Published: June 30, 2008 08:06 am      

Troopers work two wrecks

A small car rear ended a stock trailer while passing the scene of another accident on Highway 69 north of Adair Friday morning.

The first wreck occurred at 7:45 a.m. in the southbound lane. Manuel Diaz, 31, Wagoner, was driving a semi pulling a double-trailer just north of Safari Joe’s. The back trailer of the semi flipped on its side after the rig drifted into the grass at the side of the road.

Diaz said he must have gone to sleep. When he pulled back onto the highway, the back trailer overturned and clipped the rail of a bridge. The rig came to a stop on the west side of the road at the south end of the bridge.

Adair Fire Department and Mayes Emergency Services Trust Authority were on scene waiting for Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers to arrive when the second accident occurred at approximately 8:15 a.m.

Tasha Dove, 17, and Betty Willis, 70, both of Adair, were in a 2004 one-ton Chevrolet flatbed pulling a 24-foot Gooseneck stock trailer. As they were passing emergency vehicles at a slowed speed, a 1999 Oldsmobile Alero struck them from behind.

“We didn’t even know we’d been hit,” said Willis.

“We thought we’d hit a bump in the road,” said Dove. They were hauling

a load of cattle to the

veterinarian.

Twenty-three-year-old Amie Miller of Vinita was driving the Oldsmobile Alero. Her passenger was Adam McEwan, 31, also of Vinita. The Alero rear ended the stock trailer a short distance north of the overturned semi trailer.

Willis and Dove said no damage was done to the stock trailer. No one in either accident was transported to the hospital.