Last Thursday, reports quietly hit the Oklahoma media wire that Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s prayer warrior – First Lady Sarah Stitt – was involved in a two-vehicle injury car accident at NE 36th and Lincoln.
According to media reports, Ms. Stitt was uninjured in the accident, but the other motorist was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and released. Here are the 82 words the Tulsa World dedicated to the story:
First lady Sarah Stitt is uninjured following a Thursday two-vehicle collision in Oklahoma City, said Sarah Stewart, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.
Sarah Stitt was driving north on Lincoln Boulevard when her vehicle collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Northeast 36th Street at 1:54 p.m., Stewart said.
“It is still under investigation,” Stewart said of the crash. “One individual was transported out of the other vehicle with minor injuries, and the first lady was not injured.”
Yep, that’s it. We just had a little car accident where, fortunately, nobody was seriously injured. Things like that happen all the time. Move along. There’s nothing else to see here.
Or is there???
On Friday night, we received some dispatches via the Ogle Mole Network with more details about the accident. Update: We also acquired some photos from the scene.
THREAD: We’re learning more details about the injury car accident involving First Lady Sarah Stitt that occurred yesterday afternoon at 36th and N. Lincoln…
— thelostogle (@TheLostOgle) December 19, 2020
According to the Ogle Mole Network, the First Lady t-boned a motorist after running a stoplight while, for some reason, driving a state vehicle…
— thelostogle (@TheLostOgle) December 19, 2020
Yep, that’s right. Sarah Stitt apparently ran a red light and T-boned a motorist while driving a state vehicle in the middle of the afternoon. And we’re not talking about any state vehicle. We’re hearing it was an OHP law enforcement equipped SUV! You know, the fancy ones with flashing lights and sirens and dark tinted windows.
In addition to all that, I guess this isn’t the first time she’s wrecked a state car:
We’re also hearing this may not be the first time the First Lady has been involved in an accident while driving a vehicle owned by the state. It also may not be the second!
— thelostogle (@TheLostOgle) December 19, 2020
Wow. Did she get driving lessons from Preston Doerflinger or something? Is she trying to turn the state car fleet into her own personal Demolition Derby? It’s a shame she doesn’t have her own security detail to drive her around.
I couldn’t find any info about these other accidents online. According to the Ogle Mole Network, that’s because the Governor’s Office and their friends at the OHP did a good job keeping them quiet… for now.
Anyway, if these reports from the Ogle Mole Network are correct, and as we know – they usually are – they lead to some questions like…
“Why was a rich woman who can literally afford to drive any vehicle she wants plowing around town in a big state-owned SUV if she doesn’t work for the state?” or “What caused her to run a red light and strike a car in the middle of the afternoon?” or “Did she have to take a drug test or anything like that?”
It may take a while for those questions to be answered. Although the accident occurred in Oklahoma City, the case was conveniently handled by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
We’re waiting for official details to be released, but it may be awhile – the case is being handled by OHP, the agency that protects and serves the governor – and not the OKCPD.
— thelostogle (@TheLostOgle) December 19, 2020
I called the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety to get more details about the original wreck and was instructed to go to the open records request route. Hopefully, that request works out better than our previous ones.
I guess we’ll follow this story and let you know if there are any updates. Hopefully, the real journalists who are supposed to cover this state see all this, pursue the story, and then don’t give us any credit when / if they report what they find. That’s usually how it works.
UPDATE: We acquired the following photos of the accident via the Ogle Mole Network. Stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
Box wine for a Christian ladies lunch?
Unauthorized use of an Oklahoma state vehicle gets one fired for a state employee. Is Sarah Stitt a state employee?
36th and Lincoln. Historically known for prostitution.
Maybe she was headed to the Remington Park Casino and was late for the hot seat drawing?
You would think Lackmeyer would like to tackle a juicy story like this, but he usually waits for someone else to do the legwork and then rewrite it as his own.
Sometimes it takes an obscure local social blog to cover the stories that the bigger medial outlets don’t cover.
Can’t cover? Or won’t cover?
I got downvoted the other day when I mentioned her car wreck in another thread about our strange governor. But I had a feeling that there was more to this story than the big-city papers were reporting. Their articles were oddly brief.
The Guv would be wise to remember that the cover-up almost always becomes a bigger problem than the matter being concealed.
The followups to those brief mentions appear to be even briefer — as in non-existent. Can’t find any of the other Ogles covering it either.
Nice work moles & TLO.
I totally agree, this is why I like The Lost Ogles and the Black Chronicle, they will get the news the main stream media can’t or don’t want to touch. I shared it with a few journalists from News 25, 5 and 4.
Well at least she’s not a home wrecker!
I don’t know, I’d say her husband’s hands off approach to the pandemic is wrecking a lot of homes. I know she’s not the governor herself, but she doesn’t seem to disagree with his homicidal policies, so she’s certainly not a home helper.
She don’t disagree and it was confirmed when she did the news conference at the high school talking about COVID with her mask under her nose!
You’d think a woman with 14 kids would know how to drive an SUV.
+1
Plus it comes with Red /blue/clear/yellow lights that flash & who knows what else that thing does ,Ooo don’t forget the noise maker with a 3 to 6 tones switch .. wonder where the ” Imagine that” is placed ,right under the RHIP
Seeing as how Mary Fallin also got into some…uh…”trouble” in an OHP car, maybe those associated with the Guv’s office would be better off using the streetcars.
OHP – keeping the truth face down in Lake Hefner for governors and their ladies.
Crazy woman driving a state vehicle, and she’s not a state employee. Imagine that! It’s time for Oklahoma to drain the shit from the swamp.
:::drain the shit from the swamp.:::
Or the Stitt, as the case may be.
I am an actual state employee and there is no way anyone would let me take OHP SUV anywhere.
Hmmm, sure they are not related but remember when Abby Broyles was in an accident, also T-Boned with the assailant disappearing into the night? Could Sarah Stitt be an enforcer all cases against those who wrong her husband?
The real questions are why exactly was she driving a state vehicle, and exactly the vehicle that one would expect Kevin Stitt to be driving. From the pictures it looks like the OHP, or the Governors security detail got there pretty fast. Like Mary Fallin, she probably keeps those boys on speed dial when she gets into trouble.
Had it happened with the family mini-van, with a routine ticket for the person at fault, an 82 word write up in the paper would be about right. Not sure the spouse of the Governor is allowed to drive whatever state vehicle they would like, but maybe that is part of the Oklahoma Standard.
If she was on state business of some kind, can see her being transported in a state vehicle by an OHP employee. If it was not state related business, she probably should have taken an Uber if she didn’t had her car.
Beginning to wonder if the cover up is more to cover up the OHP letting her take one of their vehicles. Perhaps she didn’t get permission, and knew where to find the keys. That would be another reason for the coverup. Maybe this is the Stittmobile, or the company car that the OHP uses to transport him to and from work every day from his home in Tulsa. Maybe Kevin keeps a spare set of keys so he can run off to a crowded public space or shopping center when things get boring around the capitol.
There are just so many questions, and it is a shame the local media only wants to rip and read Saxum written press releases from the state as opposed to doing reporting. As the indicted Oklahoma Cabinet member likes to say “only in Oklahoma.”
I would like to know how much time stittforbrains spends on the road every day being driven between cities and also how much time it leaves him to be in the governor’s office doing the work he’s assigned.
Perhaps there’s a state plane that chauffeurs him? And that’s why his wife gets to use the suv for afternoon breaks?
Don’t they make “cattle guards” or some other type ramming type device to protect the front end of her truck? Looking at that other car my back and neck are already hurting and I don’t even live in the City.
36th and Lincoln is part of the capitol complex. DPS Turf.
In that area at that time of day chances are she nailed a real State Employee who I’m sure will get the sh!t end of the Stitt.
Boo.
I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for what happened.
We’ll just never hear it. No accident report, toxicology report, witness statements. Nothing to see here, keep moving.
If this continues, stand by for the TV ads, “Have you been injured by a state-owned vehicle driven by Oklahoma’s First Soccer Mom? You may be entitled to significant compensation. Don’t be bullied by cover-ups and hush money.”
I would like to read the final report when available. All, i hope alot of the questions raised by others in the forum are answered.
Her OHP boyfriend loaned her his car?
LoLz
She doesn’t ever stop at red lights because God will protect her.
Privileged lead-foot.
Certainly, must not be held accountable in state vehicle.
Double standard.
Oh, shit!!!
Smells like bullstitt to me. Smells like favoritism to me. Looks like a real issue for Stitt.
Wow. My department has to drive 10-year-old suburbans with 150000+ miles and report when we stop to use the bathroom.
Melania light!!
Wait. Are you saying she used to “model”? Or that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Kevin? Or that she doesn’t give a F&#* about Christmas? Or that she doesn’t really care about the pain and suffering of victims of natural disasters? Any elucidation would be helpful.
Betting money is that she was drunk or high…but with the Oklahoma Standard we’ll never know the truth! You know she wasn’t tested in any way like the rest of Oklahoma drivers would have been!
CORRUPTION and COVER-UPS….IMAGINE THAT!!
Above average chance she was texting.
that was my first thought too.
This seems the most likely cause. Even people under the influence of some mind-altering substance (alcohol? pills?) can usually manage to stop at red lights and not T-bone other cars.
But I’m not ruling anything out. Mrs. S would add to a long line of political wives with substance abuse problems.
It’s damned suspicious that the OHP waved off the OKCPD to do its own “investigation.”
Maybe ODOT should issue a hazard warning whenever Mrs. Stitt gets behind the wheel.
Come over your phone as a, “Blonde Alert”.
Apologies to many blonde friends – these jokes just write themselves.
Perfect. Like an Amber Alert. I don’t know her first name.
Since she’s not a state employee and not supposed to be driving a state vehicle, who is liable for the damage and hospital bills? Stitt personally? I’d love to be a personal injury lawyer on this one.
I drove past this right after it happened and had no idea who it was, or I would have taken photos from the other side (I was driving north on Lincoln and these photos appear to be taken from the east and facing west, the non tbone side). When I saw it, there were only two firetrucks on the scene and no ambulances yet. One firefighter was headed toward the black SUV with those huge jaws of life clippers. All the driver airbags were blown in the SUV, and I saw what looked like legs with pinkish purple leggings very still in the driver’s seat, like the driver was slumped over and not moving. It looked like the driver from the other car was standing and talking to firefighters. I am completely surprised there were only “minor injuries” because the brief glimpse of that scene was pretty disturbing.
Now that I look at the photos again, I’m kind of confused that they don’t look as bad as what I saw around 1:45 p.m. on Thursday. Maybe it’s because the driver door is shut. The door was open with blown airbags and someone inside when I saw it.
36th and Lincoln is part of the capitol complex. DPS Turf.
Not really, Capitol is around 23rd/Lincoln, and 36th/Lincoln is just normal properties and streets.
Please provide followup when theinformation is available. Don’t let this ve swept under the rug. Many thanks
Another reason to visit Oklahoma during the pandemic as her hubs is asking people to do. There’s a chance you’ll get to meet our first lady up close and personal. I’d sure like to be the lawyer representing the other driver.
That’s a $2 million ad campaign to lure people to the state with the third highest COVID-19 infection rate in the country. Did the good gov sell his malaria medicine to pay for it?
2 Mil ad campaign? Yeah right. Wonder how much of them bucks went to the shoe department at Dillards.
Mrs. Stitt would just buy her sandals a size or two too small. But, the money went out of state, like a lot of the state’s attorney fees.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Kevin Stitt is the Driver in vehicle that crashes causing signficant damage and possuble injury. WHERE IS THE FOLLOW UP. PLEASE OBTAIN AND PUBLISH THE ACCIDENT REPORT.
Yep …….waiting on the follow-up