3 dead, 22 injured after Oklahoma State homecoming parade crash

The OSU Alumni Association, which organizes the “Homecoming Sea of Orange Parade”, also offered condolences to victims in a statement, as did Stillwater’s mayor, Gina Noble.

Backup quarterback J.W. Walsh ran for three touchdowns and passed for two more, and No. 14 Oklahoma State defeated Kansas 58-10. The Oklahoma University Medical Center said one of the victims was a 2-year-old who died at the hospital early Saturday evening. After the crash, about 20 people were brought to the hospital with both minor and serious injuries, NBC News reported.

Paul Sims, an OSU graduate student, told CNN that he was watching the end of the parade with his daughter around 10:30 a.m. Connecticut when a auto hit other spectators across the street from where he was standing. “We don’t make that call until our investigation is complete and we have the evidence”.

Witnesses described that scene looked as if a “bomb” had gone off.

As the game played on just two blocks away, the intersection of Hall of Fame and Main streets remained blocked by law enforcement vehicles and yellow tape.

Chambers’ father, Floyd Chambers, of Oologah, told The Oklahoman newspaper he could not believe his 25-year-old daughter, from Stillwater, was involved and insisted she was not an alcoholic. “It’s a complete horror”. Police are awaiting blood tests to determine if Adacia Chambers was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. They said she had arrived to her job next door at Freddy’s Frozen Custard and quickly left.

Gibbs said it could take several days to get more information about the cause of the accident.

“I really don’t care”, he told reporters. Her auto was not part of the homecoming parade and struck an unmanned police motorcycle before careening into the crowd, police said. Hours later, the intersection remained closed to traffic and still was littered by the wrecked auto and debris. Originally Stillwater police had said 22 others were injured, but they updated that total Saturday afternoon to 34. “Moreover, any persons with video of the collision – that would be very important to our collision investigators. We’ll do it again”.

Another witness, Geoff Haxton, said he was about 100 yards from the crash site.

“We knew we still had our jobs to do, and we touched on it in our prayer before the game, that God was giving us this opportunity to shed a little light in a few darkness, ” Walsh said.

Police say the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a crowd of spectators at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade has been arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.