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Bill Walker, 83, was traveling southbound on Arkansas 53 in a 1997 Ford when his vehicle collided with a trailer being pulled by a Freightliner that was turning north onto the highway at 11 p.m. Thursday south of Gurdon. Walker was pronounced deceased at the crash scene. The driver of the Freightliner, James Giles, 39, of Waynesboro, Mississippi, sustained no injuries in the crash.
Harding University in Searcy says a student returning from her home in Spring, Texas, for the spring semester was killed in an auto accident on Interstate 30 in southwestern Arkansas. The university's website says 20-year-old Kailey Massey died in the collision near Arkadelphia Saturday afternoon. An Arkansas State Police report says Massey was eastbound on the interstate about 4:30 p.m. when she crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer. The report says the driver of the rig was not injured. Harding says Massey was a junior communication sciences and disorders major.