WEST SILOAM SPRINGS, Okla. — A man’s body was found along U.S. 412 in West Siloam Springs in the early hours of this morning, according to Police Chief Larry Barnett.
Barnett said his department received a call about a body in the road about 5:30 a.m. He estimated the man had been run over by four or five different vehicles between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m. and couldn’t be immediately identified.
“There is no way to even be able to tell if it was foul play or if the person was just walking down the road, or if they got into a fight,” Barnett said. “There were no vehicles around, we have no idea where he came from.”
The body was found in the eastbound lane, Barnett said. The speed limit along the stretch of four-lane highway is 70 mph, he said.
Barnett said his department has interviewed the drivers of several vehicles who ran over the body after it was laying on the road as well as several drivers who witnessed the body in the road. None of the drivers reported initially hitting the body and everyone who saw it thought it was a deer, he said.
The body was transported to the medical examiner’s office in Tulsa and will have to be identified by fingerprints or DNA, Barnett said. The Oklahoma State Police and Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation are helping with the investigation, Barnett said.
If anyone has any information about the incident, hey are asked to call the West Siloam Springs Police Department at 918-422-5810.