Woman Dies After Crash Involving Semi On Highway 412 In Tulsa County

A woman is dead after state troopers said she crashed into a semi on Highway 412 on Tuesday afternoon.

Troopers identified the victim as 38-year-old Jeanine Proctor of Cleveland.

Troopers said their response was quick, because a state trooper heading in the opposite direction witnessed the entire incident.

A trooper driving along Highway 412 near 177th West Avenue, west of Sand Springs, watched as a SUV crashed into the back of a semi that was hauling sand.

"When he turned around to get back to the scene of the crash, he determined that one driver was critically injured at the time, so he started emergency personnel," said Lt. Mark Southall with Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Lt. Southall said the man driving the semi-truck is OK.

"The jaws of life were used to extricate the driver of the car," said Lt. Southall.

Sand Springs Firefighters and EMSA responded. ODOT helped keep traffic under control.

EMSA rushed the woman who was driving the SUV to a hospital after the crash that happened around 1:30 Tuesday afternoon.

Lt. Southall said having a trooper as a witness will help with the investigation, but there are still many unknowns.

"We look at what all the events were that led up to the collision. That actually paints the entire picture," said Lt. Southall.

He said investigators spent hours cleaning up the road and collecting all of the evidence that will play a key part in the investigation.

"All the evidence that were gathered from each of the vehicles such as the electronic data recorders, video that we may have that are in the vehicles," said Lt. Southall.

Lt. Southall said they'll figure out what all of the pieces are, then start putting them together. He said the investigation could take weeks, if not months.