THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A PICKUP TRUCK CRASH was able to make a connection to 9-1-1 Saturday morning around 3:30 am. The truck was carrying four passengers, all of whom are believed to have been drinking, when it blew through a stop sign and then crashed through a gate leading into a rock quarry. After crashing the gate, the speeding truck went up an incline and was temporarily airborne before landing on two large boulders that had been placed as barricades to prevent vehicles from driving into the quarry. After teetering on the boulders for a few seconds, the truck fell off and plunged approx. 170 feet to the bottom of the pit.
Tulsa World photo
Three of the four were killed immediately, but the survivor, a 19-yr.-old girl, was able to get a cellphone signal. Unfortunately she didn’t know where she was, but the dispatcher was able to discern that she was in the north area of the city before they lost the signal.
Police, fire and EMS spent about an hour searching in vain for the wreck until 5 am when the survivor got another call through. After 45 minutes of careful questioning, the dispatchers narrowed the location down to the rock quarry where the rescuers eventually found her.
KOKI-TV Ch. 23 filed this video report from the crash site in the quarry:
The caller seems to be the person who was driving and she is hospitalized in critical condition. She is expected to survive, however.
Tulsa dispatch has released four 9-1-1 tapes in which you can hear the dispatcher talking to the woman and finding out the necessary information. She did a good job, you’ll agree. You can listen to the tapes HERE.
The Tulsa World has more of the STORY HERE.
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