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Transportation commissioners vote for cable barrier on I-35 where crash killed 4 softball players

BY RANDY ELLIS Staff Writer rellis@oklahoman.comOklahoma transportation commissioners on Monday approved a contract to install a 7-mile-long cable barrier to separate northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 35 along a stretch of highway where four softball players died last September in a crossover accident. Had the barrier been in place last September, it likely would have prevented the deaths of four members of the North Central Texas College women's softball team. The accident occurred in the Arbuckle Mountains, just south of Turner Falls, in the same general area where traffic currently is slowed while workers seek to stabilize rock formations that led to a June 18 rock slide. Transportation officials said that prior to the crossover accident, they thought there was enough separation between the northbound and southbound lanes that such an accident was unlikely. The Sept.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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