December 20, 2021
By News Director Jared Atha
A semi-truck driver died in Custer County on Friday after he crashed into a different semi-truck.
According to the collision report provided by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 47-year-old Kim C. Gardner of Santaquin, Utah, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Interstate 40, nine miles west of Clinton.
OHP says the accident occurred when a 2019 Freightliner driven by a Bakersfield, California, man was stopped for traffic in a construction zone in the westbound lanes of I-40. Gardner was driving a 2015 Peterbilt semi-truck west on I-40 when he came upon the Freightliner and failed to stop, crashing into the rear of the vehicle.
Gardner was ejected from the Peterbilt as it went off the right side of the road and into a ditch.
Debris from the crash struck a 2018 Chevy Silverado.
Neither the driver of the Freightliner nor the driver of the Silverado were injured.
OHP says the collision is still under investigation.
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