Tulsa woman killed in 3-car crash

BY AMANDA BLAND World Staff Writer
Thursday, December 06, 2012
12/27/12 at 12:16 PM

Update: Sand Springs police revise the report for a crash that killed Nita Marie Roden.

A Tulsa woman was killed in a three-car crash in Sand Springs on Thursday morning.

Nita Marie Roden, 43, was driving west on West 41st Street in a 2000 Chevrolet Cobalt when her car veered left into oncoming traffic near 73rd West Avenue around 6:55 a.m., said Mike Carter, assistant police chief for the Sand Springs Police Department.

Roden’s car struck an eastbound car, causing a second eastbound vehicle to crash into the first, he said.

The other drivers’ injuries were not considered to be life threatening.

All drivers were wearing seat belts, police said.

Associated Images:

The last of three wrecked vehicles is removed from the scene by a wrecker truck that resulted in at least one death, on West 41st Street, just east of Highway 97, in Sand Springs. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World

Emergency vehicles clear the scene of a three-vehicle wreck that resulted in at least one death, on West 41st Street, just east of Highway 97, in Sand Springs, on Thursday. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World