Motor vehicle accident in Harney County on HWY 395
By Mindy Gould on Thursday, May 11th, 2023 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
Harney County-Yesterday, May 10, 2023 around 2pm Oregon State Police responded to a motor vehicle accident on HWY 395 approximately 11 miles out of Burns.
A truck pulling a trailer loaded with transformers was heading southbound when the driver, David Prock, 42, of Saint Augustine Florida, fell asleep while negotiating a curve. The vehicle subsequently traveled off the southbound shoulder and into a creek. Upon impact, a passenger, Thomas Letbetter, 30 of Fayetteville North Carolina, was asleep in the sleeper and traveled through the cab and struck the windshield, sustaining no-life threatening injuries.
Multiple transformers fell off the trailer and into the creek, leaking mineral oil into the water.
Letbetter was transported to Harney District Hospital and Larkin Towing was dispatched to recover the truck and trailer.
Prock was issued a citation for failing to drive within the lane. ODOT, Burns Fire Department and the Harney County Sheriff’s Office assisted on the scene.
