By Paul Waldschmidt, staff writer Sand Springs Leader - 08/21/08 

The accident occurred in the eastbound lane of U.S. Highway 64, just west of the 81st West Avenue exit at 2:15 p.m.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Quenton Payne said a 2003 Chevrolet pickup truck, driven by Juan Alaniz Amezcua, of Seattle, Wash., had stopped in the outside eastbound of U.S. Highway 64 to retrieve a piece of furniture that had fallen off another vehicle and which was partially blocking the highway.

A 1997 Ford Contour, driven by Chelsey Hill, 23, of Owasso, “swerved to miss the object on the roadway” and struck Amerzcua’s pickup truck in the rear, Payne said in his report.

The impact sent the pickup truck across three highway lanes, witnesses said.

Sand Springs firefighters had to use hydraulic power tools to extricate Hill from the wreckage of her car.

Hill was pinned in her car for 30 minutes. She suffered head and leg injuries and was taken by ambulance to St. Johns Hospital in stable condition, Payne said.

Amezcua was not injured.

Sand Springs firefighters use hydraulic power tools to extricate a woman from a small passenger car Thursday afternoon on U.S. Highway 64. - Leader photo by Paul Waldschmidt

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