It started early Saturday morning. I’m not sure what woke me up, but I had the scanner on and heard the frantic search for an auto accident victim.
Nineteen-year-old Amanda Stone didn’t know where she was at. “…I was goin’ south and I blacked out, and I don’t remember.”
Alcohol probably played a major role in the crash.
An EMSA dispatcher kept her on the phone having her describe her surroundings, the direction she was traveling.
“There’s 3 other people with me, I can’t get them to respond. I think they’re dead.”
After a an hour of searching, Amanda was found by an EMSA EMT. She had crashed into a north Tulsa rock quarry at 129th and 46th St. N.
Travelling north on 129th street at a high rate of speed, they apparently ran the stop sign at 46th St. N., hit the large boulders surrounding the edge of the quarry, sailed 200 feet into the air over the edge and dropped over a hundred feet onto to the boulders below. All 4 were ejected from the vehicle.
Amanda was rescued and taken to a local hospital in serious condition. The others were pronounced dead at the scene.
While cleanup continued at the quarry, another call went out over the scanner – a plane had crashed at Chandler Park in west Tulsa.
Five people took off in a small airplane from Jones airport on their way to an OU game in Texas. The plane clipped a tower cable and crashed into the park, bursting into flames. Dense fog and poor visibility were factors in this crash. Everyone aboard the plane were killed.
Yes, a tough day for rescue workers. A tough day for all Tulsans.
Sources: Emergency Scanner, EMSA Recordings, Tulsa World, KOTV