Supreme Court of Oklahoma October 13, 1998, 89075 (Lucas v. Triad Drilling Co.)

WATT, J.

¶ 1 The workers’ compensation claim from which this appeal arose involved an injury sustained by Tommy Lucas when the driver of a pickup truck in which Lucas was a passenger lost control of the pickup and wrecked it. The driver of the pickup was killed, and Lucas, who had been riding in the bed of the truck with another passenger, was paralyzed from the mid-chest down.