The Oklahoman

Seven people died on Monday in Oklahoma accidents

- FROM STAFF REPORTS

Seven people died in state roadway accidents Monday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.

Kimberlie M. Beckworth, 25, of Tushka

Beckworth died of injuries suffered in an accident about 10 p.m. Monday in Atoka County about 4 miles southeast of Caney.

Beckworth was a passenger on an all-terrain vehicle driven by David E. Mofield, 26, of Atoka. Mofield was treated for injuries at an Atoka hospital.

Passenger Eric W. Loudermilk, 24, of Tushka, was flown to a Plano, Texas, hospital where he was treated for injuries.

Mofield was driving north on a county road when the vehicle went off the roadway at a curve and overturned. Neither Beckworth nor Loudermilk wore seat belts. Mofield wore a seat belt. No one wore a helmet.

Krystal Miller, 32, of Coweta Unidentifi­ed child, age 4 Miller and a 4-yearold child died about noon Monday on State Highway 72 about 1.5 miles south of Coweta in Wagoner County, the patrol reports. The patrol withheld the child’s name.

The driver of a sport utility vehicle, Margaret Ann Hyeche, 54, of Coweta was taken to a Tulsa hospital with injuries.

A passenger in the SUV driven by Hyeche, Joyce Ann Cade, was taken to a Tulsa hospital.

The patrol did not release details about what happened in the collision.

Hyeche and Cade wore seat belts. Miller and the child did not wear seat belts.

Erin Van Horn, 40, of Tulsa Boy, age 11, of Tulsa Boy, age 10, of Tulsa

The patrol said Van Horn and two passengers whose names were not released, died and four others were injured in a crash Monday afternoon south of Purcell.

The patrol reports Van Horn, 40, and two children, an 11-year-old boy and 10-year-old boy, died from injuries suffered in the crash of a sport utility vehicle Van Horn drove in the northbound lanes of Interstate 35 about 3:25 p.m.

The patrol reports those injured were three 13-year-old girls and a 7-year-old boy, all of Tulsa, who were taken to area hospitals.

Moyses Trejo-Ortiz, 19, of Broken Bow

Trejo-Ortiz died about 7 a.m. Monday on a county road about a mile west of Broken Bow in McCurtain County, the patrol reports.

Trejo-Ortiz was driving north on Lukfata Church Road when he failed to yield at a stop sign and drove into the path of a pickup driven east on Airport Road by Halli Mitchell, 24, of Broken Bow.

The pickup hit the side of the vehicle driven by Trejo-Ortiz.

Mitchell was treated at an Idabel hospital for injuries and released. A girl, 4, and a boy, 2, both of Broken Bow, were passengers in Mitchell’s pickup. The children were not injured. Seat belts were in use by all.

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