Police: 26-year-old man dies after two-vehicle crash in Arkansas

A northeast Arkansas crash Friday morning left a 26-year-old man dead, police said.

The three-vehicle wreck happened shortly after 9:30 a.m. on U.S. 49 at Mockingbird Lane in Paragould, according to a preliminary report from the Arkansas State Police.

Authorities say a northbound Chevrolet driven by Wesley Scott Crossno of Paragould crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into a stopped southbound vehicle listed as a Freightliner.

Crossno’s vehicle then hit the driver’s side of a Jaguar also stopped in southbound traffic, according to the report.

Crossno suffered fatal injures as result of the crash, state police said, noting that he was taken to Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould. No one else was reported hurt.

The weather was listed as clear and the highway was described as dry at the time.

At least 204 people have died in traffic crashes so far this year on Arkansas roads, based on preliminary figures from state police.

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