Terry Bailey, 54, Johnie Patterson, 38, and Dennis Hyman, 53, dead, 7 injured major multi-vehicle crash on I-49 in Fouke, Arkansas

A tractor-trailer driving south slowed down and was rear-ended, causing a chain-reaction crash involving 10 vehicles, state police said. The interstate remained closed Tuesday morning and traffic has been detoured onto U.S. 71 as the investigation and cleanup continues. Story by The Associated Press TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) -- Three people were killed and at least seven others injured in separate chain-reaction collisions involving more than a dozen vehicles on an interstate in southwest Arkansas, authorities said. At about the same time, three tractor-trailers collided in the northbound lanes -- which are separated from the southbound lanes by a median. Fouke is about 160 miles southwest of Little Rock and lies close to the Texas and Louisiana state lines.

A tractor-trailer driving south slowed down and was rear-ended, causing a chain-reaction crash involving 10 vehicles, state police said. TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — Three people were killed and at least seven others injured in separate chain-reaction collisions involving more than a dozen vehicles on an interstate in southwest Arkansas, authorities said. Fouke is about 160 miles southwest of Little Rock and lies close to the Texas and Louisiana state lines. The interstate remained closed Tuesday morning and traffic has been detoured onto U.S. 71 as the investigation and cleanup continues. State police said troopers are investigating whether fog may have contributed to the crashes.

Arkansas State Police say three people were killed and at least seven were injured in separate chain-reaction crashes on Interstate 49. Arkansas State Police say southbound lanes of Interstate 49 have reopened following chain-reaction crashes in both directions that killed three people and injured seven more. Arkansas State Police say one northbound lane of Interstate 49 has been reopened following chain-reaction crashes in both directions that killed three people and injured seven more. At about the same time, three tractor-trailers in the northbound lanes collided directly across the median from the southbound crash scene. A total of 10 vehicles were involved in this wreck in the southbound lanes of traffic.

He was a volunteer firefighter in Huntington, about 175 miles north of the crash site. Terry Bailey, 54, was killed when he was struck by a vehicle on the southbound lane of Interstate 49 near Fouke late Monday, police said in a crash report. TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — A volunteer firefighter who stopped to help motorists after a series of chain-reaction collisions on a foggy interstate in the southwest corner of Arkansas was among three people killed in the wrecks, state police said Thursday. Huntington Mayor Gary Lawrence, also a volunteer firefighter, said Bailey was driving freight on his normal route between Fort Smith and Shreveport, Louisiana, when the initial accident occurred. Lawrence said Bailey had volunteered for the department for more than a decade.