Truck driver charged in double fatality 5 semi truck crash in Oklahoma

Authorities in Oklahoma have charged a truck driver following a lethal pileup crash that occurred on I-35 on Wednesday.

The crash occurred early Wednesday afternoon on I-35 at mile marker 59 close to Davis when 5 semi vehicles and two passenger automobiles collided within the northbound lanes of the interstate.

Officers say that six automobiles together with 4 semi vehicles have been stopped on the interstate as a consequence of building.

A fifth semi truck pushed by Tony Aghaji-Enweremadu, 38, didn’t cease for the slowed visitors and collided with the opposite automobiles, in line with police.

A driver and passenger inside a Honda Civic have been pinned for 5 hours earlier than they have been freed by firefighters. Each folks have been pronounced lifeless on the scene.

Aghaji-Enweremadu was hospitalized and launched.

Court docket paperwork point out that Aghaji-Enweremadu was allegedly talking with a supply particular person by means of his Ring doorbell app when the crash occurred. Paperwork point out that Aghaji-Enweremadu swerved however nonetheless crashed into the automobiles.

Aghaji-Enweremadu was arrested on two counts of first-degree manslaughter after leaving the hospital, in line with KFOR.

The crash stays beneath investigation.