A GoFundMe has raised over $100,000 for the family of an 18-year-old Oklahoma boy who died in a head-on car crash that seriously injured his mother on their way to a Chiefs game last Saturday.
Connor Barba’s mother Megan Barnett, 41, had gifted Barba the tickets for his birthday, according to the GoFundMe post.
The Tulsa residents were headed to see the Chiefs play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, led by star quarterback and University of Oklahoma graduate, Baker Mayfield.
Donations for Barba’s funeral and Barnett’s medical expenses have since surpassed the goal of $20,000 — totaling over $112,000 as of Friday evening.
Around 4 p.m. last Saturday, Barba and Barnett were driving north on U.S. 169 near Cherryvale, Kansas — about two hours southeast of Wichita — when they were struck head on by a Hyundai Santa Fe headed south, according to the Kansas State Highway Patrol crash report.
Officials say the Hyundai crossed the center of the highway for an unknown reason. A third vehicle struck the Hyundai after it hit Barba and Barnett and rotated back to the southbound lane, but that driver was not injured.
Both the driver of the Hyundai and Barba died of their injuries.
Barnett is in the intensive care unit in Tulsa, and will need extensive recovery, according to the GoFundMe post.
