The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a ninth fatality in a northeast Oklahoma turnpike wreck has been confirmed after crews found another body in a car that had been caught under a tractor-trailer.
The accident happened about 1 p.m. Friday when a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of cars stopped by an earlier accident on the Will Rogers Turnpike northeast of Miami.
Patrol Lt. George Brown said a ninth victim was found hours later when tow trucks were finally able to lift the truck from atop a car that had been crushed underneath.
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