Heavy rain inundated parts of southern Oklahoma Wednesday, leading to deadly flash floods. Two drivers drowned after their vehicles were trapped in floodwaters.
Slow-moving thunderstorms drenched and washed out dozens of roads in Southern Oklahoma Wednesday, and at least two people drowned after being trapped in their cars amid the floodwaters.
In Pottawatomie County, a sheriff’s deputy rushed into the water to try to save a driver, but the deputy got caught in a powerful current and had to be rescued. According to the sheriff’s office, a team on a rescue boat was able to safely pull the deputy from the water; he was treated and released from a hospital. The driver could not be reached in time and he died at the scene.
In nearby Lincoln County, a driver drowned after a vehicle got trapped along a highway near Prague, the Associated Press reported.
