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Oklahoma City police are investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed the driver Thursday morning.
Officers say the crash occurred at Interstate 44 and Lake Hefner Parkway.
Police say the northbound ramp of Lake Hefner Parkway from I-44 has been reopened.
The crash in under investigation, but authorities are not releasing any information about the identity of the female driver killed in the crash.
Oklahoma City police are looking for a driver they say was involved in a hit-and-run accident with a MetroTransit bus. Officers say the crash occurred near North Classen Boulevard and Northwest 10th Street. Authorities say they are looking for a white truck that fled the scene.
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 school bus was involved in an accident with a truck Thursday morning, according to Oklahoma City firefighters. The collision occurred near North Morgan and West Hefner roads, authorities say. There were students on the bus at the time of the crash and firefighters say some suffered minor scrapes, bumps and bruises.
Traffic was backed up Wednesday evening on the Broadway Extension because of an injury accident, Oklahoma City police said.
A three-car injury accident near Hefner Road on the northbound Broadway Extension caused traffic to back up more than a mile during rush hour, police said.
Hardin said she did not know how many people were injured in the wreck or their conditions.
Oklahoma City police said a crash that killed a father of four young children was caused by a man who was high on drugs. Oklahoma City police said Dustin Hall, 31, caused a crash Monday night near NE 10th and N. Standish. According to officers, Hall was high on drugs and admitted to looking down at his phone. Ronald Banton, 27, was killed in the crash. His 5-year-old son JaeRon was in the car with him but was not hurt. Hall was arrested and police said he could be charged with second-degree murder.
A man was arrested Monday after another man was killed in a northeast Oklahoma City traffic accident, police reported. Dustin Shane Hall, 31, was arrested on complaints of driving under the influence of drugs and causing a fatality accident and being without a state driver's license, police said. Ronald Banton, 27, was driving about 11:30 a.m. eastbound on NE 10 near Standish Avenue, when he stopped to turn left. Hall was driving behind Banton and looked down. When he looked back up, he crashed into Banton's car. Banton was taken to OU Medical Center, where he died.
Gregory Loren, 45, died in a head-on wreck about 7:50 a.m. near S Portland Avenue and SW 10, police said.
The wreck happened in dense fog.
A tractor-trailer driver was northbound on Portland when the driver swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid rear-ending stopped traffic. The tractor-trailer hit a southbound car head-on.
Loren, a passenger in the car, was dead at the scene. A woman driving the car was not hurt, Oklahoma City police said. The tractor-trailer driver was taken to a hospital to be checked for injuries.
A man was killed in a collision in southwest Oklahoma City in dense fog Tuesday, police said.
A tractor-trailer and a car collided about 7:50 a.m. Tuesday in the 1000 block of S Portland Ave., police said.