A tragic incident occurred on Franklin Road in Norman when a pick-up truck collided head-on with a school bus, resulting in two fatalities. According to the Norman Police Department’s report, the accident took place between 84th and 108th Ave NE, at approximately 12:21 p.m. yesterday. The report suggests that the pick-up, carrying an adult male and female, veered into the opposite lane and struck the eastbound bus.
Traveling westbound, the driver of the pick-up truck, for reasons yet under investigation, crossed the center line, initiating the fatal crash. Both occupants of the truck were pronounced dead at the scene by the emergency personnel. The Norman Police Department, alongside the OUPD Collision Investigation and Reconstruction Team, are piecing together the circumstances that led to this tragedy. Occupied by two adults and three children, the school bus bore the brunt of the violent encounter, miraculously leaving the children without physical harm…