Moore, Oklahoma: One Person Killed and Two Taken to Hospital in Crash Near Sunnylane and Fourth Street

One person died and two other people were taken to hospitals after a multi-vehicle crash in Moore on Monday evening near Southeast Fourth Street and Sunnylane Road, Moore police said. News 9 placed the crash at about 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 and said at least two vehicles were involved and two other people were taken to a hospital. A fuller local account reported that three vehicles collided near the intersection, that one person died at the scene, and that officers closed portions of Sunnylane in both the northbound and southbound directions while they worked at the site.

Moore is the Cleveland County suburb directly south of Oklahoma City, and the intersection sits in a built-up part of the city where Fourth Street crosses Sunnylane. KOCO aerial video showed the aftermath of a multi-vehicle crash near a church in Moore on Monday, matching the police account of a serious collision with several vehicles at the scene.

A reckless driver call came first

Moore police were called just after 5 p.m. on Monday about a reckless driver, according to the local account of the police response. A short time later, the vehicles collided near Southeast Fourth Street and Sunnylane. One person died at the scene. Two other people were transported to hospitals. Police had not released the identities of the people involved, and officers closed portions of Sunnylane in both directions, which pushed evening traffic onto other routes through the area.

News 9, in its Tuesday morning roundup of the crash, said authorities have not said what led to the collision and that police are continuing to investigate the circumstances. That roundup repeated the central facts: one person killed, at least two vehicles involved near Southeast Sunnylane Road and Fourth Street, and two other people taken to a hospital.

What police have not said

Police have not released the names of the people involved, have not said how many people were in each vehicle, and have not given a cause for the crash. The local account said investigators had not established what role, if any, the reckless driving reported shortly before 5 p.m. played in the collision. No charges or citations had been reported in the local accounts published by Tuesday morning.

For drivers in Moore, the practical fact on Monday evening was the closure itself: portions of a main local road were shut in both directions at the start of the evening, with no official word in the reports on when the road fully reopened. Anyone with information about the crash is part of a standard police investigation that, as of Tuesday, remained open with the cause still undetermined in every published account.