Female football employee was on motorcycle with Petrino

Head football Coach Bobby Petrino and Jessica Dorrell attended a fan event in Searcy on Feb. 23, 2012.
Head football Coach Bobby Petrino and Jessica Dorrell attended a fan event in Searcy on Feb. 23, 2012.

— Jessica Dorrell, who was hired last week to an administrative role within the Arkansas football department, was on the back of Bobby Petrino's motorcycle when it crashed Sunday in Madison County, according to the accident report released Thursday by the Arkansas State Police.

The report contradicts a statement made by the Petrino family through the University of Arkansas athletics media relations office on Monday stating the Razorbacks' football coach was the only individual involved in the accident. Petrino crashed his Harley-Davidson around 6:45 p.m. Sunday on Arkansas 16 near the rural community of Crosses, about 23 miles southeast of Fayetteville.

Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino talks about a motorcycle accident that left him with four broken ribs, a cracked vertebrae and a neck sprain.

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According to the report, Petrino and Dorrell were picked up by Benjamin Adam Williams, Jody Diane Stewart and Williams' 12-year-old son, all of Ozark. Petrino and Dorrell were transported to the intersection of Huntsville Road and Crossover Road in east Fayetteville, where Dorrell departed the vehicle.

Petrino was met there by Capt. Lance King, an Arkansas state trooper who serves as his security detail during football season, and transported to Physicians' Specialty Hospital in Fayetteville. King is also the commander of Arkansas State Police Troop L, based in Springdale.



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According to the report, Dorrell was not injured in the accident. Neither Petrino nor Dorrell was cited by police for the accident. Petrino suffered four broken ribs, a neck sprain and a cracked vertebrae in the accident, he said Tuesday. Dorrell was not injured, according to the report.

Dorrell, 25, is a former volleyball player at the UA and had previously worked for The Razorback Foundation Inc., the university's private fundraising arm. She was hired as student-athlete development coordinator for football on March 28.

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Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino speaks during a news conference in Fayetteville on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, after being released from a hospital.

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A woman identified as Jessica Dorrell on the University of Arkansas athletics website.

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Bobby Petrino's Harley-Davidson motorcycle following an accident on Sunday.

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