Man found dead in woods two days after fleeing I-44 crash

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol is investigating after the body of a man involved in a car crash on Thursday along Interstate 44 in northeast Oklahoma City was found two days later in a wooded area off the highway.

According to OHP spokesman Lt. Mark Southall, troopers responded to a vehicle collision Thursday on I-44 near mile marker 138, just south of Arcadia Lake.

“Before we got there, one of the parties involved was being difficult with EMSA,” Southall said. “As our trooper was arriving, the person that was being difficult fled into the woods after the collision.”…

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