Oklahoma Homecoming Parade Crash: Police Say Injured Grows to 44

The latest on the fatal crash at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade.
Oklahoma Homecoming Parade Crash: Police Say Injured Grows to 44
Emergency personnel respond after a vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, causing multiple injuries, in Stillwater, Oka., on Oct. 24, 2015. David Bitton/The News Press via AP
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STILLWATER, Okla.—The latest on the fatal crash at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade (all times local):

9:30 p.m.

Police say the number of people injured in an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crash has grown to 44.

Stillwater police Capt. Kyle Gibbs gave the new total in a release Saturday night. He also says the 2-year-old who became the fourth person to die was a boy and that the three others killed were all adults.

Adacia Chambers is suspected of driving under the influence and has been arrested. Police say she plowed into the parade crowd Saturday in Stillwater.

They say a car driven by the 25-year-old Stillwater woman struck an unoccupied motorcycle of an officer working security at the parade, then went into the crowd.

7 p.m.

Hospital officials say a 2-year-old has become the fourth person to die after a woman suspected of driving under the influence plowed into an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crowd.

The child’s death was reported Saturday evening in a news release from OU Medical Center and The Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. The child died at The Children’s Hospital.

Police have said a car driven by 25-year-old Adacia Chambers struck an unoccupied motorcycle of an officer working security at the parade Saturday in Stillwater. The vehicle then went into the crowd.

In addition to the four deaths, more than 30 were injured. They included eight who were airlifted to hospitals with critical injuries.

Chambers was taken into custody on the DUI charge.

Emergency personnel respond after a vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, causing multiple injuries, in Stillwater, Oka., on Oct. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Brody Schmidt)
Emergency personnel respond after a vehicle crashed into a crowd of spectators during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, causing multiple injuries, in Stillwater, Oka., on Oct. 24, 2015. AP Photo/Brody Schmidt