Four people died in a fiery crash Tuesday along a busy northwestern Oklahoma highway, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report released this morning. The highway remained closed for more than 11 hours Tuesday and reopened shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Donald Seachrist was a construction zone flagman at the scene of the accident.

“All I saw was the frontal view” (of the accident), Seachrist said. “I was standing there, and I saw a red pickup suddenly fly into the air and burst into flames. There was another car in front of it that got smashed into the back of the semi in front of it. That car was just a molten ball of iron. I didn’t see anybody get out of it.”

Construction worker Joan Blake was driving the pilot car in the construction zone where the accident occurred. Blake was leading a line of cars when she saw the accident in her mirror. Source: newsok.com

The construction workers were fortunate that they were not injured. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) speculates that over 1,000 construction worker injury related deaths will occur this year, most of which could have been prevented.

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