Three Die In Choctaw County Crash

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on collision Christmas night that claimed the lives of three people and shut down Hwy 70 for about three hours. In one vehicle, the driver, 63-year-old Max Sides Senior, passenger 55-year-old Vicki Sides, and 32-year-old Max Sides, Jr., of Coleman, Oklahoma, were pronounced dead at the scene. Another passenger, a Louisiana woman, was flown to Tulsa. In the other vehicle, 24-year-old driver Fernando Rodriguez and passenger 32-year-old Humberto Rodriguez-Ramirez, both of Johnson City, TX, were transported to Texas hospitals. All of the injured from both vehicles suffered critical leg and spinal injuries.