The Oklahoman
MIAMI, OK — With the death of a Texas woman Sunday, the death toll of Friday’s multi-vehicle, chain-reaction pileup on the Will Rogers Turnpike now stands at 10.
Shelby Hayes, 35, of Frisco, Texas, was one of two survivors when she was flown to a Joplin hospital Friday afternoon. She died about 7 a.m. Sunday, according to an updated report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Authorities said Hayes was pinned in the wreckage for about two hours before being taken to the hospital. Two others with her, Randall Hayes, 38, and Ethan Hayes, 7, died at the scene.
The remaining survivor is 12-year-old Andrea Reyes of Phoenix, who suffered head and internal injuries when her family’s Land Rover was crushed. She was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., in serious condition, the highway patrol said. Her parents, Ricardo Reyes, 39, and her mother, Ernestina Reyes, were killed. Ernestina Reyes’ age was not immediately available.
Four of the victims were from Oklahoma City: Oral Hooks, 69, Earlene Hooks, 63, Antonio Hooks, 42, and Dione Hooks, 41.
On Sunday, friends and relatives of the Hooks family gathered at a home on NE 19 to start making funeral arrangements, but they were not ready to talk about the crash that killed four relatives.
The Hooks family, two parents and two sons, were headed to Missouri to visit Ronnie Hooks for what was supposed to be a celebration on Sunday.
“They were on their way to see me in St. Louis,” Hooks said. “I was to be ordained as an elder in the Church of God in Christ.”
Instead, Hooks and his surviving brothers are arranging to bury their loved ones. Hooks said his father, Oral, was semi-retired and his mother, Earlene, was a housewife. His brother Dione worked as a laborer and Antonio Hooks was a veteran who was disabled, he said.
Also killed in the accident was Cynthia Olson, 55, of Crossroads, Texas.
Donald Creed of Willard, Mo., the 76-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer rig that slammed into the cars that were stopped for another accident, was hospitalized in good condition.
Patrol officials are continuing the investigation.
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