Five people have been killed in area traffic accidents Monday and this morning, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
Three Durant residents, including a toddler, were killed Monday when their car was hit by a tractor-trailer rig four miles west of Kingston.
Erin E. Hudson, 31, and Paul J. Hudson, 2, were dead at the scene of the 12:49 p.m. crash at the Highway 377 and 32 intersection, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.
The name of a third victim, a 33-year-old man, has been withheld, pending notification of next of kin.
According to the patrol, Hudson was westbound on State Highway 32 when she failed to yield from a stop sign and drove into the path of a freightliner that was southbound on Highway 377.
The semi struck Hudson’s Pontiac on the passenger side. All three victims were dead at the scene, the patrol said. The semi driver, Julio Santamaria, 53, Houston, Texas, refused treatment at the scene. A passenger, Nellie Santamaria, 54, Houston, also declined treatment.
The child was in a restraint seat. According to Trooper Josh O’ Steen’s report, it was not known if Hudson and the front-seat passenger wore seat belts. The Santamarias wore seat belts.
In other crashes, two people were killed at approximately 5:25 this morning on Highway 70E, two-and-a-half miles east of Highway 78 in Bryan County. Details on that accident had not been released at press time this morning.