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Prue, OK -
(AP) Two men riding a motorcycle in Osage County near Prue have died in an accident authorities say might have been alcohol-related.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 45-year-old Billy J. Mayer of Prue and 37-year-old Christopher H. Hendrix of Prue died in the accident, which happened about 7:40 p.m. on Monday on a country road northwest of Prue.
Troopers say Mayer was driving the motorcycle and had an odor of alcoholic beverage on him, while Hendrix was a passenger.
Authorities say the motorcycle was traveling at an unsafe speed when it left the roadway to the right, then crossed back over the roadway and left it again to the left before hitting a barbed wire fence. The impact ejected both Mayer and Hendrix about 20 feet.
Both died at the scene.
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