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- Oklahoma-State-parade-crash. 4 dead, 40 injured by DUI driver. photo courtesy of KSAT
- FOUR DEAD, 40 HURT
From Stillwater Police Department:
A fourth death has occurred as the result of the traffic collision that occurred during the OSU Homecoming Parade today at Main St. and Hall of Fame Ave. The collision occurred at 10:31AM.
3 adult victims were pronounced dead at the scene earlier today. A fourth victim has died of injuries sustained in the collision. That fourth victim was a 2 year old boy.
As of 7:00PM the injured list has grown to 44 persons in addition to the 4 fatalities.
The driver of the car arrested at the scene for Driving Under the Influence, 25 year old Adacia Avery Chambers or Stillwater, remains in jail.
A traffic collision occurred at the termination point, Main St. and Hall of Fame Ave. of the OSU Homecoming parade. The collision occurred at 10:31 AM.
The collision involved 1 car, a 2014 Hyundai Elantra, traveling southbound on Main St. It struck an unmanned police motorcycle before driving into a crowd of spectators.
As of 1:20 PM we can confirmed there are: THREE fatalities, EIGHT critically injured persons (7 were flown from scene by air ambulance 1 was transported to Stillwater Medical Center.), NINE seriously injured persons transported to Stillwater Medical Center and SEVENTEEN walking wounded who travelled to Stillwater Medical Center by private vehicle for treatment.
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The driver of the car was arrested at the scene for Driving Under the Influence and taken to the City of Stillwater Jail. The driver is Adacia Avery Chambers. She is a 25 year old female Stillwater resident.
The Stillwater PD collision reconstruction team is still at the scene investigating the collision at this time.
We are asking anyone who witnessed the accident or who has video of the collision to please contact the Stillwater Police Dept. at 405.372.4171.
Further, Stillwater PD has established a clearing house for patient names as they become available. Family members searching for loved ones whom they cannot contact otherwise need to call 405.372.4171.
From KSAT:
A fourth person has died after a car hit spectators during Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade in Stillwater. A 2-year-old died at OU Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City, hospital spokeswoman Vallery Brown told CNN. Forty-four people suffered injuries in the incident.
A woman suspected of drunken driving crashed a car into a crowd of spectators at Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade, killing three people, authorities in Stillwater said Saturday.
Another thirty-four people were injured, eight of them critically, according to a police spokesman. Seven of those eight were taken by helicopter to a hospital, while 10 spectators — one critical and nine “seriously injured persons” — were taken by ambulance. Another 17 “walking wounded” took themselves to the hospital, according to Capt. Kyle Gibbs.
The names of those killed and injured weren’t immediately released.
Gibbs said the car’s driver, Adacia Avery Chambers of Stillwater, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence and taken to the city jail. She is not believed to be an OSU student, he said.
According to a police statement, Chambers drove her 2014 Hyundai Elantra into an unmanned police motorcycle before careening into the crowd of spectators.
When asked by a reporter whether the 25-year-old Chambers was “obviously intoxicated,” Gibbs said, “Certainly probable cause for the arrest, yes sir.”
Gibbs said that Oklahoma state law mandates blood tests for any “serious fatality accident.” The results of those tests won’t be known for several days, he said.
The deadly crash occurred at 10:31 a.m. (11:31 ET), just hours before the school’s centerpiece homecoming event — a football game between the nationally ranked, undefeated OSU Cowboys and the University of Kansas — and only two blocks from the soon-to-be jam packed 50,000-person Boone Pickens Stadium.
The festive scene turned into one of horror, one the university president called a “horrible tragedy.”
“We are shocked and heartbroken by this horrible tragedy,” said President V. Burns Hargis. “The Oklahoma State University Homecoming parade is the most wholesome of events and to have it marred in such a way is incomprehensible.” ....MORE