A truck collided with a tree Sunday afternoon in Cartwright due to unsafe speed, according to a Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper report.
Travis Wigington, 28, of Cartwright, was driving a 1997 Chevrolet pickup at 12:58 p.m. Sunday southbound at an unsafe speed when he failed to make a curve. Instead, his vehicle careened off the road and struck a tree. According to Trooper James Reinecker’s report, Wigington’s driving ability was impaired by drugs.
Wigington was transported to the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma in Durant with head, arm, leg, trunk and internal injuries, according to the report. He was treated and later released.
One passenger, female Bobbie Large, 18, of Durant, was transported to the Texoma Medical Center and admitted with head injuries. She is listed as in fair condition. A second passenger, Phillip Wigington, eight months old, was transported to the Texoma Medical Center with possible head injuries. He was treated and later released.
A child restraint was in use at the time of the wreck and the driver used a seatbelt, although it is unknown whether the passenger used a seatbelt, according to Reinecker’s report.
In other accidents, two people were ejected from a boat early Saturday evening on Lake Texoma near Soldier Creek in Marshall County.
According to the Lake Patrol detachment of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, James Randel Waters, 50, Oklahoma City, was flown to Parkland Hospital, Dallas, Texas, to be treated for trunk and head injuries.
The patrol said that Waters was a passenger in a 30-foot Catamaran boat driven by James Frank Voyles, 36, Oklahoma City. According to the patrol, the vessel was traveling approximately 85 miles per hour when it hit a cruiser weight that caused it to make a hard, right turn.
Both occupants were ejected. Voyles refused treatment at the scene for trunk injury.