Students of Tishomingo Public High School died in a crash on Southern Oklahoma Highway.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said six teenage students have been killed in a two-vehicle collision in southern Oklahoma. According to OHP spokesperson Sarah Stewart, the students were in a passenger vehicle that collided with a semi about 12:30 pm on Tuesday at a three-way intersection on a major Oklahoma highway.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol confirmed that the crash at US 377 and Oklahoma 22 in Tishomingo involved two vehicles, a semi-truck, and a passenger car. Tishomingo is a rural city located about 100 miles 161 kilometers southwest of Oklahoma City.
Stewart said: “We don’t know the full nature or details of what caused the crash, only that the car, at some point, was at this stop sign and that in the following moments the semi hit them.”
“When we got to the scene, you could see the car about 100 feet or so from the intersection completely totaled. We’re not sure how much of that was caused by the crash or by emergency responders, but the scene was heartbreaking,” she added.
Stewart said she did not have details of the collision or the exact ages of the students, but that all six victims were female. The condition of the semi-driver was not immediately known.
Images from the scene of the crash showed a virtually destroyed black vehicle with what appeared to be a pink steering wheel among the rubble. It also shows the car’s roof and doors ripped from the vehicle.
Superintendent Bobby Waitman of Tishomingo Public School said in a Facebook post that the district had “a great loss” involving students from the district’s high school.
Superintendent Waitman said: “Our hearts are broken, and we are grieving with our students and staff. We have counselors available to students presently. We also have space prepared at Tishomingo High School with counselors available through the evening.”
Waitman also added that the school would be open on Wednesday saying: “Schools will be in session tomorrow at each campus, but our focus will be the emotional well-being of our students.”
Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma said that it was a “sad day” for the state, saying he and his wife were praying for the families of the six teens.
The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post: “Our prayers are with each of the families involved and our community. This is an absolute tragedy which will have lifelong effects. This community and families need our support and prayers at this time.”
Tishomingo is the largest city in Johnston County, Oklahoma. The population hovers right around 3,000. The Johnston County Sheriff’s Office shared in a Facebook post that the highway has been reopened.
The accident comes just days after six student-athletes and a coach from a New Mexico university’s golf teams were killed in a head-on collision in West Texas. A man and a 13-year-old boy were also killed in that crash.
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