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By News Director Jared Atha
High wind gusts appear to be the blame for a two vehicle accident in Washita County Wednesday afternoon that took the life of a Tuttle woman.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the accident occurred just after 3:00 p.m. in the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 near mile marker 45, one mile west of Canute.
OHP says after a 2012 Ford F-250 pulling a box-type utility trailer had passed a semi, a gust of wind caused the trailer to overturn. The driver, 45-year-old Shane Lucas of Tuttle, applied his brakes but lost control of the vehicle. This caused the truck and trailer to jackknife, and travel sideways in front of the semi. OHP says the semi attempted to swerve to the right to avoid a collision but struck the pickup on the passenger side causing both vehicles to depart the roadway to the right. The pickup would then roll one half time, coming to rest in the north ditch of I-40.
Covid-19 vaccination distribution has begun in Elk City.
According to Elk City Fire Department Chief Medical Officer Kyle Chervenka the vaccine has arrived and is starting to be given to essential personnel, including Elk City first responders.
Chervenka says the city is following the state’s phased distribution plan, which says phase one will have the vaccine distributed to front-line health care workers, that include doctors, nurses, and health care providers. In fact, in a Facebook post it was announced that employees at Great Plains Regional Medical Center are in the process of receiving the first dose.
Also employees and residents of long-term care facilities and nursing homes are included in phase one. However, according to Campus Director Cathy Henderson at Baptist Village Communities in Elk City they do not have a date as to when the vaccine will be administered.