A wrong-way crash yesterday on US-77 in Cowley County leaves one man dead and a woman and a child injured.
Authorities responded around 10am yesterday morning to reports of a vehicle driving the wrong way on the highway. Cowley County Sheriff;'s Deputies arrived on the scene to find that a 2002 Dodge Dakota driven by 91-year-old Walter Thurman of Ark City had struck another vehicle head-on. Thurman was pronounced dead at the scene while the driver of the other vehicle and a minor child were taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing.




