Update [September 8, 2015]: James Jeter passed away from his injuries.
Johnston County, OK — There was an accident reported in rural Johnston County near an area called Emmett. The officials with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said a truck driver from Howe, 59-year old James Jeter, was taken to a hospital after his gravel truck overturned on Highway 78.
The accident happened just south of Emmett, the news reports said, though the map below just shows the Milburn area of Johnston County.
Apparently, Jeter was driving his white gravel truck along the highway when something went happened and the truck tipped over onto the driver’s side.
Jeter was hurt by the accident and had to be taken via helicopter to a hospital in Plano, TX. At the last update, he had critical head and neck injuries. It doesn’t look like anyone else was in the truck at the time. The cause of the accident wasn’t clear at the time the OHP released their reported on Monday, August 10.
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