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Date: 
Saturday, August 23, 2014
The 17-year-old and her passenger, Brittany Lemus, died at the scene. Everyone was wearing seat belts, troopers said. The teen victim has not yet been publicly identified.
Date: 
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Two men died Friday after a head-on collision on U.S. 183 in Custer County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. About 4:50 p.m., Shaun Elston, 24, of Clinton, was driving south about two miles north of Arapaho when his vehicle hit the back a vehicle driven by Kenn Sipe, 70, of Gage. The car Elston was driving then went into a northbound lane and collided with a vehicle driven by Gary Cordes, 60, of Minot, N.D. Elston and Cordes died at the scene. A 13-year-old passenger in Cordes’ car was flown to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Sipe was not injured.

Date: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK
A child is dead after a four-car crash on Highway 169 this morning. The accident happened around 8 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the highway near 76th Street North. All lanes were reopened just after 10:30 a.m. Two SUVS, one car and one truck were involved in the accident that resulted in at least one rollover. An adult and a child were transported from the scene with serious injuries, but another child -- a young girl under the age of 10 -- was pronounced deceased following the accident. The cause of the crash has not been determined.
Date: 
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Two people were killed and one person injured in a head-on collision Monday afternoon in Choctaw. According to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office, at 1:45 p.m., crews responded to the collision at N.E. 23rd and Choctaw Rd. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene, according to Choctaw police. Another person has been medi-flighted to the hospital. That person's condition is unclear at this time. The eastbound lanes of N.E. 23rd have been shut down as crews work to clear the scene of the crash. Drivers are urged to avoid the area.

Date: 
Saturday, April 19, 2014
An El Reno man died Sunday morning after his sports utility vehicle crashed in Sequoyah County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. About 8 a.m., Timothy Davis, 48, was traveling east on Interstate 40 about a mile from the Roland exit. The front tire on the passenger side on the SUV he was driving had a blowout, and the vehicle went off the road to the right and struck two trees, troopers said. Davis, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, troopers said.
Date: 
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK
A Louisiana man died Monday after a head-on collision in Creek County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. About 5:55 a.m., Tilman Palmer, 76, of Amite City, La., was driving a pickup southbound on State Highway 48 just south of Carson Ridge Road. A northbound pickup, driven by Russell Foutch, 47, of Cushing, crossed the center line and hit Palmer’s pickup, troopers said. Palmer died at the scene. Foutch was taken to a Tulsa hospital in serious condition. Neither man wore seat belts, troopers said.
Date: 
Friday, March 7, 2014

An Oklahoma man died Saturday after he was run over while trying to load groceries into his car in a store parking lot, police said. Raymond Carson, 54 of Ames, was at Walmart, 5505 W Owen K. Garriott Road, loading groceries into the back of his SUV when his 9-year-old grandson started the vehicle, Enid police said. The vehicle rolled back and ran over Carson then struck two more cars before coming to rest. Carson was taken to an Enid hospital where he later died.

Date: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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.

Date: 
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Area: 
Tulsa, OK
Two people died in a Mayes County crash Wednesday, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. Benjamin M. Morgan, 20, of Peggs, the driver of a car, and passenger Evelyn M. Hays, 43, of Peggs, both died in a head-on collision with a pickup about 6:20 p.m. Wednesday on State Highway 82 about 3.7 miles south of Locust Grove, the patrol reports. Morgan was driving north on SH 82 when a pickup driven south by Cooper S. Day, 47, of Tahlequah, tried to pass another vehicle that was turning right onto a private drive. Day's pickup struck Morgan's car head-on, the patrol reports.