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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.
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.