Traffic accident assistance

Submitted to the Central Oklahoma REACT Team 6023 Board of Directors:

At 17:41 pm, I was driving south on S. May, crossing underneath the I-240 bridge, when I saw flashing lights ahead of me. I noticed that EMSA and fire were on the scene of an injury accident, but OCPD had not arrived yet. The left hand lane going south bound on S. May was blocked by the accident (I was in the right-hand lane), so I signaled, moved over to the left-hand lane, turned on my emergency strobes....and just sat there. My main purpose was to block the left-hand lane just before the accident scene so that motorists would have plenty of time to move over to the right-hand lane. OCPD arrived at the scene, but they were mainly concerned about working the accident, so I stayed stationary, assisting in traffic control.

As I watched in my rear-view mirror, I noticed that drivers were indeed heeding my emergency lights and moving over at a safe distance behind me. I never had to get out of my truck. Once the wrecker arrived, he loaded the damaged vehicle and pulled off. Once he pulled off, the officer in front of me turned off his overheads, so I turned off my strobes and left the scene at 18:13 pm.

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