JUNE 6, 2015
RUSH SPRINGS, OKLA. (AP)
Oklahoma highway officials say a state Department of
Transportation worker was killed when he was struck by a vehicle in a work
zone.
An ODOT spokesman says 47-year-old Gordon Pipkin died Friday
after he was struck while working with a maintenance crew on U.S. Highway 81
near Rush Springs.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports that the vehicle crashed
into a drainage ditch after striking Pipkin and investigators were trying to
determine what caused the driver to veer of the road and hit Pipkin.
ODOT spokesman Cody Boyd said Pipkin was a transportation
equipment operator and had worked for ODOT since May.