TULSA, Ok. - A speeding car goes airborne before landing upside down near 61st and South Memorial, killing the driver. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says police spotted the car speeding northbound on Memorial from 71st and gave chase before the car crashed just north of 61st. Kruse says, "Went off the roadway to the east near T.G.I.F. into the parking lot, did a perfect field goal-like (flip) underneath the movie theater sign, then vaulted over two lanes of traffic and struck the One Eton Square apartment building about 25 feet up." When the vehicle came down, it hit a wall, causing a woman inside an apartment to injure her hand. The driver was alone inside the car and died at the scene about midnight this morning.

TULSA, Ok. - Drivers on I-44 westbound at 161st East Avenue should expect lane closures today and tomorrow starting at seven this evening. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is completing surface work as part of a bridge replacement project on I-44 at 161st. Also, a lane of the on-ramp at Highway 169 and 71st will be closed for repairs starting this morning but should re-open around nine this evening.

TULSA, Ok. - A pickup truck collision with a concrete embankment killed the driver. The crash happened about 2:30 this morning where the eastbound Sand Springs Expressway meets the Inner Dispersal Loop. Tulsa Police Captain Travis Yates says the driver's head and body struck the concrete. Yates says, "We believe the subject probably became unconscious at that point, or deceased at that point. The vehicle continued to travel, riding the concrete embankment to where it came to rest here i the 200-block south." Yates said traffic was diverted at Gilcrease Museum Road until the investigation was completed.

INOLA, Ok. - A Texas man is dead after a collision near Inola. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the unidentifed victim was driving eastbound in Rogers County last night about ten when his 2005 Toyota Camry left Highway 412 and he over-steered, hit a ditch and rolled the car, landing on its top. The Inola Fire Department used the Jaws of Life to get the man's body out of the car. Troopers say the man was en route to Indiana to attend his father's funeral.

TULSA, Ok. - A truck is found partially hanging from a bridge on Tulsa's Inner Dispersal Loop. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says the whole right side of the pickup truck is hanging down below the bridge in the closed construction zone on the eastbound, north side of the loop over Iroquois Street. Kruse says, "It's fallen between two big i-beams and it's just wedged there now. They're using the aerial scope ladder to go up underneath and above it to make sure there is nobody around it and, so far, they haven't found anybody around it."  Police received a call about a crash on the IDL around two this morning, but nothing was found until later when a train coming through spotted the debris behind a building. Crews arrived with a wrecker and lowered the truck to the ground.

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) - Attorneys say a plea deal could be in the works for the 77-year-old driver of a tractor-trailer that slammed into a line of stopped cars on a turnpike in northeastern Oklahoma last June, killing 10 people.

Ottawa County District Attorney Eddie Wyant said Monday he has been negotiating with driver Donald Creed's attorney, ``trying to come to resolution on the case.''

Creed's attorney, Paul Brunton of Tulsa, wasn't available Monday. Brunton told The Oklahoman he had spoken with Wyant ``and things are going very well.''

Wyant says he doesn't know when a deal might be finalized.

Creed, from Willard, Mo., is charged with 10 misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide and has pleaded not guilty. Brunton says Creed retired from Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers, for which he was driving, shortly after the accident.

TULSA, Ok. - Northbound traffic on Highway 75 near the Arkansas River bridge will cause delays this morning due to construction. Expect delay as you approach the orange barrels on Highway 75 near 21st Street and merge to the left to get into the only lane that is open. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says, "All but one lane of the northbound Highway 75 will be closed right about where you cross the Arkansas River." Kruse says it's also a challenge to get eastbound on the south side of the Inner Dispersal Loop to get to the Broken Arrow Expressway after you clear the one-lane traffic on Highway 75.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say parts of U.S. 75 and Interstate 244 were closed in Tulsa after a semi truck hauling 78,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer tumbled off an off-ramp, spilling all its contents.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown says the truck was exiting Interstate 244 just before 5 p.m. when it went off the ramp onto U.S. 75.

Brown says the only hazard from the white-pellet fertilizer was to those cleaning up the spill. He says motorists were diverted off the highways and a nearby business was told to shut its bay doors to prevent any dust from getting inside.

He says the driver was walking around when troopers arrived. There were no other reports of injuries.

The roads were reopened by 6:30 p.m.

TULSA, Ok. - Two teenage drivers are involved in two different accidents overnight, one of them involving a police chase. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says the chase started when an officer tried to make a curfew check in River Parks and the 18-year old female driver took off down Riverside Drive allegedly at speeds up to 100 mph. Kruse says, "The chase continued to about 116th Street South and Riverside where the driver lost control and came to rest between two utility poles." The crash knocked the power out in a neighborhood. Earlier, a 16-year girl rolled her car on North 52nd West Avenue near 113th Street North but was not seriously hurt.

GROVE, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma police say a Delaware County woman and her grandson from Missouri both have died as the result of an all-terrain vehicle accident.

A report from a state trooper said the two were killed about 9 a.m. Sunday when the ATV the woman was driving, with her grandson as passenger, veered off a county road near Grove, in the northeast corner of the state, and then rolled over atop them.

The report identified those killed as 49-year-old Tonya Cochran and her 4-year-old grandson, Wesley Cochran Jr. of Gladstone, Mo.

According to the trooper's report, the woman and her grandson were both ejected from atop the ATV and thrown about eight feet, landing on steps to a house. The report said the four-wheeler then landed on both subjects.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety is reporting that traffic fatalities in the state are down by more than 100 from 2009.

DPS said in a news release Saturday that 154 people had been killed in vehicle accidents so far this year. That's 103 fewer than the 257 that had occurred by this time of year in 2009.

The department says 22 people had been killed in accidents this month so far. That's down from 47 at the same point in May 2009.

TULSA, Ok. - A man is dead after he apparently falls asleep at the wheel and crashes his car into a tree. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 37-year old Rodney Harrington of Collinsville died early yesterday when he went off 193rd East Avenue and hit a tree near the entrance to the Port of Catoosa. Troopers say there were no signs of alcohol and Harrington was wearing a seat belt.

TULSA, Ok. - A Tulsa Police traffic stop turned into an alleged drug bust early this morning. When officers stopped a car at 24th and Memorial around 3:30, they noticed an aroma wafting from the car. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says police "conducted a search at which time they found an AR-15 type rifle in the trunk and a sack containing approximately 50 pounds of marijuana." Kruse says the owner of the car was a passenger at the time of the stop. He persuaded the police to let the other people inside the car to go, but the driver could face charges for possessing the rifle and the marijuana.

TULSA, Ok. - Drunk driving is risky business but getting involved in a crash and leaving the scene means jail time for one driver. Tulsa Police Corporal Mark Secrist says the driver was involved in a collision at 21st and Yale last night about 11:30, but then drove away into a neighborhood and bailed out of his truck. Secrist said, "He had tried to gain entry into a house and the homeowner came out and held him for us until we were able to take custody of him." The crash caused the other vehicle to overturn but the driver was only shaken-up.

TULSA, Ok. - Crews were working early this morning on the approach to the I-44 bridge near 161st East Avenue repairing a pothole on the eastbound, inside lane. The lane was closed during the night while crews patched the hole that is about 4 feet long, 8 inches wide and 2 inches deep. It's the third time in about a month that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation has been called to make repairs in the area. The lane will be closed while crews work to repair the approach to the bridge deck. ODOT officials say this is not a hole in the bridge deck, but is the beginning of a pothole that needed immediate attention. The work was completed early this morning.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Authorities say seven people suffered minor injuries when a city bus collided with other vehicles in southwest Oklahoma City.

Emergency Medical Services Authority spokeswoman Lara O'Leary says four ambulances took the injured to area hospitals on Tuesday. All were in good condition.

Police Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow says the bus and three other vehicles were involved in the crash at S.W. 51 Street and Western about 1:20 p.m.

No other details were immediately available.

TULSA, Ok. - Three people are lucky to escape a one vehicle accident without serious injury early this morning. It happened about 2 a.m. Friday on Highway 169 northbound near 66th Street North. A pickup truck driven by a man with two women passengers, veered to the left and struck a guardrail of the bridge over 66th Street North. At that point the truck climbed the rail, rolled over on its top and landed in the grass median and skidded for a distance. It came to rest with the front of the truck over the edge of the rail, just short of sliding down onto 66th Street North. Troopers arrested the man who was driving the truck on suspicion of DUI.

TULSA, Ok. - AM 740 and FM 102.3 News/Talk KRMG's April Hill reports Tulsa police are now looking for a different vehicle after a 91-year-old man was killed in a fatal hit and run on his motor scooter. It happened Saturday afternoon on Highway 169. Police say a car failed to slow down due to construction traffic and hit the victim from behind. Authorities say Olin Lewis was pronounced dead at the hospital. Investigators are looking for a white 80's to 90's model foreign style small pickup. Witnesses on scene originally told police the hit and run driver was in a silver car.

INOLA, Ok. - A Rogers County sheriff's deputy was flown to a Tulsa hospital after he crashed his cruiser on Highway 88 near Inola. The crash happened about 12:30 a.m. Thursday as the deputy was responding to an emergency call. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says, "About three miles from Inola, the deputy's car ran off the road, rolled one and a half times, ending up on its top." Kruse says emergency personnel had to use special equipment to remove the deputy from his car. Investigators hope to talk with him and determine exactly what happened.

TULSA, Ok. - Two lanes of traffic are closed due to potholes on I-44 near Catoosa. A new hole was discovered Sunday in the bridge deck further west of the hole that formed Friday morning in the westbound lane damaging several cars. One driver said, "My car kind of dropped down a little bit and then it come back up again and then my tire started going thump, thump, thump thump." All lanes of 165th East Avenue are closed underneath I-44 until further notice. Randle White is an Oklahoma Department of Transportation engineer. He says, "Certainly, it's frustrating for us. I wish we had a crystal ball and we could tell which bridge was going to be a problem for us. If they get caught up in traffic, I would ask that they be patient because we're trying to make repairs and make it safe for them." The right lane of eastbound I-44 also is closed at the 161st East Avenue junction until further notice. Sunday night, crews discovered an area of deteriorating pavement and closed the lane so that preventative maintenance work can be performed. This section of pavement does not have a hole in the deck and the work is being done as a safety precaution. The eastbound closure is expected to last until sometime late today.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A new study shows that, since the passage of Oklahoma's graduated driver's license law in 1999, the number of fatality crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers has dropped from 75 in 2000 to a low of 39 in 2008.

The numbers include wrecks that killed teens and others where a 16- or 17-year-old was behind the wheel of at least one of the vehicles involved.

Although the 2009 totals are not available, officials say preliminary data indicates there were 38 fatal crashes last year involving drivers ages 16 and 17, which would be a new low.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) - Muskogee school officials say three elementary school students were taken to the hospital after a car struck a school bus.

District Transportation Director Anne Henry says no one was seriously hurt when the collision occurred about 7:45 a.m. Thursday.

Authorities say the bus carrying the Cherokee Elementary School students was heading south when the westbound car ran a stop light at the intersection of Seventh Street and Okmulgee Avenue.

There were 20 children on the bus, but only two girls and a boy were taken to Muskogee Regional Medical Center for observation.

Henry says the driver of the car also was taken to the hospital.

TULSA, Ok. - Driving around downtown on the Inner Dispersal Loop Tulsa can be tedious this weekend for some people. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is closing part of the IDL to make pothole repairs. Eastbound I-244 on the northwest corner of loop will be closed starting at 9 a.m. today and will stay closed until the Monday morning rush hour. ODOT says the pothole repairs are only a temporary fix as the IDL is undergoing a $75-million renovation.

TULSA, Ok. - An early morning crash downtown between an EMSA ambulance and a car injured a Tulsa World newspaper carrier. The News On Six's Gary Kruse says it's unclear who had the right of way when the vehicles collided right after 4 a.m. at East 4th Street and South Cincinnati Avenue. Kruse says, "The woman was on her usual delivery paper route traveling east on Fourth Street and the EMSA ambulance was driving south on Cincinnati when they tangled. As a result of the collision, the woman's car spun around, striking a traffic control light and coming to rest against a flower bed." She was taken to the hospital for observation. No one in the ambulance was injured.

TULSA, Ok. - Over twenty trucks from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation were out overnight in Tulsa County spreading material on ice-glazed roadways. Even though motorists are advised to stay back and away from those trucks, ODOT's Martin Stewart says it doesn't always happen that way. Stewart says, "A couple of teenagers failed to yield at a stop sign, pulled out in front of one of my trucks, contact was made. One was transported but I've heard that is not injured." Stewart says if you don't have to be out just stay at home.

TULSA, Ok. - A traffic crash leaves one driver dead and the only witness is the other driver. The accident happened about 11:30 p.m. Thursday at 3100 South Lewis when the driver of a small car crashed into the driver's side door of an SUV. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says, "The driver of the small car died at the scene. Tulsa Fire and EMSA had to extricate the driver from the SUV and he was rushed to a local hospital in serious condition." The name of the driver who died in the accident was not available.

TULSA, Ok. - State troopers are giving safety barriers credit for keeping an accident from being much worse overnight. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says the accident happened on I-44 near Yale when a semi truck went into a cable barrier. Kruse says, "Troopers said that cable barriers have been criticized for their cost but was well worth it this time because it kept a semi upright and from crossing into the eastbound lanes." Kruse says, later, two people were hospitalized after a rear-end collision on Highway 75 near the Arkansas River bridge. That's when a pickup truck that was driving under the speed limit because of the rain was hit by another pickup. He says none of the injuries were considered to be serious.

TULSA, Ok. - Drivers should expect delay this morning during rush hour due to a water main break at Admiral and Harvard. The News On 6's Gary Kruse says it's going to be pretty slick from all the water frozen overnight. Kruse says, "An overnight water break in the northbound lanes of Harvard has produced water that started freezing on both the north and southbound lanes and also into the intersection." He says another water main break is between Yale and Sheridan in the 5900 block of East 27th Place. He says expect that neighborhood street to be slick and ice-covered.

AMES, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say an oil rig collapse in northwestern Oklahoma has killed a Kansas man and injured another.

Emergency officials responded to the accident about a half-mile east of Ames about 7:35 a.m. Saturday. Major County Sheriff's Deputy Nick Holdeman says 31-year-old Gabriel Ovalle Tellez of Liberal, Kan., died.

Holdeman says David Gonzalez of Hugoton, Kan., suffered broken leg and other injuries. Gonzalez was taken to an Enid hospital.

Holdeman says members of the Tomcat Drilling crew told authorities the rig collapsed a little after 6 a.m. He says the Oklahoma Occupational and Safety Health Administration will investigate the collapse.

Tomcat Drilling is based in Wichita, Kan.

TULSA, Ok. - A motorcycle rider died when his bike hit a curb on the Broken Arrow Expressway and he fell onto the railroad tracks below the overpass. Tulsa Police Sergeant Gary Otterstrom says someone found the motorcycle on the highway and then called 911. Otterstrom says, "...and it appears alcohol was probably going to be involved. They were saying he did have a distinct odor of alcohol when they were down with him there so that may have been a factor." Otterstrom identified the victim as 47-year old Brian Ken Buttram of Tulsa. The accident happended about 10:15 p.m. Sunday near the B-A exit to Utica.

PAWNEE, Ok. - Drivers taking Highway 412 from the west toward Tulsa can expect delay this morning. Dipatcher Crystal Hankins works at the Oklahoma Highway Patrol office in Pawnee. Hankins says, "We've had slick bridges and overpasses and there's a semi (tractor-trailer) accident on the Keystone bridge on Highway 412 going from the Cimarron Turnpike into Tulsa." Hankins says the crash that happened about 3:30 a.m. is still in the cleanup phase. Driving in the Guymon area of northwest Oklahoma is slick and hazardous this morning as well. Carly Whittler dispatches Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers in that part of the state. Whittler says, "On U.S. 287, a trooper says in Cimarron in that area it's going to be slick in spots with light snow accumulation. Also, in Harper County and Woodward County on U.S. 270, it's going to be very hazardous due to snow accumulaton and black ice." Whittler says she's had no reports of any accidents but she says it's a different story over toward Oklahoma City. She says several accidents have been reported in that area during the night.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has set dates to open bids on road and bridge projects without knowing whether it will have enough federal dollars to pay for them.

The commission Monday set a final date to open bids in January and tentative dates for February and March bid openings. But state Transportation Secretary Gary Ridley says questions remain about how much federal aid the projects will receive.

Ridley has expressed concern about declining federal support for road and bridge projects. Oklahoma officials say plans to repair or replace hundreds of obsolete bridges and thousands of miles of defective roads will be delayed without federal aid.

Ridley says federal support for state road projects has declined by $15 million a month due to declining revenue from federal fuel taxes.

PRUE, Ok. - An Osage County deputy was killed in a single vehicle accident overnight near Prue. Investigators say the accident happened just before midnight as the deputy was responding to an accident on Peach Orchard Road. His car rounded a curve, ran off the road and overturned, coming to rest on its wheels. He was ejected from the car and died at the scene. There were no other vehicles involved and no other injuries. 

SAND SPRINGS, Ok. - A six-year old Sand Springs boy dies after an all-terrain vehicle crash. Daniel Brock Smith-Maynard died at a Tulsa hospital Wednesday of head injuries after he took a curve too fast and rolled the ATV he was driving at his grandfather's house at 7503 West 16th Street in Tulsa County. The boy was wearing a helmet.

TULSA, Ok. - Tulsa police suspect carjackers are responsible for a crash that seriously injured an elderly couple Tuesday night. Police say a speeding car rear-ended the couple's car near Apache and North Peoria. A 70-year old woman and an 84-year old man were thrown from their car as it rolled over in the crash. Police say the driver of the speeding car left his vehicle and ran away from the scene. Police do not have a description of the suspect.

LENAPAH, Okla. (AP) - Authorities say no one was hurt when a school bus carrying 27 elementary school students collided with a pickup truck in Nowata County in northern Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says an Oklahoma Union school bus was turning from a private drive onto Oklahoma Highway 10 near Lenapah when the driver pulled in front of the oncoming truck about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday.

The truck crashed into the driver's side of the bus.

The patrol says all the bus occupants, including students ranging in age from 7 to 10, were wearing seat belts.

The Oklahoma Union district is located in South Coffeyville.

TULSA, Ok. - Highway 169 was closed between 46th Street North and 76th Street North after someone called police and reported several horses were on the roadway. Tulsa Police Sergeant Robert Rohloff says five horses were confirmed to be dead after being hit by vehicles around 3 a.m. today. Rohloff says, "Once we realized that we had this many horses out here, then getting enough manpower to shut down the highway in Owasso here. It takes awhile to get the manpower up here." Two people who were reportedly injured in the collisions were taken to hospitals. The problem for investigators was having to round-up several horses that had roamed away from the scene. Rohloff says some of the horses may have gone back into the pen area from where they escaped on 56th Street North. Some horse trailers were brought in to load the remaining horses and get them back to their pasture.

BIG CABIN, Okla. (AP) - A woman has died after being crushed by a door on a pickup truck in a private drive in northeast Oklahoma.

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper said Linda Carol Bradley got out of a 1989 Ford pickup and left it running and in gear. As she tried to get back in the vehicle, the driver's-side door hit a tree and closed it on Bradley.

The 57-year-old woman died in the accident at 8 a.m. Saturday near Big Cabin, or about 60 miles northeast of Tulsa.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Family members of the 10 people who were killed when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of stopped cars on an Oklahoma turnpike have sued the truck's driver and his employer.

A lawsuit filed Sept. 28 in Cleveland County District Court names Donald L. Creed of Willard, Mo. (shown); Kansas City, Kan.-based Associated Wholesale Grocers; two insurance companies, a California company and two individuals as defendants.

A message left for Steve Dillard, Associated Wholesale Grocers' vice president for corporate sales, wasn't immediately returned Tuesday. Creed faces 10 misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol found no evidence Creed tried to brake before hitting the cars.

CLAREMORE, Ok. - A two-vehicle crash in Claremore early this morning killed one driver and caused the other driver to be hospitalized. James, who was on his way to work in Tulsa, witnessed the wreckage near the intersection of Highway 66 and Flint Road. He says, "I saw the one vehicle laying on its side about 50 feet from the intersection. Another black, possibly a two-door car was ripped almost in half." 28-year old Nicholas Michael of Claremore died in the crash that occured at 3:37 a.m.

TULSA, Ok. - A female passenger on a motorcycle is fighting for her life after a crash early this morning. The accident ejected the woman from the bike and caused her to hit her head on the pavement. It happened right after midnight on west I-44 and 51st. The News On Six Gary Kruse says, "The motorcycle was westbound on I-44 when it failed to make the 51st Street exit, struck some plastic, sand-filled barrels and then skidded across West 51st Street and came to rest." The male driver of the motorcycle was arrested for possible driving under the influence.

OSAGE COUNTY, Ok. - A Sand Springs man died in a one-vehicle crash in Osage County. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troopers say 24-year old Michael A. Moore was thrown from his car about 9:14 p.m. Monday when it left the road for an unknown reason and rolled over on Highway 99, 1.9 miles north of Highway 10, located 1.9 miles north of Herd, Oklahoma. Troopers say he was not wearing his seat belt. Moore was alone in the car at the time of the crash.

TULSA, Ok.- The most expensive job ever bid-out by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation will bring another problem for drivers. Starting tomorrow the westbound on-ramp to I-44 from Peoria will be closed. But oh-dot's Kenna Mitchell says the finished product will be well worth it. Mitchell says, "This is to allow crews to go in, finish up some work and that will help them eventually be able to open up the area along Riverside." In a few weeks the Riverside ramps should re-open. The westbound on-ramp from Peoria to I-44 is part of a $330-million widening project from Yale to Riverside.

CREEK COUNTY, Ok. - A Sand Springs man died in a high-speed collision with a tree and a Depew man was killed in a rollover crash. State Troopers say 45-year old Raymond Douglas died around 8 p.m. yesterday near Highway 97 and 61st Street. Troopers say the Sapulpa Fire Department was called to help after Douglas was found pinned inside the car. 28-year old Scott Osburn of Depew died about thirty minutes later when his speeding car rolled over in Creek County on 231st Street near Depew. Two passengers were hospitalized.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma Highway Patrol report says the inattention of the driver of a tractor-trailer led to a wreck on the Will Rogers Turnpike that killed 10 people.

The OHP issued the 32-page report on Monday, detailing what its investigators determined while looking into the June 26 wreck in far northeastern Oklahoma, about eight miles northeast of Miami in Ottawa County.

The report says troopers spoke with the tractor-trailer's driver, 76-year-old Donald L. Creed of Willard, Mo., at the scene of the accident and that Creed, while still in his vehicle, ``asked if he had hit someone.''

The investigation also showed no attempt by Creed to brake or take evasive action, no apparent problems with his vehicle's brakes or steering and ``strong evidence'' the vehicle's cruise control was in use.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A nursing supervisor says the wife of a man killed Saturday in a single-engine plane crash in Oklahoma City is in fair condition at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center.

Nam Meyer and three others were injured in the Saturday morning crash that killed 59-year-old businessman Ron Meyer.

The nursing supervisor couldn't check the others' conditions Sunday morning without their names, which haven't been released.

Authorities have said the plane appeared to be attempting an emergency landing at Wiley Post Airport when it clipped a tree and crashed into a ditch just before 9 a.m. Saturday in front of bank branch along an expressway. No one on the ground was injured.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A state lawmaker wants to investigate ways to curb deaths caused by drinking and driving.

State Rep. Harold Wright of Weatherford will hold an interim study this fall to study how lawmakers can deal with the problem.

Wright says drunk driving is a serious hazard to both those who do it and to the innocent victims who share the streets with them.

Wright says tougher laws and possibly some kind of public relations campaign may help curb the deadly habit. One idea is to lower the legal alcohol limit from .08 to zero tolerance.

The DUI study was approved by House Speaker Chris Benge along with more than 100 other interim studies that will be conducted sometime in late summer or later in the fall.

DRUMRIGHT, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a woman has been killed after jumping from a moving pickup truck during an argument.

Troopers say the incident occurred about 1 a.m. Monday on Oklahoma 33 in Drumright.

No names have been released.

Investigators say the woman and another woman began fighting while in the moving truck, and the victim became so upset she jumped out and hit her head on the pavement.

Troopers say the truck was going about 45 miles per hour at the time. Troopers say they're still investigating the incident. They have not said who they believe was driving.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - 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.

Patrol Capt. Craig Medcalf said Tuesday that the assessment was based on an examination of the big rig's brake pads. Medcalf said the damage to the undercarriage of the tractor was so extensive that troopers could not test the brakes' performance.

Authorities have said it appears the truck driven by 76-year-old Donald Creed of Ash Grove, Mo., did not slow on Friday afternoon before it ran into traffic that had stopped for an earlier accident on the Will Rogers Turnpike near Miami, in far northeastern Oklahoma.

Prosecutors have said Creed could face misdemeanor negligent homicide charges.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A horrific chain-reaction accident on Interstate 44 in far northeast Oklahoma has claimed a 10th victim.

Tina Freeman of Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Mo., confirmed on Sunday that Shelby Hayes had died.

The 35-year-old Frisco, Texas, resident was admitted to the hospital in critical condition with head, internal and external injuries stemming from Friday's crash near Miami.

A tractor-trailer headed east on the highway slammed into cars that had stopped on the highway because of a previous accident, trapping some victims in wreckage for up to nine hours.

Oklahoma City residents Oral Hooks, 69; Earlene Hooks, 63; Antonio Hooks, 42; Dione Hooks, 41; Phoenix, Ariz., residents Ricardo Reyes, 39, and Ernestina Reyes; Frisco, Texas, residents Randall Hayes, 38, and Ethan Hayes, 7, and Cynthia Olson, 55, of Crossroads, Texas, were pronounced dead on Friday.

A hospital spokeswoman in Missouri says the condition of 12-year-old Andrea Reyes has been upgraded from critical to serious.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a routine criminal investigation is under way.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A Sand Springs woman has been charged with manslaughter in the deaths of two bicyclists.

Tulsa County prosecutors charged 38-year-old Tausha Borland with two counts of first-degree manslaughter and one count each of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a fatality accident.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported Borland was driving a sport utility vehicle that hit and killed 33-year-old Christa Voss of Owasso and 34-year-old Matthew Evans of Tulsa.

Voss, Evans and a third bicyclist were hit from behind as they rode on the shoulder of Oklahoma 51 near Sand Springs on June 9.

Borland is currently free on $100,000 bond. Court records do not say if she has an attorney.

TULSA, Ok. - A motorcycle rider was killed instantly when he collided at high-speed with a power pole. The crash happened about 2 a.m. today near Pine and Lewis. Tulsa Police Corporal Dan Miller says, "An individual called in and said a motorcyclist has hit a pole here and there (was) quite a scene of an accident." Miller says the victim had been chatting with another rider at the stop light before he accelerated away and lost control of the motorcycle. The bike continued on for several blocks after the collision. The victim's name has not been released.

TULSA, Ok. - The Oklahoma Department of Transportation will use its Smart Workzone system to warn drivers about the work on the IDL that encircles downtown Tulsa. ODOT Project Manager Nathan Bullard says, "When it goes into congestion mode, it will actually display 'be prepared to stop,' 'use extreme caution,' 'work zone ahead,' 'two minutes to end of workzone,' 'average speed is 48,' average speed is 43 mph,' whatever the average speed is." Bullard says drivers will not be able to use the north or west legs of the IDL when the second phase of the work begins in July. He says the project will take nearly two years to complete.

CUSHING, Okla. (AP) - A 22-year-old motorcyclist from Bristow has died after a rollover accident on State Highway 33 in Payne County.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Lance Jacob Weaver was headed westbound about 3.7 miles east of Cushing at about 6:50 p.m. yesterday when the accident occurred.

Troopers say Weaver was traveling a high rate of speed when he lost control of the motorcycle after cresting a hill. The motorcycle ran off the right side of the roadway and rolled several times, ejecting Weaver.

He died at the scene.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A Tulsa police officer has been hospitalized after his patrol car collided with a pickup truck near 51st and South Garnett.

Police say the officer was responding to an accident when the pickup truck slammed into the driver's side of his cruiser about 10:45 p.m. Saturday.

Sgt. Mark Watson says the officer was pinned inside the wreckage and later transported to a Tulsa hospital. His name and condition were not immediately released.

Watson says the crash remains under investigation.

PERKINS, Okla. (AP) - The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has identified a man critically injured in an all-terrain vehicle crash near Perkins.

The patrol says 59-year-old Donald Ray Matney of Coyle suffered massive injuries after he wrecked the ATV about 5:30 p.m. Monday northwest of Perkins.

A spokeswoman at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center says Matney remained in critical condition last night at the hospital.

The patrol says Matney was speeding along a gravel road when he lost control of the ATV, which rolled several times and landed on him.

The patrol says Matney was not wearing a helmet.

PERKINS, Okla. (AP) - The driver of an all-terrain vehicle is in critical condition after a crash near Perkins.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the driver was speeding along a gravel road just north of Perkins about 5:30 p.m. yesterday when the operator lost control and flipped the ATV. The ATV rolled several times and landed on top of the driver, whose name and gender weren't immediately released.

The driver was flown to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in critical condition with massive injuries.

The patrol reports the driver was not wearing a helmet.

TULSA, Ok. - A motorcycle rider died when he lost control of his bike and hit the back of a dump truck. Tulsa Police Captain Brett Bailey says during the investigation of the accident that happened Thursday at 2:10 a.m., Highway 169 was closed in both directions near 11th Street. Bailey says the victim's name has not been released. He says the truck driver was not hurt.

TULSA, Ok. - A car injured three people when it smashed into a Brookside restaurant. Katie Sheckarski is a sous chef at the In the Raw Restaurant at 3321 South Peoria. She says two people in the car were hurt along with a customer. Sheckarski says she heard a crash last night about 10:30 and found the car inside the front door. She says, "One of them got hurt by the seatbelt, another one's legs were banged up. A woman who was sitting inside (the restaurant) got hit by the impact of the car, was knocked out of her chair and the bricks injured her legs but she left walking, didn't go to the hospital." She says a driver who had tried to elude police hit another car causing it to ram into the restaurant. Police later arrested Alfred Humphrey. He was taken to the Tulsa County Jail and was being held on a $15,000 bond for allegedly leaving the scene of an injury accident and eluding police.

TULSA, Ok. - If you travel through Dysfunction Junction in east Tulsa expect even more delay. Starting today, a major makeover begins for the infamous intersection at I-44 and 193rd East Avenue. Catoosa resident Lee Brown and driver Lisa Turnham are daily drivers on the intersection where crews will shut down a lane this week for utility work. Brown says, "I've been here for 21 years and it's been going on ever since then." Turnahm says, "You live here, you learn to be in traffic." The Oklahoma Department of Transportation says 68,000 cars pass by every day on I-44. 14,000 drivers use 193rd making the junction one of the state's busiest intersections.

TULSA, Ok. - AM 740 and FM 102.3 News/Talk KRMG's Steve Berg reports that Tulsa Police say a witness saw a woman who was driving a white Nissan Pathfinder hit the child about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday near 1200 N. Trenton Street and drive off, so he followed her until she stopped at a house then went back to the scene and told police where she was. She told police that she didn't realize she had hit a person and that one of the kids in the street had thrown a ball at her car. Tulsa Police Captain Jonathan Brooks says the child was critical at last report but they haven't gotten an update. Brooks says, "His status is now considered unknown. Whether that's an improvement from what it originally was, we don't know." He says 24-year-old Virginia Aldez was arrested and booked on a complaint of leaving the scene of an injury accident, a felony, and also for not having a driver's license.

TULSA, Ok. - A Tulsa boy has died after his bike was hit by a van. The accident happened yesterday at the Observation Point Apartments near 41st and 129th East Avenue. Tulsa Police Corporal Daisy Vallely says police are looking for the driver who ran away from the scene. Vallely says, "It didn't appear that it was actually his fault. The problem was that he left the child underneath the van without even attempting to call 911 or render aid and that, of course, is against the law." The driver was identified by his brother as 45-year old Jose Rodriguez. Witnesses say the boy was riding his bicycle fast and was not paying attention.