VALLIANT, Okla. (May 21, 2009)--A rodeo announcer was killed when a pickup crashed into him while he was riding a lawnmower in McCurtain County, Okla.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Mark Lynn McGee, 47, was dead at the scene of the crash about three miles north of Valliant, Okla.

The patrol says Stacy Sloan Whiteley, 28, was driving north on a county road when he lost control of his pickup, which ran off the road and slammed into McGee.

The patrol says Whiteley was taken to a Texas hospital in serious condition.

It said alcohol may have played a role in the crash.

McGee announced the International Finals Youth Rodeo in Shawnee for 16 years and also announced for the International Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City.