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An Oklahoma City man died Wednesday afternoon in a crash on Interstate 40 in Caddo County, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. About 5:10 p.m., Kevin Kizarr, 43, was driving west on I-40 when he went off the road at an exit about five miles north of Hinton. He drove up the embankment and the sport utility vehicle rolled, according to a patrol report. Kizarr died at the scene, troopers said. He was not wearing a seat belt.
A Waynoka man died after his vehicle collided with a passing train Monday. Michael Linn Weber, 47, was killed about 5:05 p.m. Monday as he was driving south on County Road 480, a half mile east of County Road 470 in Woods County. He passed over railroad tracks at an unguarded crossing and was hit by an oncoming train that had 88 cars. Weber was ejected from his vehicle and died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to a report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Oklahoma City police are looking for anyone who witnessed traffic fatality Friday to call police to be interviewed. Vickie Ayres, 66, was driving about 6:40 p.m. Friday on a bridge in the 8500 block of NW 39 Expressway near Lake Overholser when numerous vehicles lost control as the bridge iced over, police said. Ayres died in the multi-vehicle crash. The accident is still under investigation and investigators believe that many people who may have witnessed the crash were not interviewed by police because of the inclement weather, police said.
A Vici man died Thursday in a wreck on U.S. 270 in Dewey County, Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers said.
Michael D. Morris, 33, was declared dead at the scene of the wreck about 6:40 p.m. just southeast of Oakwood.
Morris was driving a sport utility vehicle northwest on U.S. 270 when he crossed the center line. Margie M. Palmer, 48, of Tampa, Fla., was driving a tractor-trailer in the southeast-bound lane. She swerved to avoid Morris, but the tractor-trailer collided with the driver's side door of the SUV.
A 13-year-old girl was hit and struck by a passing vehicle on Wednesday as she darted across a five-lane highway, Miami Police said.
Austina Barton, of Miami, died at Baptist Integris Hospital. Barton was trying to get across North Main Street and it was dark outside. One vehicle swerved to miss her and the second vehicle hit her, police said.
Authorities say one person was killed during a police pursuit in Seminole County.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the incident happened early Sunday on Seminole County Road EW 119. A preliminary report says a police officer had been chasing a vehicle for several miles when the vehicle lost control and rolled several times.
Authorities say the driver was thrown from the car and was run over by the police vehicle. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 20-year-old woman died Sunday afternoon after the vehicle she was in flipped four times on U.S. 169 near 51st Street, Tulsa police said.
Samantha Ruvalcaba was killed in the crash, which happened about 1:13 p.m., said the Tulsa Police Department's traffic safety coordinator.
Ruvalcaba was a passenger in the vehicle, which was cut off by another vehicle, causing the driver to over-correct. The driver of the vehicle Ruvalcaba was in is being treated at Saint Francis Hospital and is expected to be OK, police said.
At 12:38 p.m. Friday, Corrine McLaud, 81, of Dustin was driving west on State Highway 84 near Weleetka when her car ran off the right side of the roadway and struck a tree.
McLaud was taken in critical condition to Henryetta Medical Center in Henryetta. She died at about 6 p.m. from injuries she sustained in the crash, troopers said.
Shortly before 11 p.m. Friday, Anika Miles, 41, of Tulsa was driving west in the wrong lane of N 76th Street in Tulsa when his vehicle crashed into a pickup driven by Beau Wells, of Owasso.
Miles was pronounced dead at the scene, and Wells was taken to St. John Hospital in Tulsa in critical condition with internal injuries.
About 9:45 p.m. Friday, James Betchan, 70, of Covington was headed north on Interstate 35 just north of Perry when his Dodge S250 ran off the roadway and into a ditch, according to the troopers.
Betchan was pronounced dead at the scene due to a previous medical condition, which troopers said caused the crash. No one else was injured in the crash.