Okla. patrol: No problems noted in brakes on big rig involved in 10-fatality turnpike accidentOKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has found no problems with the brakes on a tractor-trailer that plowed into stalled cars in a turnpike accident that killed 10 people. Driver in 10-death Okla. wreck had clean record; investigation centers on why he didn’t stopOKLAHOMA CITY — Truck driver Donald Creed had a clean record when the state of Missouri renewed his commercial driver’s license in April. Less than three months later, investigators are trying to figure out why Creed didn’t stop — and perhaps didn’t even hit the brakes — before his big rig slammed into a line of vehicles on an Oklahoma turnpike, a collision that killed 10 people. Death toll in Oklahoma turnpike crash climbs to 10OKLAHOMA CITY — The death toll from a chain-reaction accident on an Oklahoma turnpike this weekend has risen to 10. 9 killed in northeast Oklahoma highway wreck; final victim found in wreckage hours after crashMIAMI, Okla. — Hours after a tractor-trailer slammed into stopped traffic on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike, tow trucks dislodged the rig from a crushed car to find the body of a ninth victim inside the mangled wreckage. 9 dead in northeast Okla. turnpike wreck, motorists stranded in heat for hoursMIAMI, Okla. — Two survivors of an Oklahoma traffic wreck that killed nine people when a tractor-trailer slammed into stopped cars were in critical condition Saturday. Rescue crews find 9th victim in car caught under tractor-trailer, hours after Okla. wreckMIAMI, Okla. — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a ninth fatality in a northeast Oklahoma turnpike wreck has been confirmed after crews found another body in a car that had been caught under a tractor-trailer. At least 8 dead in northeast Okla. turnpike wreck, motorists stranded in heat for hoursMIAMI, Okla. — At least eight people died Friday when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike by an earlier accident, leaving twisted metal and debris strewn about the highway and stranding miles of traffic in scorching heat for hours. Highway Patrol confirms at least 8 dead in traffic accident on northeast Okla. interstateMIAMI, Okla. — A tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeast Oklahoma turnpike Friday afternoon, killing at least eight people , authorities said. |