俄克拉荷马州高速公路巡逻队周三表示，俄克拉荷马城（美联社） - 俄克拉荷马州高速公路巡逻队周三表示，当他们的小型汽车只有四个座位与一辆大型卡车拖着岩石相撞时，六个少年女孩被杀死。
The crash occurred shortly星期二中午在Tishomingo之后，a rural city of about 3,000 located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, the patrol said. Those killed included the 16-year-old driver, three 15-year-olds, and two 17-year-old passengers, according to the patrol.
While what led to the crash is unknown, it highlighted concerns of teenagers carrying other young passengers.
“Just adding a single passenger under age 21 increases the risk of crashing by 44%” when the driver is a teen,” said William Van Tassel with AAA’s national office.
The crash report, released Wednesday morning, said the circumstances of the wreck remained under investigation. But Highway Patrol Trooper Shelby Humphrey said Tuesday night that the girls’ car was making a right turn when it collided with the truck, KXII-TV reported.
“One of the main concerns and risks of having multiple teenagers in a car is the distractions that come with that,” Van Tassel said.
“如果其中一名乘客超过35（风险）下降了62％。这意味着在车上有成年人时，青少年可以安全开车。”范·塔塞尔（Van Tassel）告诉美联社。
Only the 16-year-old driver and front-seat passenger were wearing seat belts when the 2015 Chevrolet Spark collided with the truck, according to the Highway Patrol.
范·泰塞尔（Van Tessel）说：“不受限制的人使每个人都处于危险之中。”“在撞车事故中，解开的人们四处飞行，”车辆内部的其他人受伤。
好的lahoma is the only state where passengers who are older than 7 years old and in the back seat of a car do not have to wear a seat belt, said Leslie Gamble, the manger of public and government relations for AAA-Oklahoma.
“A 41-member coalition of traffic safety advocates has pushed for a bill to be passed by our state legislators for the past three years without success,” Gamble said
撞车事故发生在距Tishomingo高中约一英里（1.6公里）。
Students in the district of about 850 students were in class Wednesday, Tishomingo Public School Superintendent Bobby Waitman said.
“Academics are secondary, frankly, at this point to the students knowing that they belong, that they have a safe place,” Waitman said.
怀特曼补充说：“您永远不会完全理解，我认为我们不会完全理解这样的损失。”
女孩的名字没有被释放，因为他们是少年。
The Highway Patrol identified the driver of the truck as Valendon Burton, 51, of Burneyville, Oklahoma. The report said Burton was not injured.
NTSB发言人彼得·诺德森（Peter Knudson）表示，国家运输安全委员会正在派遣一支团队。
Waitman said funerals for the students were not yet scheduled and that the district would work with their families to potentially schedule a memorial service on campus.
The crash happened one week after nine people were killed — includingsix members of a New Mexico college’s golf team和他们的教练 - 死了在德克萨斯州西部的一次撞车事故中. In that crash, the NTSBdeterminedthat a 13-year-old boy wasbehind the wheel of a truck当它炸毁轮胎并撞到载有西南学生的货车。
