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Oklahoma City police are at the scene of an accident on Interstate 40 Friday morning.
According to officers, a tractor-trailer and car collided on the south side of the Rockwell bridge. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers say the driver of the tractor-trailer fell asleep and caused the collision.
The driver of the car was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the semi was not injured.
A teenager was killed Thursday morning in a head-on collision in Pottawatomie County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
James L. Brown, 16, of Tecumseh, was driving a pickup about 7:35 a.m. eastbound on State Highway 7 near State Highway 102. Brown drove into the westbound lane and hit a vehicle driven by Brandy B. Sanchez, 34, of Tecumseh, troopers reported.
Brown and Sanchez were pinned in their vehicles for about 30 minutes before being freed. Brown was taken to a hospital, where he died. Sanchez was taken to a hospital in good condition, troopers said.
A person was killed in a crash on Interstate 40 in Seminole County early Wednesday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. The name of the driver had not been released Wednesday evening. The crash happened about 2 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-40 at mile marker 198 about 9 miles north of Seminole, the patrol reported. The driver was ejected and the car caught fire. It is not known if the driver wore a seat belt.
A father who was dropping off his child at a school in Nichols Hills accidentally struck and killed him Tuesday morning, according to Oklahoma City police. The incident occurred on the grounds of the Christ the King Catholic School near North Pennsylvania Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, where the boy was a student, officers said.
A fatal crash occurred Wednesday in McCurtain County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.
Connie Henley, 50, of Valliant, was dead at the scene.
Henley was a passenger in a pickup that crashed at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday on a county road 5 miles north of Rufe, the patrol reports.
Seat belts were not in use. The name of the driver has not been released. The pickup went off the roadway and overturned, ejecting Henley.
An off-duty Oklahoma City firefighter died Sunday in an Oklahoma City traffic accident, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Shortly before 7 a.m., Joshua D. Kidd, 31, of Moore, was driving a pickup eastbound on Interstate 240 west of S Pennsylvania Avenue, troopers said.
The pickup went out of control and rolled over, troopers said.
Kidd, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, troopers said.
Fire Maj. Tammy McKinney said Kidd had been with the Oklahoma City Fire Department since November 2007.
An Oklahoma man died Saturday and two people were injured in a wreck on Interstate 35 in Love County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
About 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Zachary Bumgarner 19, of Marietta, was driving a pickup with three passengers south on Interstate 35. The road was icy, and the pickup went off the road and turned over on its side. Troopers said the pickup was traveling too fast for the road conditions.
A woman died Thursday afternoon in a southwest Oklahoma City traffic accident, Oklahoma City police reported.
Police were called to a single-vehicle accident about 12:15 p.m. near SW 119 and Interstate 44, a police Sgt. said.
Officers at the scene said the driver of a pickup lost control, crossed over the service road and drove through a barbed wire fence, Wardlow said.
The driver's name was not released Thursday.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation, police said.