OHP: DUI A Factor In Crash That Killed Idabel Teenage Girl

Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a crash that killed a 16-year-old girl in Broken Bow early Sunday morning. Authorities say DUI was a factor in the collision.

It happened at 3:30 a.m. Sunday, on U.S. Highway 259, about one mile north of Joe Hough Road in Broken Bow.

According to the OHP collision report, a 2002 Dodge pickup truck was southbound on U.S. 259. The driver, 18-year-old William Zack Roy McReynolds, fell asleep and the truck ran off the roadway to the left, striking the Yanubbee Creek Guardrail.

The truck went airborne and fell about 30 feet into a creekbed. One passenger in the car, 16-year-old Sarah Ann Cofer of Idabel, Oklahoma, was thrown for about ten feet. The truck landed on top of her.

Cofer was pinned against the ground before being freed by Steel's Wrecker Service. She was pronounced dead at the scene from massive head and internal injuries.

McReynolds was transported to McCurtain Memorial Hospital with head and trunk internal injuries. He was listed in stable condition.

A second passenger in the truck, 18-year-old Crandle Talley, was transported to the same hospital with arm and head injuries. He is in stable condition.

Another 15-year-old female passenger was transported to the hospital with head injuries. She is in stable condition as well.

Neither Cofer nor McReynolds was wearing a seatbelt, but Talley was wearing one at the time of the wreck.

Troopers have listed the cause of the collision as "DUI." They say they did smell an odor of alcohol beverage on McReynolds.