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Latosha Nicole Leathers, 23, and two children killed after car hits tractor trailer on U.S. 71 in Polk County, Arkansas

Date:

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Area:

Latosha Nicole Leathers was driving north on U.S. 71 with two children in the car when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a tractor-trailer. All three people were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor trailer, Marla Gayle Pipes, 52, was injured and taken to Mena Regional Health System for treatment.

Whitney Gardner, 27, killed in single-vehicle car crash on Arkansas 311 near Green Forest, Arkansas

Date:

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Area:

Springfield, MO

A Green Forest woman died Thursday from injuries she sustained in a Wednesday collision in Carroll County. Whitney Gardner, 27, of Green Forest, was traveling northbound on Arkansas 311 in a Dodge Durango when the vehicle exited the roadway, crashed into a fence and a tree, and rolled over four miles north of Green Forest.

Tiffney L. Fields-Foley, 20, killed and Krystal Gorbet and one other person injured in single-vehicle car crash on U.S. 62 in Marion County, Arkansas

Date:

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Area:

Springfield, MO

Tiffney L. Fields-Foley, 20, from Gassville, died in a car crash on Saturday afternoon. Fields-Foley was a passenger in a Dodge Durango traveling west on U.S. 62 in Marion County. The driver of the SUV, Krystal Gorbet of Midway, lost control on the icy road and the vehicle ended up exiting the roadway and striking a tree. Gorbet and an unidentified minor were injured and transported to a Harrison hospital. Their condition is not currently being reported.

Brittney Chappel, 20, killed in single-vehicle car accident on U.S. 79 in Ouachita County, Arkansas

Date:

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Area:

Little Rock-Pine Bluff, AR

Brittney I’tiana Nikole Chappel, 20, of Magnolia, died Sunday afternoon when the vehicle in which she was riding overturned in Ouachita County. Brittney N. Mitchell, 19, of Camden, was driving a Ford Mustang north of U.S. 79 when she lost control, ran off the road, overturned, and struck a tree. Mitchell was transported to the Ouachita County Medical Center. Her condition is not known at the time of this report.

Carolyn Standridge, 66, killed in collision with tractor trailer on U.S. 71 in Mena, Arkansas

Date:

Friday, December 12, 2014

Area:

Little Rock-Pine Bluff, AR

A Mena woman died Friday morning when her car crashed with a tractor-trailer. Carolyn Standridge, 66, was driving a 2000 Lincoln on U.S. 71 near Mena. John Draper, 46, of Shreveport, La., was driving a tractor-trailer north on 71. At about 6:20 a.m., Standridge’s car crossed the center line into the northbound lane and collided with the tractor-trailer. Standridge was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:06 a.m., while Draper was not injured.

Cynthia Simmons, 61, killed and three people injured in car accident on icy Interstate 55 in Mississippi County, Arkansas

Date:

Monday, November 17, 2014

Area:

Memphis, TN

One woman died and three other people were injured in a four-vehicle crash Monday morning. Cynthia Simmons, 61, of Blytheville was killed in the accident on Interstate 55 at the 67 mile marker just after 4:30 a.m. Latonya Harvey of Blytheville lost control on ice while trying to stop on a bridge. The vehicle Simmons was driving hit Harvey's vehicle and spun onto the shoulder. Another driver, Avery Jackson of Blytheville, also lost control but managed to stop in the right lane. Anthony Green of Sikeston, MO struck Jackson's vehicle and then hit Simmons.

Shameeka Patterson, 37, killed while Mike Hamrick, Barbara Jones, Claude Roberts, and Bobby Ray Williams all hospitalized after fiery crash on an icy bridge of Highway 64 near Wynne, AR

Date:

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Area:

Memphis, TN

At about 5:30am, Patterson lost control of her vehicle on an icy bridge of Highway 64 and collided with a pickup truck, then a concrete barrier, where her vehicle caught fire. A semi-truck then tried to avoid the wreck but ended up hitting the pickup truck and swinging into oncoming traffic, hitting two more vehicles. Patterson was killed, and everyone else involved except for the driver of the semi truck, David Tidd, was hospitalized. Check back for more details as the investigation of this accident continues.

Iketha Winchester, 45, and Robert Billings, 65, killed and many injured in multi-vehicle accident involving semi trucks on Interstate 40 in West Memphis, Arkansas

Date:

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Area:

Memphis, TN

Two people died in a car accident on Interstate 40 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Six cars were involved in the crash and at least one of them caught fire. Investigators think the weather and construction on I-40 were factors in the crash. A 13-year-old girl is among those people injured, and is being treated at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital.