Bobby Gordon, 54, of Checotah and a woman whose identification is being withheld until her next-of-kin is notified were killed yesterday in a single-car wreck just south of Checotah on Texanna Road, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Gordon was driving a 2001 Dodge Dakotah northbound on the road “at a high rate of speed,” the patrol reported, adding that he was passing another vehicle on a downhill road, lost control, left the roadway to the right and struck a tree.
The pickup’s airbags were not deployed, and neither Gordon nor his passenger were wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the vehicle, the patrol reported. they were both pronounced dead at the scene.
