Meagan Richardson, 19, Brooke Deckard, 20, Katelynn Woodlee, 18, and Jaiden Pelton, 20, dead; 13 injured when bus carrying North Central Texas college softball team collides with truck on Interstate 35 in Murray County, Oklahoma

There is no word on what caused the collision and the names of the people who died in the crash have not been released. Oklahoma Highway Patrol and emergency crews were said to be at the scene late into Friday night. 

Four members of a Texas college softball team were killed after a tractor-trailer crossed the center median and collided with the team's van Friday night just south of Turner Falls, authorities said.

The crash occurred around 9 p.m. local time when a semi truck crossed over a median into oncoming traffic north of Ardmore, Oklahoma and collided with the bus.

The bus, which belonged to North Central Texas College, was transporting its softball team back from a game, the school said. Two of the injured were flown by air ambulance to the Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

The station reported medical helicopters flew two passengers on the bus to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City. KXII said the driver of the semi was taken to a local hospital and the driver of the bus refused treatment at the scene.

"Right now, it's being investigated like a homicide," Hampton said, adding that both drivers will undergo standard toxicology tests.

"What we do know is that the semi (truck) was headed north on I-35 when he departed the roadway and entered the southbound lanes," Hampton told The Oklahoman. "When it impacted the bus, it just kept going and went off the side of road. ... We knew we had a two-vehicle accident by what we saw at the scene. ... But it took about an hour before we found the semi."

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has released the names of the four members of a North Texas community college women's softball team who died when a tractor trailer collided with their bus.

The following list was compiled and released by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, and shows those injured and killed in a bus crash that occured the night before along Interstate 35. The crash killed four student athletes from North Central Texas College and injured more than a dozen others.

The driver of the truck, Russell Staley, 53, of Saginaw, Tex., was taken to a hospital for treatment and later released, officials said. The softball coach, Van Hedrick, 48, who was driving the bus carrying 15 players from the team called the Lady Lions as they returned from a game, was also taken to a hospital for treatment and later released.

"This is the most traumatic event that NCTC has had in its 90 years of history," College President Brent Wallace said at an emotional news conference Saturday in Gainesville, Texas, about 60 miles south of the crash site on Interstate 35.

Richardson’s mother, father, two sisters and other families members prayed and grieved with dozens of people who gathered around the Wylie High School softball field pitcher’s mound.

Authorities say the driver of a tractor-trailer that collided with a bus killing four members of a Texas community college softball team told them he had been distracted by something in his cabin before the accident.

"He (Staley) said he was distracted by something in the cabin," said Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Ronnie Hampton,

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Ronnie Hamptom said the driver told investigators he was reaching for a drink when the crash occurred.

A Texas softball team coach did everything he could to save four of his players who died when an 18-wheel tractor-trailer smashed into their bus in Oklahoma, a relative said Monday.

To our family and friends, your depth of love and support sustains us as we care for our daughter and begin the healing process.

Attorneys representing the parents of one of the girls who died in a bus crash last month have filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning in Tarrant County.

The family of a teenager injured when a tractor-trailer struck a bus carrying a college softball team, killing four players, has filed a lawsuit against the trucking company and the driver of the rig.

Four months after four North Central Texas College softball players were killed in a bus crash their teammates are still coping with the loss as they begin a new season.

After losing the first game 7-8, the Lady Lions dominated game two, winning 11-2 and actually forcing the game to end in the fifth inning because they were ahead by at least eight runs.

“We’re wanting to make it a celebration of Brooke, more than anything else,” said Blue Ridge ISD Superintendent Todd Lintzen. “She was definitely a leader.”

Even though the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has yet to issue a final report on the bus accident that left four dead near Davis last fall, three of the lawsuits filed in connection with the incident have been either dismissed or settled.

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report on the crash that says the semi followed a slight curve to the right but "failed to continue with the northbound lanes of I-35 and departed the left lane, entering the 92-foot-wide depressed earthen median."

A tractor-trailer driver whose semi crashed into a bus in Oklahoma and killed four members of the North Central Texas College softball team faces manslaughter charges.

The judge also seemed troubled by the lack of data available on “dissipation levels” associated with synthetic THC products, making it hard to know how long it may have been since Staley had smoked the substance, if he had smoked it at all.

Murray County Associate Judge Aaron Duck says he'll consider all of Thursday's testimony before making any decisions about sending defendant Russell Staley to trial, as well as which charges he might face.

The driver of an 18-wheeler that crashed into a bus in September 2014, killing four North Central Texas College softball players, killed himself weeks before the case was set to go to trial.