Deceased/Not Found TX - Clara Robinson, 8, missing after fatal (father) car accident in bad weather - 4 family members survived - Sherman - December 24, 2024

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Search efforts to find a missing eight-year-old girl from a fatal Christmas Eve crash in Sherman continued Thursday morning at 7 a.m.

According a Facebook post from the Sherman Police Department, police, Sherman Fire-rescue, Texas Task Force 2 and numerous other local and state agencies are working in the search as it continues in its third full day.

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Search continues for missing child after fatal crash

SHERMAN, TX (KTEN) -- Search efforts to find a missing eight-year-old girl from a fatal Christmas Eve crash in Sherman continued Thursday morning at 7 a.m.
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DangeRanger said:
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Officials continue search for missing 8-year-old in Sherman, TxDOT installs new safety measures

According to police, search efforts have been going on since Christmas Eve and is now continuing into the new year.
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This article has a video and explanation to better understand the case.
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To sum it up - car hydroplaned, got stuck in drainage ditch and carried down a creek. Mother and other children brought to hospital and recovering. They are looking for the girl in the Post Oak Creek as they assume she was swept away. Family was from Oklahoma.

This does NOT sound like a sketchy missing child situation.
 
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Search to find missing passenger from Sherman crash expanded

The search area and crew size for an eight year-old girl involved in a Tuesday morning one-vehicle crash has expanded.
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Chief Jason Jeffcoat identified the missing girl as Clara Robinson. Her father, Will Robinson was found dead on Tuesday night after being swept away in the flood waters.
 
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North Texas authorities identify missing Oklahoma girl, say father died trying to save her

The search for 8-year-old Clara Robinson entered its fourth day on Friday as rescue teams continue to comb through floodwaters.
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In an update on Friday, Sherman Police Chief Jason Jeffcoat identified the girl as Clara Robinson. Clara Robinson's father, 36-year-old Will Robinson, was hailed as a hero for his courageous efforts to try to save his daughter after their family vehicle crashed into a drainage ditch at Highway 75 and Taylor Street, police said.

Rescue teams, including Sherman Fire-Rescue, the Grayson County Sheriff's Office, Texas Parks and Wildlife and Texas Task Force 2, are focusing their search on the area where the crash occurred and expanding to a 10-mile stretch from Choctaw Creek to Post Oak Creek.
 
DEC 29, 2024
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New assets to assist in search for missing 8-year-old, Clara Robinson

For the sixth day, the mission for first responders and several assisting agencies remains: to find Clara Robinson.
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Sunday morning, the North Texas division of Texas Search and Rescue joined the team with technology that Sherman PD believes could possibly advance the search. “They have some drones that do things that our drones don’t do, they have some AI programs that we could use to target specific things,” said Lieutenant Sam Boyle with the Sherman Police Department.

... “We’re still searching that same area, we do intend to expand out further east as Choctaw Creek gets closer to the Red River but we have a few more places in this first initial 10-mile stretch that we wanna be able to exhaust and confirm that she’s not there before we extend our search out further,” said Boyle.
 
DEC 30, 2024
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Where is Clara? Search for Oklahoma girl swept away by floodwaters enters second week

KTVT By Julia Falcon, Sergio Candido Click here for updates on this story SHERMAN, Texas (KTVT) -- Multiple North Texas law
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“We urge the community to continue praying. Pray for our efforts to find Clara. Pray for continued good weather. Please, most importantly, pray for the Robinson family. This tragedy is unfathomable,” Sherman police added.

DEC 31, 2024
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Search continues a week after 8-year-old girl swept away in Sherman creek

Clara Robinson went missing after her family’s car hydroplaned and careened into a creek in a crash that killed her father.
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The Sherman Police Department and Sherman Fire-Rescue were able to rescue four of the six passengers in the vehicle; one of them was a 5-year-old girl who was found underwater and unresponsive. Sherman first responders saved her, and she was released from the hospital the next day.

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'Our goal is still to find Clara': Search for Oklahoma girl after deadly Texas crash enters 10th day

Law enforcement has entered its 10th day of searching for a missing 8-year-old Oklahoma girl who was swept away by floodwaters during a deadly Christmas Eve crash in Texas.
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"Please keep the Robinson family in your prayers. Somehow, a week has already passed since this tragedy began. We’re still here, Clara," Sherman Police Department officials posted.

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More manpower deployed in Sherman search for missing girl

SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) — The search for eight-year-old Clara Robinson has stretched into an eighth day.
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"With the weather changes and the rain, there's a number of factors that effect how and where we can search," Emmons explained. "There's a couple areas that are really deep pockets of water, and so the dive crews are actually going down in those. And then we have crews that are out right now that are sawing log jams."

A joint memorial service for Clara and her dad, Will Robinson, is set for 2 p.m. this Saturday at the Durant High School gymnasium.

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Guardrails being installed on Highway 75 near site of Robinson family Christmas Eve crash

One week after the Robinson family SUV hydroplaned off Highway 75, guardrails are going up between the roadway and the drainage ditch they landed in.
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One week after the Robinson family SUV hydroplaned off Highway 75, leading to the death of father Will Robinson and the disappearance of his 8-year-old daughter Clara, guardrails are being installed between the roadway and the drainage ditch they landed in.

Work on the rest of the project is expected to begin in January 2025 with overall completion in 2028.
 
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JAN 3, 2025
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'We're still here': Search for missing girl in Texas crash enters 11th day

Officials entered their 11th day searching for Clara Robinson, the 8-year-old Oklahoma girl who went missing after a Christmas Eve crash near U.S. 75.
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As crews continued their search for Clara Robinson, they were joined Friday by the South-East Branch of the Oklahoma Disaster Task Force. The team specializes in missing persons cases and disaster response, police said. The task force was bringing mounted teams to help cover wide stretches between Grayson County roadways, according to a police statement.
 
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JAN 6, 2025
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Search for missing 8-year-old Clara Robinson reaches day 14

On day 14, the search continued down Choctaw Creek near Highway 56 with the same goal: find Clara and give her family closure.
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While they’re still focusing on the first 15 mile stretch of creek, there are some crews working closer to the Red River where the creek eventually empties out.

“We’ve sent dive teams, used sonar, we’ve flown it with drones and with manned aircraft,” Boyle said. “Just based on the evidence that we’ve seen, it’s better use of our resources to keep the vast majority of our personnel within that first 15 miles and use those other assets in that second stretch.”

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Authorities committed to finding missing 8-year-old girl swept away by floodwaters as search enters 13th day in North Texas

The search for 8-year-old Clara Robinson has entered its 13th day.
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According to Sherman police, the stretch of Post Oak Creek between where the crash occurred and the FM 697 bridge has been “extensively searched” multiple times using every available resource.

“Everything downstream from FM 697 to the Red River has been searched by one method or another,” police said. “We are still searching all areas of the creek with every asset at our disposal.”
 
JAN 6, 2025
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Oklahoma task force joins search for 8-year-old Durant girl missing after Texas crash

Two weeks after a Durant family hydroplaned into a flooded drainage ditch on Christmas Eve, the search continues for 8-year-old Clara Robinson.
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Authorities said log jams, piles of debris and flooded terrain are hindering the search.

"They are, as of today, trying to mobilize some heavy equipment to get into some very remote areas on the creek to free up some log jams that we are just able to do with hands," Ezell said. "The fields we were operating in on Saturday, the whole fields were flooded and that was probably 12 to 15 feet down the creek to the bank."

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Authorities inspecting piles of debris during North Texas search for missing 8-year-old Oklahoma girl

Monday marked the 14th day of the search for Clara Robinson.
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"There are a few more (debris piles) that require heavy equipment," Sherman police said in a social media post. "Today, we are working on plans to get equipment to those piles. Our teams are also focusing on portions of the creek where the bank has collapsed and created silt deposits."
 
JAN 7, 2025
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Search for missing 8-year-old Clara Robinson enters third week

The freezing forecast is not stopping the search for Clara Robinson, now in its third week.
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  • The freezing forecast is not stopping the search.
  • Sherman Police said they will continue looking for Clara as long as weather conditions permit.
  • The focus is combing through piles of debris.
 
JAN 8, 2025
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Search for Clara Robinson continues in North Texas amid winter storm warning

The search for 8-year-old Clara Robinson, swept away by floodwaters on Christmas Eve, enters its third week.
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Wednesday marked the 16th day of search efforts led by the Sherman Police Department with aid from other local and state law enforcement agencies. Despite inclement weather and a winter storm warning for the region, authorities said they won't stop looking for the child.

The focus now turns to using equipment to go through large piles of debris.

“They are not easily accessible from roadways or anything like that, so we’re working on some engineering plans. This is going to be kind of a a longer process to get that done, may take several days,” said Lt. Boyle.

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JAN 9, 2025
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The search for Clara Robinson continues during snowfall

The search for Clara Robinson is now in its third week and the Sherman Police Department Assistant Chief, Nic Emmons, says it will continue during Texoma’s snow storm.
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Professional volunteer crews are as determined as ever to find her and are not letting the snowfall in Sherman stop them. Emmons says the debris is so large in many creeks that heavier equipment is in use, such as excavators.

“It would be easy to get discouraged, but there’s still so much to do,” he said. “I think we’re always hopeful. There’s a spirit about returning Clara to the family. The volunteers that are coming in, are coming everyday with the same enthusiasm of one goal of finding her.
 
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