A third fatality occurred Thursday night in eastern Oklahoma
when a Craig county man was jarred from his pickup truck,
then run over, three miles west of Vinita on U.S. 66.
The highway patrol listed the known dead as:
WILLIAM ATWINS RODMAN, 44, route 5, Vinita.
The patrol said Rodman and Howard Lay, also route 5, Vinita,
were traveling east on U.S. 66 west of Vinita. Lay’s
brother, Joe Lay, was driving a second pickup truck,
accompanied by Tom Cooper, 65, Vinita.
The first truck stopped suddenly and the second one rammed
it from the rear. Rodman was thrown out and run over by the
second vehicle.
Troopers Tom Ballard and Bob Green said all three of the
other men were being held in the Craig county jail while the
investigation is being completed.
From The Oklahoma, 2/26/1954
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
