OKLAHOMA: At least nine people died when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped on a northeast Oklahoma toll road by an earlier accident, leaving twisted metal and debris strewn about the highway.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lieutenant George Brown said traffic was stopped on the Will Rogers Turnpike northeast of Miami because of an earlier crash when the big rig slammed into at least three cars, which then crashed into more vehicles.
"It looks like a war zone," he said. "There's mangled metal everywhere. There's debris, fluids, dead bodies."
Brown said at least nine people were killed, but he feared rescue crews might find more bodies as they worked to get to a car pinned under the semitrailer.
Investigators don't believe the driver of the tractor-trailer tried to stop before the crash.
The speed limit in the area is 120 km/h.
Brown said the truck driver was taken to hospita He did not know his medical conditions.
Rescue workers last night expected
the death toll to climb. Photo / AP
- AP
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