2 Persons Lifeless Soon after Motorcycle, SUV Crash In Leonard

Two people today are useless tonight just after OHP claimed a motorcyclist crashed into the aspect of an SUV whilst going via Leonard. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said the motorcyclist was driving at substantial speeds and the driver of the SUV had stopped to turn into the nearby write-up business.

We talked to the household of the guy who was on the bike. They told us Tyler Jackson of Haskell was 24 and the father of a one-year-old little one.

One particular of the witnesses reported, when he saw Jackson go by, he believed to himself ‘that driver requirements to slow down’ just moments just before the crash.

“Everybody’s in shock. You should to, No one thinks what occurred right here. They can not believe that it. Ideal in my entrance doorway truly,” said Richard McElhaney. Richard McElhaney passes time every day by watching automobiles travel previous his porch. “I could have pulled throughout there and I could’ve been in this,” said McElhaney.

McElhaney walked throughout the avenue this afternoon to the Leonard Submit Business office in close proximity to Freeway 64 and 161st East Avenue when he read a crash. “It was just like a shotgun. It was just like a shotgun. And it can be sad to just see harmless lives go to waste,” said McElhaney.

Various OHP troopers from bordering companies responded. The Bixby Law enforcement Office and Bixby Hearth Division also assisted, along with EMSA and the Health care Examiner’s Office. Bixby Police assisted block off visitors for a couple hrs.

“We have one intention and that is to put collectively a complete and entire investigation as very well as takin care of the desires of the spouse and children at the time,” said Lt. Mark Southall, OHP.

McElhaney reported the total factor tends to make him terribly sad. “That is a awful sight,” said McElhaney.

State troopers say 60-yr-previous Sheri Tomlinson of Bixby was in the SUV and died at a Tulsa clinic. “Someone’s daily life was changed forever currently,” said Southall.

He reported the motorcyclist was heading east, rapid and the driver of the SUV was turning remaining when hit. “It is not a incredibly rapidly pace limit coming as a result of in this article. Reduces pretty a little bit on freeway 64 and this is a US Freeway that operates as a result of right here, but nevertheless you will find people that cross this highway on a every day foundation or men and women that are pulling into the post office,” said Southall.

“It is really an open state,” said McElhaney. McElhaney explained it truly is a rough matter to happen in a tiny town. “Just you should slow down folks in Leonard, be sure to, since I are living listed here. It is unfortunate. It truly is unhappy,” said McElhaney.