Icy-road spinout fatal to 62-year-old Arkansas driver

A 62-year-old Conway woman was killed when her vehicle spun out on an icy highway and hit a tractor-trailer, the Arkansas State Police said.

The crash happened shortly before 11 a.m. Wednesday in the 8000 block of U.S. 167 North in Sheridan, according to a preliminary report.

Authorities said Dorothiea Hyde was traveling south when she lost control of her 2011 Nissan Versa on ice, causing it to spin into the path of a tractor-trailer.

Hyde was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash by Grant County Coroner Thomas Berchfield, the report said.

No other injuries were noted.

Metro on 01/19/2018

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