Press release
On September 20, at approximately 1:53 pm, the Poteau Police Department, Poteau Fire Department, and LeFlore County EMS were dispatched to the 5000 block of North Broadway on a call of a motor vehicle collision with reported injuries and entrapment.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a white 2017 Ford F-250 pickup truck hauling a trailer loaded with dirt and gravel driven by Jonathan Mitchell (40 of Poteau) was stopped facing southbound in the turn lane of North Broadway, waiting to turn left.
A blue 2005 Dodge pickup truck driven by Britton Powers Long (29 of Cameron) was southbound on North Broadway. Witnesses stated that the Dodge was swerving across both southbound lanes. The Dodge swerved southbound into the turn lane and collided with the rear of the trailer attached to the F-250.
The impact with the trailer caused it to swing east into the inside northbound lane of North Broadway, colliding with the driver’s side of a blue 2006 Hyundai Sonata driven by Cynthia Bordelean (45 of Hope Mills, North Carolina) and containing two passengers.
Long had to be extricated from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office will investigate.
No injuries were reported in the other two vehicles.
From Assistant Chief Greg Russell # 652
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