Three Arkansas drivers were killed Thursday in separate highway crashes, including two wrecks where vehicles veered off wet roads and another crash where the driver's car flipped over multiple times, authorities said.
The Arkansas State Police said 36-year-old Rusty McPherson of Romance was driving a 2002 Jaguar north on Arkansas 5 around 9:25 p.m. in Cabot when the vehicle went off the right side of the highway and hit a concrete culvert. McPherson suffered fatal injuries.
A highway trooper responded to a separate deadly crash around 3 p.m. on Arkansas 263 in Stone County near the Baxter County line.
Police said Michael Phillips, 55, of Shirley died after his 2001 Chevrolet went off the road and struck a tree.
Just north of that wreck, police responded to another crash around 10:40 a.m. along Arkansas 126 near Gassville.
Authorities said 69-year-old Kathleen Thompson of Midway suffered fatal injuries after going around a curve when she left the road and her Nissan Sentra overturned multiple times.
Reports said the roads were wet in each of the crashes. Police noted heavy rain at the time of Phillips' wreck.
Preliminary figures show at least 121 people have died in wrecks along Arkansas roads since the beginning of the year, including at least 24 people in April.