The Oklahoma Highway Patrol (OHP) reported David H. Ard Jr. was driving west on the interstate when his 2003 Chrysler Town and Country Van drifted onto the shoulder and struck the tractor-trailer, which was parked along side the road due to an earlier accident.
OHP Trooper Clint Craft reported that Ard was trapped in his van for about an hour before he could be removed by Muldrow Fire and Rescue.
The accident occurred at 8:26 a.m. about one mile west of Muldrow.
Craft reported that Joseph Wayne Bradley, 43, of Elizabethtown, Ky., driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.
Ard was wearing his seatbelt and the van's airbags did deploy, Craft said.
OHP Trooper Russell Knoke assisted Craft with the investigation of the accident, the report indicates.




