4 North Central Texas College Softball Players Dead in Bus Crash, Homicide Eyed | Bob's Blitz

4 North Central Texas College Softball Players Dead in Bus Crash, Homicide Eyed

Four members of the North Central Texas College softball team are dead after a tractor-trailer crossed a southern Oklahoma highway median and slammed into the side of the bus last night around 9 PM. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Ronnie Hampton said three young women from the team died at the scene and a fourth died later at a nearby hospital.

Hampton said the team's coach, who was driving the bus, declined treatment at the scene and escaped without serious injury. He said 15 other bus passengers were hurt, as was the driver of the tractor-trailer, who was expected to survive.

"Right now, it's being investigated like a homicide," Hampton said, adding that both drivers will undergo standard toxicology tests. Hampton said details of the crash were still not known but "something happened to cause (the semi-tractor driver) to depart the roadway and impact the other vehicle."

"We have a lot of injuries, and a lot of death," he told FoxNews.com. "It's a tragic thing for everybody involved."

"When it impacted the bus, it just kept going and went off the side of road. ... We knew we had a two-vehicle accident by what we saw at the scene. ... But it took about an hour before we found the semi," he said.

A posting on the North Central Texas College Facebook page reads: "We ask for your prayers at this time for our softball team. Their bus has been involved in an accident in Oklahoma."

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