A single-car crash on Interstate 40 in North Little Rock Monday afternoon killed a 20-year-old Conway resident, according to a preliminary report from the Arkansas State Police.
Lael Leonard was killed at 1 p.m. when the 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer he was driving eastbound left the highway near the Interstate 430 interchange and overturned, according to the report.
Two passengers, Alexis Hoyt, 18, of Conway and Carterius Toney, 20, of Mayflower, were injured in the crash.
Two other people were killed on Arkansas roads Sunday, according to state police reports.
A 17-year-old boy died in southern Arkansas after he was ejected from a pickup that flipped several times, authorities said.
The crash happened at 12:20 a.m. on Arkansas 129 in the Union County city of Strong, according to an Arkansas State Police preliminary report.
Troopers wrote that the teen was driving a 2007 GMC pickup south on the highway near James Road when he lost control of the truck.
The GMC veered off the road, and as the driver overcorrected, the truck crossed the centerline and overturned five times, the report states.
State police said the youth was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not released.
A 28-year-old Arkansas man was hit and killed Sunday night after he walked onto U.S. 65 in Lincoln County, according to a report.
Jauswan Lane of Gould was hit around 6:15 p.m., when he walked into the southbound lane of U.S. 65 in front of a 2013 Dodge headed south on the highway, an Arkansas State Police report states. The wreck happened in Gould, authorities said.
Lane was taken to Delta Memorial Hospital in Dumas, where he was pronounced dead, according to the report.
Metro on 09/18/2018