Driver Hospitalized After Rollover Crash Near Verdigris

Emergency crews responded to the scene of a rollover crash that injured one person and ended with a car lying upside down on train tracks near Verdigris in Rogers County on Thursday morning.

According to Verdigris police, the driver was traveling at a high rate of speed when they exited the highway near South 4120 Road and crossed over U.S. Route 66. Police said that was when the driver hit an embankment and flipped the vehicle several times before landing upside down on the train tracks.

Verdigris police officer Anthony Martinez said that he was driving near U.S. Route 66 around 2:30 a.m. when he heard a car horn. According to officer Martinez, he began looking around and spotted the overturned vehicle on the tracks and ran to help.

“Oh it’s very nerve-racking when I got up there the horn was blaring, they were pinned. There was no me getting her out, no way. Her arm was under the vehicle, so I just had to wait, got the trains shut down," said Officer Martinez.

According to police, they are unsure how long the vehicle and the driver were sitting on the tracks before help eventually arrived.

Verdigris police said that a life flight helicopter was called in to help, but the driver was instead taken to the hospital in an ambulance with multiple serious injuries.

The train tracks were closed off to oncoming trains and southbound lanes of U.S. Route 66 were also been closed as crews worked to move the vehicle. Both have since reopened.