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Two law enforcement officers and a suspect were killed in separate automobile crashes following a pursuit in southwestern Oklahoma.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, said two law enforcement vehicles crashed south of Dill City on State Highway 42 on Thursday morning. The suspect's vehicle crashed in a separate location.
The lawmen worked for the Washita County Sheriff's Office and the Burns Flat Police Department, according to the Sheriff of nearby Custer County, whose agency was covering calls for the departments involved.
A man was killed Wednesday morning in a head-on collision in Caddo County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Billy McCarver, 76, of Wapanucka, was driving a car about 10:40 a.m. westbound on State Highway 22 about half a mile west of Cat City Road near Caddo, troopers said.
Cody Elderige, 24, of Caddo, was driving his pickup eastbound on State Highway 22 and went left of center and hit McCarver's car head-on, troopers said.
McCarver was pinned in his car and was pronounced dead at the scene, troopers said. Elderige was taken by medical helicopter to a hospital.
A Colbert man died in a Bryan County crash early Monday when a driver tried to elude police, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.
Neil Allen Johnston, 31, died about 12:55 a.m. Monday on a county road just south of Colbert.
Johnston was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Kellis Glenn Barnett, 26, of Colbert. Barnett refused treatment at the scene for possible leg and internal trunk injuries, the patrol reports.
Union City is mourning the loss of an eighth-grader who died in a car crash Friday.
The school district canceled its basketball games Friday night after Preston Williams died.
Williams, a student-athlete, died in a crash on Evans Street near Highway 152. Two other students were injured in the single-car wreck.
There will be a candlelight vigil at the Union City baseball field tonight and a funeral Wednesday at a church in Mustang, according to The Minco-Union City Times.
A Waurika woman died Monday and an Enid couple were injured after a wreck in Stephens County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Alma Lindesmith, 66, died at the scene of the wreck about 6:30 p.m. just south of Comanche on U.S. 81. She was not wearing a seat belt, troopers said.
Lindesmith was driving a sport utility vehicle south on U.S. 81. The vehicle struck a deer and ran off the road. When it returned to the pavement, it slammed into a northbound sport utility vehicle being driven by James Faubion, 59.
A person died Saturday in a fiery accident on Interstate 40. the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
The person, whose name has not been released, was driving a tractor-trailer about 10:40 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 40 about four miles east of Sallisaw.
The truck went off the road and hit a concrete culvert, causing the vehicle to catch fire, troopers said.
The person was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police here on Monday identified an officer and a man involved in a fatal automobile-pedestrian accident on Saturday. Adam Christopher Johnson, 33, of Yukon, was hit about 4:50 a.m. in the 400 block of S Ranchwood Boulevard by a Yukon police car driven by Cpl. Mike Stilley, the Yukon Police Chief said. The area of the accident was a few blocks south of the Yukon Police Department. Corn said investigators believe Johnson was lying in the roadway before the collision. The accident is under investigation, police said.
Christina Finney, 23, of Fort Cobb was killed in a Caddo County car accident.
Finney was driving south on a Caddo County road when the car left the road, struck an embankment and rolled onto its top, according to a patrol report.
Finney died at the scene, troopers said. She was not wearing a seat belt.
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.
Clark Vanpelt died about 4:45 a.m. Thursday on 106th Street North just east of 161st East Avenue, the patrol reported.
Vanpelt was dead at the scene from massive injuries.
Vanpelt was driving east on 106th Street North when he lost control, went off the roadway and hit a fence and a tree. He was partially ejected. It is not clear whether he wore a seat belt, the patrol reported.
The roadway was icy and conditions were foggy at the time of the crash, the patrol reported.