EL RENO, OK : 2 Vista children among 4 killed in Oklahoma wrong-way crash on Saturday, 17th October, 2020

The search for answers continues after a fiery, wrong-way crash Saturday on an Oklahoma highway killed four people, including two Vista children.

Burned grass and scattered crayons mark the spot where troopers say 33-year-old Ashley Ricks slammed into the victims’ car near El Reno. The crash killed Zach and Lili Homant, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. It also killed their mother Laura Jones and grandmother Carol Jones Hickman, a GoFundMe page for the family shows.

Now the Oklahoma Highway Patrol wants to know where she was in the hours leading up to the crash. OHP officials say alcohol may be to blame.

“At a minimum, it was going the wrong direction for nine miles,” said Major Ronnie Hampton of the OHP. “It was doing so at what witnesses described as a pretty high rate of speed.”

Then there was a head-on collision. According to authorities, the impact sent Ricks’ vehicle into a ditch on the side of the highway while the other car rolled into the median, bursting into flames and trapping the four occupants inside.

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