John Gravelle, 37, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was working under a parked semi on Interstate 35 when another semi hit it Friday night. He did not survive. Neither did the second service worker next to him, a person police have not named.
It happened in Love County. The parked truck was on the shoulder, and the two men were under it doing repairs. That is a normal day for a service worker. The truck breaks down, and they come to it, wherever it sits.
Then a second semi ran into the back of that parked truck. Both workers were killed.
Donald Freeman, 79, of Omaha, Nebraska, also died in the crash. That makes three people dead from one hit on a highway shoulder.
The driver of the parked semi was hurt. No details about those injuries have been shared.
Gravelle was 37 and lived in Ardmore. Freeman was 79 and came from Omaha. The second worker’s name has not been made public, so nobody outside the family knows who that person was.
For the families, Friday started like any other day. Now they are planning for the worst week of their lives.
What caused the second truck to hit the first one has not been made public. Our thoughts are with the families of John Gravelle, Donald Freeman and the second worker.
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