Authorities have arrested a 24-year-old man accused of causing a fatal accident after the stolen utility truck he was driving crashed through a fence at Tulsa International Airport and onto a highway.
Oklahoma Highway Patrolman Dwight Durant says troopers arrested the man Wednesday afternoon, about 12 miles from where investigators say he abandoned the truck after the accident.
Durant says a trooper chasing the truck across airport property early Wednesday rammed the vehicle with his cruiser as he saw it barreling toward a parked jet. The trooper worried there were passengers onboard the plane.
Durant says the maneuver diverted the stolen truck, which then crossed over a runway twice, burst through a fence and drove onto U.S. 75, where it crashed head-on with another vehicle. One person in the other vehicle was killed.