Five killed in Arkansas when truck collides with van carrying disabled adults
Show caption A crash in south-east Arkansas on Monday between a large truck and a van carrying disabled adults left five killed. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Arkansas Five killed in Arkansas when truck collides with van carrying disabled adults Five others were injured in the crash involving a passenger van from the Adult Center in Arkansas City Associated Press Wed 8 Jun 2022 01.13 BST Share on Facebook
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Five people were killed and five others injured after a large truck collided with a van belonging to a school serving disabled adults in south-east Arkansas, authorities said.
The crash happened Monday afternoon on US 65 when the 15-passenger van failed to yield when crossing the highway in rural Chicot county and collided with a truck hauling cooking oil, Arkansas state police spokesman Bill Sadler said Tuesday.
Sadler said the van belonged to C B King Memorial school, a non-profit that provides services in several south-eastern Arkansas counties to people with developmental delays or disabilities, according to its website.
“Our C B King Family is hurting tonight,” the school’s director of programs, Lora Medina, said in a statement Monday. “We don’t have the words right now to express our pain. The Adult Center in Arkansas City will be closed for now as we process what has happened.”
Killed in the crash were Regina Jackson, 65; Terry King, 56; Tommy Figures, 50; and Brayshawn Ranson, 19, all of Dermott; and Geraldine Prewitt, 73, of McGehee, state police said. The drivers of both vehicles were injured, along with three other passengers in the van, police said.
State police will assign a reconstruction team to determine what led to the collision, Sadler said.
“At this juncture in the investigation, it appears that the driver of the van did not see the oncoming traffic,” Sadler said Tuesday morning.
The National Transportation Safety Board also said it would investigate.
The crash occurred south of Dermott, about 100 miles (160 km) south-east of Little Rock in the Mississippi River Delta region.
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