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By Staff reports
Published: 7/6/2009 2:24 AM
Last Modified: 7/6/2009 4:20 AM

Two men drown Saturday in separate lake accidents

Two men lost their lives in separate drowning incidents at state lakes on Saturday, including one who was thrown from a personal watercraft.

Officials say Vincent Carl Tate, 43, of Hobart drowned late Saturday afternoon following an accident on Lugert-Altus Lake.

Tate was riding on a 2007 Yamaha watercraft about 5 p.m. Saturday when he was ejected because of rough water. He was knocked unconscious and then drowned, troopers said.

Tate was wearing a life jacket, a report said.

Authorities say Shawn Randall Thogmartin, 37, of Ardmore drowned about 5:10 p.m. Saturday at Lake Murray State Park near Marietta.

Thogmartin had been complaining of low blood sugar all day, an Oklahoma Lake Patrol report stated. He went out into the water with his children and was found later by swimmers under water.

Thogmartin, who had not been wearing a flotation device, was transported to a hospital in Ardmore, where he was pronounced dead.

Vinita man killed when his cycle runs into fence

BIG CABIN — A Vinita man was killed Saturday when he lost control of his motorcycle and ran into a fence.

The accident, which killed 30-year-old Oliver Mark Simpson III, occurred about 5:30 p.m. Saturday on County Road 300 just north of Big Cabin in Craig County, Oklahoma Highway Patrol officials said.

Officials say Simpson was eastbound at a high speed when he lost control, ran off the road and struck

a barbed-wire and pipe fence.

Simpson died at the scene from massive head and other injuries, a report stated.

The report said Simpson, who was wearing a helmet, was driving at an unsafe speed. He was thrown about 200 feet from the point of impact. By Staff reports

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CarolsMan, TULSA (7/6/2009 9:57:09 AM)

Here is another case of a motorcyclist killed even though he was wearing a helmet...it probably broke his neck....there has always been the thought that helmets kill more than they save....same thing goes with seat belts...i had a state trooper tell me that he had NEVER taken a dead person out of a car that the person was wearing a seat belt...i ask him how long he had been on the force...i suspect that it might have been a week or less......

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