December 6, 2021
By News Director Jared Atha
A Sentinel man died from injuries he suffered in a vehicle crash on Friday.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 50-year-old Richard Lee Barge was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
In the collision report provided by the OHP, the crash occurred at 11:40 a.m. on State Highway 44, about a half mile south of Sentinel.
Officials said Barge was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe north on Highway 44 and went off the right side of the road at a curve. He over corrected and went off the road’s left side. The vehicle struck a barbed wire fence and rolled an undetermined number of times before coming to rest on its driver’s side.
He was ejected from the vehicle during the crash.
OHP officials listed “unsafe speed” as the cause of the collision, and indicated that the driver was not wearing a seat belt.
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