# North Central Texas College women's softball team wiped out in wreck.

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**Created:** [September 28, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-central-texas-college-womens-softball-team-wiped-out-in-wreck/699791 "2014-09-28T18:03:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-central-texas-college-womens-softball-team-wiped-out-in-wreck/699791/1 "2014-09-28T18:03:15Z")

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The entire team wiped out. 4 dead and 11 injured. ☹ This reminds me of the horrible [Oklahoma State tragedy](http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/012701aaa.html) in 2001. 2 players and the director of basketball operations among the 10 dead,

A powerful reminder of the risks teams take traveling to road games.

> **[Four North Central Texas College softball players killed in Oklahoma bus crash](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/09/28/four-north-central-texas-college-softball-players-killed-in-oklahoma-bus-crash/)**
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> They never made it home. Four college softball players died when a runaway tractor-trailer plowed into their team bus on an Oklahoma highway just one hour north of their campus, officials said Satu…

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> Four college softball players died when a runaway tractor-trailer plowed into their team bus on an Oklahoma highway just one hour north of their campus, officials said Saturday.
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> The horrific wreck, which injured 11 other North Central Texas College players and their coach, was “being investigated like it’s a homicide,” said Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Ronnie Hampton.

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-central-texas-college-womens-softball-team-wiped-out-in-wreck/699791/2 "2014-09-28T18:09:59Z")

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Damn, that’s awful. ☹

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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-central-texas-college-womens-softball-team-wiped-out-in-wreck/699791/3 "2014-09-28T18:13:34Z")

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The local Dallas paper has more about the wreck and aftermath on the community.  
[http://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/20140927-4-teammates-lost.ece](http://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/20140927-4-teammates-lost.ece)

This at least is positive news.

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> All of the survivors, including the driver of the semi, were injured. By late Saturday, only two — both of them players — remained hospitalized.