3 dead after car crashes into Oklahoma State homecoming parade
A car crashed into the Oklahoma State homecoming parade Saturday “at a high rate of speed,” killing three people and injuring nearly two dozen others.
The police captain said seven of the people injured were seriously hurt.
The accident happened at approximately 10:30 a.m. CT in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Cowboys are scheduled to play Kansas later Saturday afternoon.
The driver of the car has been arrested for DUI. The car, according to police captain Kyle Gibbs, first struck a police motorcycle that was unoccupied and then into the crowd watching the parade.
A vehicle collided into parade attendees near the intersection of East Hall of Fame Avenue and North Main Street, according to multiple witnesses. The intersection is near the end of the parade route where a large concentration of people were watching the parade.
From the World, continued:
Geoff Haxton, who was about 100 yards away from the incident, said a 4-door vehicle not affiliated with the parade crashed into the crowd. Other witnesses told him the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed.
According to one witness, a motorcycle was involved in the incident.
Oklahoma State released a statement via its Twitter account after the accident. The game against Kansas will be played as scheduled.
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