Wagoner County deputies are being credited for likely saving the life of a man who went missing after an accident and was pinned in his car for more than 14 hours well off the road.
Deputies investigated an endangered missing person south of the Coweta area on Oct. 3.
The victim’s daughter reported her father left the home Oct. 2 at 8:30 p.m. to go to the Coweta Dollar store but failed to return. The woman was very worried and concerned about the well being of her father.
She notified the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office the following day at 1:17 p.m. and reported her father missing.
Wagoner County Deputy Bill Sieg determined the man was missing and possibly in an endangered state. He and other Wagoner County deputies and members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol coordinated a search along the route of where the victim would have taken to go to the Coweta Dollar Store.
At 4:20 p.m. on Oct. 3 the victim was located in a very endangered state after being involved in a single-car collision, exited the roadway, and hit a tree well off the roadway in the area of Highway 51B and E. 171st St.
Deputy Sieg jumped a fence and ran to the vehicle and discovered the man was pinned in his vehicle. He was extricated by Sieg and a state trooper and they determined he’d been pinned in the vehicle in excess of 14 hours.
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