Friends following their progress on a location app noticed their car had not moved and became worried.
— Three University of Oklahoma meteorology students were killed Friday night when their vehicle hydroplaned and was struck by a tractor-trailer, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Drake Brooks, 22, Nicholas Nair, 20, and Gavin Short, 19, all died at the scene in Kay County, Oklahoma, just south of the Kansas border and some 70 miles from the Wichita area, where a powerful tornado leveled dozens of buildings.All three were students at the university’s College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences.
But Carter and his friends began calling every hospital within 200 miles, he said. Roughly six hours later, they found out their friends had died.Video posted on social media Friday from the accounts of Nic Nair and Gavin Short showed an apparent tornado near Herington, Kansas.there were “no words to express the deep sadness there is in the #OUFamily today.
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