A Blytheville man died after his tractor-trailer rear-ended another 18-wheeler on Interstate 55 in eastern Arkansas Monday*, state police said.
Authorities say Tederian Blair, 36, was heading south on I-55 in his 2001 Freightliner shortly before 7 a.m. when he drove into the back of a 1996 Freightliner.
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The crash occurred west of Joiner. The other driver was uninjured.
Police listed conditions as clear and dry at the time of the wreck, and the death marked the 520th of the year on Arkansas roads, according to preliminary state police information.
CORRECTION: Because of erroneous information on an Arkansas State Police report, the time and date of the wreck was incorrect in an earlier version of this story.