October 12, 2021
By News Director Jared Atha
A Burns Flat man is in critical condition when he wrecked his vehicle while being pursued by the Custer County Sheriff’s Department on Interstate 40 in Custer County.
According to the collision report provided by the OHP, the wreck took place on Saturday night just after 10:20 near mile marker 74, 6 miles west of Weatherford. OHP says 30-year-old J.R. Williams was being pursued in the westbound lanes of I-40 when his 2004 GMC Yukon struck stop sticks deployed by the OHP. After striking the sticks, the vehicle increased speed, traveled off the roadway to the right and struck a guardrail and bridge abutment. As a result of the crash, the driver was pinned inside his vehicle for an unknown amount of time before being extricated by the Weatherford and Clinton Fire Departments.
Once the pursuit had come to an end, authorities reportedly shut I-40 down for three hours.
Williams was flown to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City where he was admitted in critical condition with trunk internal and head injuries.
In a separate accident that occurred on Monday afternoon, a Leedey man was hospitalized after rolling his semi near Putnam in Dewey County.
OHP says 58-year-old Rex Keith Penry was traveling westbound in a 2007 Peterbuilt on OK-47 two miles south and 6.7 miles west of Putnam when he departed the road to the right, over-corrected, and the departed the road to the left, rolling the truck one ¾ time.
Penry was transported to Great Plains Regional Medical Center in Elk City where he was admitted in critical condition with trunk internal injuries.
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