Early morning wreck kills Hampton man

A Hampton man was killed in a Union County wreck early Saturday morning.

Arkansas State Police said William Porter, 34, died after the Toyota he was a passenger in left the road and skidded into an embankment on Arkansas 167, one-eighth mile south of Calion, at 12:50 a.m.

Porter was pronounced dead at the Medical Center of South Arkansas. The driver Kevin Jackson, 33, of Petal, Miss., was injured in the crash, police said.

Preliminary records indicated conditions as clear and dry at the time of the wreck. The death was the 250th of 2016 on the roads in Arkansas.

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