OK Man Christopher Pritchett ID’d As Victim In Tuesday Pryor Fatal Vehicle Crash Involving Big-Rig

MAYES COUNTY, OK. (THECOUNT) — Christopher Pritchett of Pryor, Oklahoma, has been identified as the victim in a fatal Tuesday morning vehicle collision in Mayes County.

Pritchett, 25, was killed in a two-vehicle collision involving a big-rig Tuesday morning near Pryor.

According to reports, Pritchett was operating a Ford Focus on OK-20 near S 439, when the vehicle came into rear end contact with a slow-moving semi-tractor, operated by a 48-year-old Glenpool man around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Pritchett pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries.

The truck driver refused treatment at the scene.

The cause of the crash remain under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Mayes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,259. Its county seat is Pryor Creek. Named for Samuel Houston Mayes, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1895 to 1899, it was originally created at the Sequoyah Convention in August 1905 – Wikipedia.