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Six girls killed in a crash with semitruck had come to rolling stop, witnesses say
The women had been driving in a small passenger automobile when it collided with a semitruck at an intersection within the metropolis of Tishomingo, about 122 miles south of Oklahoma Metropolis.
There’s a cease signal regulating visitors at this intersection and the posted velocity restrict for the freeway is 50 mph. Witnesses stated the Chevy entered US-377 after making a “rolling cease” on the cease signal and was hit by the semitruck on the front-left, which pushed it off the roadway, in line with the replace.
The semitruck then veered off the highway and got here to cease in a personal driveway off the freeway. The motive force of the truck was unhurt, the assertion stated.
The investigation is continuous and the NTSB, in coordination with the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol, has despatched a staff of 4 investigators and a household help specialist to Oklahoma to look into a number of points.
They are going to be evaluating freeway situations, like lighting and climate situations, in addition to accident histories on the web site and potential causes behind human error. They may also study the automobile’s compliance with federal and state rules.
Investigators will reconstruct the crash occasions and analyze bodily proof and automobile injury, the assertion stated.
The staff’s on-scene work is predicted to conclude by Monday and a preliminary report is predicted late subsequent month. The total investigation — which would come with possible trigger and any contributing components — can be accomplished within the subsequent yr or two.
”On behalf of our college students, employees, households, and neighborhood I wish to thanks on your thoughtfulness, prayers and encouragement,” stated Bobby Waitman, Tishomingo Public Colleges superintendent, in a press release.
“As we start the method of damaged hearts, I’m reminded that our best precedence as educators is to satisfy the emotional, psychological, social and bodily wants of our college students. That is our focus at the moment – and every single day that we serve our college students,” Waitman’s assertion added.