August 23, 2021
By News Director Jared Atha
Two people from Guthrie are in a hospital after being involved in a two vehicle accident in Washita County Friday night.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the wreck happened right before 10 p.m. when the 2017 Ford Escape driven by 21-year-old Callie Lynn Cortez of Guthrie was traveling southbound on OK-44, while a 2016 GMC Sierra driven by 48-year-old Jackie Gay Aldridge of Sentinel was heading westbound on OK-152.
At the intersection of the highways, the Ford Escape failed to stop which resulted in the GMC Sierra crashing into it.
The report says that the Ford Escape rolled over one time and had Cortez pinned in the vehicle for about 15 minutes until officers from the Burn Flat Police Department freed her. Cortez was transported to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City in critical condition with head, trunk internal and trunk external injuries. The passenger 23-year-old Christopher Michael Cortez, is also at OU Medical Center in stable condition with a head injury.
The three people in the GMC Sierra, Aldridge along with 47-year-old Brandi Lynn Hamilton of Elk City and a 15-year-old female also from Elk City were treated and released from Great Plains Regional Medical Center.
In a separate accident that occurred on Thursday afternoon in Greer County, a Hobart man was hospitalized after wrecking his motorcycle near Granite.
OHP says 51-year-old Dennis W. Tarvis was following the 2014 Toyota Avalon driven by 67-year-old Avery A. Eeds of Elk City too closely on OK-9, west of Granite. When the Avalon slowed down, Tarvis took evasive action but departed the roadway to the right. Tarvis was transported to and admitted into Elkview General Hospital in Hobart with arm, trunk internal, trunk external and leg injuries – last listed to be in fair condition.
Eeds was uninjured in the crash.
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