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Marti Graham

Separate One-Car Accidents Claim Lives of Two Drivers

A Heavener man and an airman at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base were killed in separate one-car accidents on Oklahoma Highways Sunday.

Dead are:

Fred W. Gordon, 58, Heavener

Sgt. James Dennis Miller, 32, Clinton-Sherman AFB.

Gordon was dead on arrival at LeFlore Memorial Hospital in Poteau of injuries received in an accident late Sunday morning four miles south of Poteau on US 271.

The highway patrol said Gordon's car was traveling east on the highway when it went off the road and struck a bridge culvert. Gordon was thrown from the car.

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