Posted on 03/24/2022 8:40:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The six high school students were packed into a small, 2015 Chevy Spark with just four seats - and only the two teenaged girls riding in the front seat were wearing seatbelts, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday.
The six girls were all students of Tishomingo Public School, according to the district's superintendent. The driver was 16 years old, three of the other girls were 15 and the other two passengers were both 17.
The two vehicles collided around 12.19pm on Tuesday at the intersection of U.S. 377 and Oklahoma 22 in Tishomingo, a rural city of about 3,000 located about 115 miles southeast of Oklahoma City.
Troopers said the girls' vehicle was traveling eastbound on Oklahoma 22 and stopped at a stop sign at the intersection of U.S. 377 just before 12:30 p.m.
OHP Trooper Shelby Humphrey said Tuesday night that the girls attempted to turn at the intersection, which maps show is at the end of a 90-degree curve of U.S. 377 from east to south.
The girls' car was struck by the semi which was approaching from the east on U.S. 377, KXII-TV reported.
The force of the crash moved the car about approximately 300 feet from the intersection, KXII-TV reported, leaving it in a mangled mess with doors and ripped off.
According to the crash report released by OHP on Wednesday morning, the circumstances of the wreck remain under investigation.
Four of the girls, including the driver, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, according to the OHP report. The other two girls died after being transported to the hospital.
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Not a full stop. Over loaded vehicle.
“Witnesses reported the (vehicle) made a ‘rolling stop’ at the stop sign and entered (the intersection),” before the violent collision with the truck that was hauling rocks, according to a statement from NTSB spokesperson Peter Knudson.
A merging lane that is head on?
The alignments are really ugly, but pulling away from that stop shouldn't be any different than from any other stop controlled intersection.
Sometimes people die because they don't realize it is only a two way stop. But here it looks like she thought she could beat the truck and maybe overestimated the ability of her vehicle to accelerate with the load it was carrying.
So now the semi driver has a fatal accident on his record - and in his memories- because a young and very inexperienced girl couldn’t drive properly.
Sorry they died so violently. And stupidly.
It is very sad.
A Chevy spark box on wheels
Every now and then, but not often enough, local police are out enforcing the laws. I'll usually park and go thank them for performing this duty.
Driving in DFW gets more haszardous with each passing day. Inattentive drivers are part of the problem, overly aggressive drivers exacerbate the problem.
Good pics
There but for the grace of God, go I.
When I was a kid, I drove like a real moron. It’s a wonder I didn’t kill anybody or myself.
I have a teenage daughter. These type of stories exceptionally troubling on a few levels. Truly praying for the families.
“Six teenage girls on a high school lunch break were killed”
Many schools have stopped that practice.
and at 16, it’ll be harder to sue for negligence having six in the car...
Don’t know about Oklahoma, but here’s the Maryland law: “Minor drivers are restricted about who they can have with them in automobiles. If you are under the age of 18 and have a provisional license, you may not drive a car with passengers under the age of 18 for the first 5 months (151 days) of having that license. “
No one is going to sue the driver’s family. It would be unthinkable.
Very very sad. Six grieving families…..
Youth especially doesn't understand those rigs simply cannot stop on a dime, like their own vehicles sometimes can.
Same here.
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