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Authorities have identified the truck driver killed in a fiery wreck on Interstate 440 Thursday as a Jacksonville man.
Arkansas State Police say Terry Harrell, 60, died in the accident Wednesday afternoon near the Fourche Dam Pike exit.
Harrell was driving 2009 Freightliner east on the highway when it burst into flames after colliding with a Chevrolet Impala, police said at the scene. The truck then hit a second eastbound semi truck, which also caught fire.
A deputy sheriff was killed in a three-vehicle crash in southwestern Arkansas.
Lafayette County Chief Deputy Sheriff Pete Richardson died Monday afternoon after the jeep he was driving collided with an oncoming vehicle on U.S. Highway 82 west of Lewisville, Ark.
Richardson was driving westbound with a passenger when he hit an oncoming vehicle. That vehicle then hit a tractor-trailer rig.
Drivers of those two vehicles as well as the passenger in the jeep were injured and transported to nearby hospitals.
Authorities continue to investigate the accident.
A Piggott man died Saturday after a motorcycle accident in Clay County, the Arkansas State Police said.
Chad Holland Carmack, 34, was riding a 2007 Harley Davidson motorcycle east on U.S. 62 in Pollard about 5 p.m. Saturday when he lost control and slid beneath a 2014 Dodge going the opposite direction, according to an Arkansas State Police accident report.
Carmack came to rest in a ditch on the west side of the highway; he was dead at the scene, state police said. The driver of the Dodge was uninjured, according to the report.
A Friday morning wreck involving a van and a Quitman school bus on a Cleburne County state highway ended with a woman's death, according to an Arkansas State Police preliminary crash report. The school bus was at a stop on Arkansas 124 east of Quitman picking up a fourth child when a Kia van struck the back end of the bus, ultimately killing the van's driver, Martha Bearden, 54, of Guy, the report states. The road conditions were clear and dry, according to the report. The report also lists a female passenger of the van — Phoenix Bearden of Guy, whose age is not provided — as injured.
A 35-year-old driver from Wynne died Sunday in a two-vehicle collision on an icy highway in Poinsett County, authorities said.
Johnny M. Hefner was driving a 2008 Chrysler north on an "iced" Arkansas 1 about 5:45 p.m. when her vehicle spun out of control and ended up in the opposing lane, where it was hit by a southbound 1999 Jeep, according to an Arkansas State Police report.
Hefner died at the scene.
The other driver, identified as 42-year-old Tammy Kaye Hutchings, was taken to St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro with unspecified injuries, police said.
A search was called off because of darkness early Saturday night for one of two people who jumped from an interstate bridge in southwestern Arkansas into an icy river to avoid a jackknifed 18-wheeler that was skidding toward them.
The search for the missing person along the Little Red River was to resume Sunday morning, according to Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, which was leading the search.
"The water is 25 feet or less, so it's pretty shallow," Stephens said. "But the current is pretty high from the snow and ice from the storms."
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.