eastbound on U.S. Highway 270, five and a half miles west of Watonga. The report said that when Gundlach came over a hill, a pedestrian had entered the road and was struck by the vehicle.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
As of press time, the name of the victim has not been released.
It is not known as to why the individual entered the road, but the cause of collision is listed by the OHP as “deliberate intent”.
The driver of the vehicle was injured in the mishap.
An accident in the East Texas Panhandle took the life of a Kentucky man earlier in the week.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, this accident occurred Sunday night at approximately 7:40 p.m. on Interstate 40, approximately five miles east of McLean, Texas. In the report, DPS stated that this area was still experiencing freezing rain.
DPS says a truck tractor towing a semi-trailer was traveling eastbound on I-40 over an overpass. For an unknown reason, the driver struck the concrete barriers on both the north and south side of the overpass before crashing through the metal guardrail.
The semi-trailer rolled over multiple times down an embankment and came to a rest on its wheels in the grassy area between I-40 and the service road on the south side of I-40.
51-year-old Billy Hardin of Owingsville, Kentucky, died on the scene.
32-year-old Sheila Conrad also of Owingsville, Kentucky, was in the sleeper of the semi-trailer at the time of the crash. She was transported to Shamrock General Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
