Local area members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol worked two fatality accidents Friday, one in which a father and three children died west of Altus, and another near Mangum in which a woman was thrown from a van.

According to reports, the Friday morning accident happened when Richard Allen Flood, 44, of Olustee, failed to yield at a stop sign and pulled out in front of a semi truck driven by Darryl Dean Ruth, 52, of Elgin. Ruth struck the driver’s side of the Flood vehicle.

Pronounced dead at the scene were Flood and his three children, Stephen Flood, 9; Jeremiah (Micah) Flood, 8; and Joshua Flood, 5.

The mother, Ruby Flood, 39, who was also a passenger in the vehicle, was transported to the OU Medical Center by Air-Evac in critical condition with head and internal injuries, but was reported to be in stable condition Saturday morning.

The driver of the truck refused treatment at the scene.

In a separate accident Friday evening, Jose Acuna, 58, of Orange Grove, Texas, was traveling eastbound on US 283 one mile east of Mangum, when he departed the roadway to the right and then over corrected, causing his vehicle to overturn one time, ejecting a passenger, Paula Mendoza, 63, of Mathis, Texas, from the vehicle from the rear passenger window. She was pronounced dead at the scene from head injuries.

The vehicle overturned again, crushing Mendoza and ejecting another passenger, Lisa Lopez, 21, also of Orange Grove, from the vehicle through the rear passenger window.

Acuna was transported to Wichita Falls, Texas, by Medi Flight and was listed in critical condition with head injures. Lopez was transported to Jackson County Memorial Hospital by Greer County EMS and was listed in stable condition with arm injuries. Another passenger in the vehicle, Domingo Mendoza, 66, of Orange Grove, was taken to the Mangum Hospital by Greer County EMS and was treated and released. The fourth passenger, Naomi Acuna, 57, of Orange Grove, was taken to Mangum Hospital then to Jackson County Memorial Hospital by Greer County EMS where she was listed in critical condition with head, trunk, internal, external, arm and leg injuries.