Crashes on state roads leave three people dead

Three people were killed in traffic crashes in Arkansas on Monday and Tuesday, according to police reports.

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A passenger in a minivan was killed after the vehicle was driven into a ditch in Independence County on Tuesday morning, police said.

The 2007 Dodge Caravan was traveling north on Arkansas 25 at the southwest edge of Batesville shortly after 8 a.m., according to an Arkansas State Police report.

The vehicle went off the road and struck an embankment near an intersection with Fred Street, police said. A passenger, 77-year-old Cecilia Smith Welch of Osyka, Miss., suffered fatal injuries.

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No one else was reported injured. Conditions were clear and dry at the time of the wreck.

A woman was killed in a head-on crash with a garbage truck in Paragould on Tuesday morning, police said.

Paragould Police Chief Todd Stovall said the woman's vehicle collided with a garbage truck on U.S. 412 near Greene County Tech Junior High School in Paragould. The truck and the woman's vehicle were the only two vehicles involved in the crash, he said.

Police said the garbage truck driver was not injured in the wreck.

Stovall said that his department would not be investigating the collision because a city vehicle was involved. Arkansas State Police is investigating.

A wreck Monday night on Interstate 30 involving a pickup and a tractor-trailer left a Texarkana man dead, according to the Arkansas State Police.

In a preliminary report, the agency said the accident happened about 8:50 p.m. as eastbound traffic on the highway backed up at the end of another wreck near Mandeville.

The driver of a 2004 Ford Ranger, 29-year-old Dustin Edmonson, failed to stop in time as he approached stopped vehicles and hit the rear of a tractor-trailer, according to authorities.

Edmonson was taken to Christus St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana, Texas, where he was later pronounced dead, the report noted.

No other injuries were reported in the crash. Police did not identify the driver of the tractor-trailer.

Travel conditions at the time of the wreck were described as clear and dry.

Metro on 03/29/2017

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