The Norman Transcript
October 15, 2006 12:23 am
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Transcript Staff Writer
One man was killed and four others were injured Saturday afternoon in a two-vehicle collision that snarled gameday traffic for hours and forced the closing of SH 9.
Norman police Lt. Eric Lehenbauer said the man, the driver of a Honda Accord, was killed when his vehicle went left of center while traveling west and struck a Dodge Durango head-on. The vehicles, Lehenbauer said, were traveling in opposite directions near the intersection of SH 9 and Jaunita Lane.
Lehenbauer said the driver of the Accord died at the scene, but withheld his name pending notification of the driver's family.
The driver of the Dodge Durango, William Webster, was transported by helicopter to the OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City.
Webster is listed in serious condition, OU Medical Center spokesman Allen Poston said. The Durango's three other passengers -- a 4-year-old child, a 16-year-old female and a 28-year-old female -- were taken to Norman Regional Hospital. Norman Hospital officials declined to release information about the passengers condition.
Lehenbauer said the accident occurred at about 3:10 p.m. -- just as fans were leaving the University of Oklahoma football game.
"The accident forced us to close the highway" he said, "It shut down traffic there for several hours."
By 6 p.m., Lehenbauer said police were able to open two lanes of the highway and traffic began "to trickle through."
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