From Staff and Wire Reports "The Tulsa World," Tuesday, January 13, 2004, Section A, Page 11
Three people died Saturday and Monday in chrashes on Oklahoma roads, state troopers said.
Dead are Lisa Cochran, 33, of Mannford; Linda Lou Barnett, 61, of Alva; and Harold R. Gray, 66, of Newcastle.
Cochran was killed about 5:30 p.m. Saturday while riding in a van that was traveling west on Oklahoma 51 in Tulsa County.
The van, driven by Sharon Kay Wade, 53, of Mannford, veered into the eastbound lane, striking a car driven by Tracy Byard Coombes, 36, of Sand Springs, troopers said.
Cochran was pronounced dead at the scene.
Barnett's 2002 Toyota ran off a road west of Carrier in Garfield County and struck an embankment about 12:30 a.m. Monday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
The car came to rest on its top in 5 to 6 feet of water in a nearby creek, troopers said.
Barnett was pronounced dead at the scene, the OHP reported.
She had been wearing a seat belt, troopers reported.
Gray was pronounced dead at the scene after his eastbound vehicle was struck head-on about 7:20 a.m. Monday on a Grady County road west of Byrd, troopers said.
The driver of the second car, 18-year-old Laura N. Rushing of Blanchard, and her 15 year-old passenger, Joshua T. Rushing, were admitted to a hospital in good condition, the OHP reported.
Gray was not wearing a seat belt, but the Rushings had been.
* * * A QMS Deezyne * * *