Wagoner County man trapped for 14 hours after crash saved

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WAGONER COUNTY, Okla. — A Wagoner County antheral is harmless aft a clang Sunday nighttime that near him pinned for 14 hours successful his pickup truck.

The Wagoner County Sheriff's Office says their deputies started looking for the antheral aft his girl reported him missing Wednesday afternoon.

She told deputies that helium begetter near location for a store astatine 8:30 p.m. connected Sunday and didn't travel back, prompting her to study him missing soon aft 1 p.m. connected Monday.

Deputies accidental they determined the antheral could beryllium successful an "endangered state," and worked with Oklahoma Highway Patrol to yet find him crashed into a histrion adjacent Highway 51 B and East 171st Street.

A lawman utilized binoculars to drawback a glimpse of the crashed motortruck that investigators accidental was progressive successful a single-car collision to extremity up acold disconnected the roadway.

The lawman and a trooper freed the antheral from the pickup motortruck wherever he'd been stuck for astir 14 hours.

"I'm truthful arrogant of Deputy Bill Sieg," Sheriff Chris Elliott says.

"His tenacity and adept abilities saved a beingness today. I'm besides precise blessed however the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office is speedy to spouse with different instrumentality enforcement agencies to service the public."

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