Friday, January 9, 2015

WAGONER WOMAN KILLED, MAN CRITICALLY HURT IN TRUCK WRECK NEAR TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA



WAGONER WOMAN KILLED, MAN CRITICALLY HURT IN TRUCK WRECK NEAR TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA




Posted: Friday, January 9, 2015 8:26 pm 



TAHLEQUAH — A 74-year-old Wagoner woman died Friday after a collision between a pickup and a tractor-trailer in Cherokee County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.



Gladys Lord was taken to Tahlequah City Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, troopers said.



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She had been a passenger in a Chevrolet S-10 that collided with a tractor-trailer rig about 11:10 a.m. on U.S. 62 about two miles west of Tahlequah.



The driver of the pickup, identified as Jack Cochrane, 77, of Wagoner, was critically injured. Troopers said he was taken to Tahlequah City Hospital, as well, before being transferred to Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa.



The truck driver, Sidney Allen, 57, of Tulsa, reportedly was not injured.



The conditions of both drivers and the cause of the wreck remained under investigation, troopers said.



Further details about the crash were not available Friday evening.