A fatality wreck involving a motorcycle and a car Saturday on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike just outside of Blanchard is under investigation.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Dalas Anderson states that the collision took place at 8:33 p.m. on the Norman Spur of the turnpike at mile marker 106 eastbound, about one mile east of Blanchard in McClain County.
Deceased is Edward C. Tabor, 40 of Purcell. He was pronounced at the scene by Medical Examiner Leroy Johnson with the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office.
Anderson’s report states that a 2007 Honda motorcycle driven by Tabor and a 2021 Kia Soul, driven by Kayte D. Madero, 31 of Tecumseh, were eastbound on the turnpike when for an unknown reason the motorcycle stopped in the roadway and was struck from behind by the Kia Soul.
Both vehicles departed the roadway to the left, before coming to rest against the cable barrier.
Madero was not injured in the collision. Also not injured were three passengers in her vehicle: Logan K. Madero, 34 of Tecumseh; a three year-old juvenile, and a one year-old juvenile, both of Tecumseh.
Trooper Anderson was assisted at the scene by Trooper Russell Boswell, Lt. Eric Foster, Trooper Zachary Wright, Trooper Shayne Ballard, the Blanchard Fire Department, and the McClain-Grady EMS.
