(The following appeared on the Enid News & Eagle website on September 1.)
ENID, Okla. — The driver of a truck hauling propane gas struck by a train south of Medford Friday morning has died.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported late Sunday night Dennis Wayne Etherton, of Tahlequah, died Sunday evening at the burn center in St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kan.
He had been hospitalized in critical condition since the accident with third-degree burns over 50 percent of his body.
Etherton is the third fatality from the accident, which also claimed the lives of the two Union Pacific trainmen — conductor Larry B. Williams, of Oklahoma City, and engineer Richard D. Pardarvis, of Anadarko.