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July 26, 2008

Mooreland man killed in motorcycle accident

A Mooreland man was killed Friday in a multiple-vehicle accident three miles north of Watonga.

Jason Charles Patterson, 34, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report.

The accident happened at 5:30 p.m. Friday on Oklahoma 8.

A passenger on Patterson’s 1999 Harley Davidson motorcycle, Misty Fargo, 23, was taken by helicopter to University of Oklahoma Medical Center and admitted in guarded condition with head, trunk, arm, leg and internal injuries, according to the report. Neither Patterson nor Fargo was wearing a helmet.

Fargo was ejected an unknown distance, according to the report.

According to the report, a 1996 Ford Ranger pickup driven by Angeline Sankey, 40, of Canton, was northbound on Oklahoma 8 and stopped to make a left turn. A 2001 Chevrolet pickup, driven by Teresa Lynn Hays-Kuehn, 52, of Whitney, Texas, was northbound, too, and passed Sankey’s vehicle. Then, Ginger Lynn Merrill, 33, of Enid, driving a 2000 Chevrolet pickup northbound also tried to pass Sankey’s pickup and hit it on the side. Merrill’s pickup then collided head-on with Patterson’s motorcycle, according to the report.

Neither Sankey nor her passenger, Perry W. Brooks, 40, of Watonga, was injured. Merrill was taken to Watonga Hospital, where she was treated for head, trunk and arm injuries and released, according to the report. Hays-Kuehn was not injured.

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