Oklahoma City, OK
A North Texas teen is in intensive care in an Oklahoma hospital after a skydiving accident on Saturday. Makenzie Wethington, 16, of Joshua, fell approximately 3,500 feet to the ground when something went wrong.
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A North Texas teen is in intensive care in an Oklahoma hospital after a skydiving accident on Saturday. Makenzie Wethington, 16, of Joshua, fell approximately 3,500 feet to the ground when something went wrong.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a 20-year-old worker was killed in a forklift accident at a Sapulpa manufacturing plant.
Two law enforcement officers and a suspect were killed in separate automobile crashes following a pursuit in southwestern Oklahoma.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fred Keith Reddick 90, was driving about 9:55 a.m. Thursday northbound on U.S. Highway 270 near Beaver. His car drove off the roadway and went back across the roadway into a ditch. The car hit a tree stump and flipped, troopers said. Reddick was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Rebecca Ford was driving about 8:50 a.m. Wednesday westbound on State Highway 3 in Coal County. A semitrailer driven by Perell Monday, 56, of Enid, went left of center and hit a pickup and horse trailer driven by Logan Reed, 64, of Coalgate, troopers said.
Norman police are investigating a single-vehicle injury collision. Officers say a 2010 Dodge Ram pickup was traveling west in the 2600 block of West Main Street about 1 a.m.