Early on Saturday morning, December 3, a Pine Bluff boy died and four others were injured in a car crash in Jefferson County.

According to the Arkansas State Police the crash happened around 6:20 a.m. Saturday on U.S. Highway 65 at the Cottondale overpass. It appears that the boy was a passenger in a 2006 Dodge Durango being driven by 28 year old Phillip Cummins of Pine Bluff and was traveling northbound when it left the roadway and struck a guardrail. A boy in the vehicle was ejected and struck by a 2015 Nissan Altima. It is not known whether the ejected passenger was the boy who died. Cummins, 30 year old Matina Cummins and two children, a boy and a girl were injured and taken to Jefferson regional Medical Center.

It is not known why the vehicle left the roadway but weather may be a factor as the road was wet and it was raining.

If you have been injured as a result of someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing, you deserve full and fair compensation. Please call the Little Rock auto accident attorneys of the Law Offices of Alan LeVar, at (844) 867-5053 or contact us online to schedule your free consultation.

On Thursday, October 13, a Little Rock man was killed in a crash between a train and a pickup in Jefferson County.

According to the sheriff’s office, the accident happened at around 9 a.m. Thursday morning on a stretch of tracks between Wabbeska and Humphrey when 46 year old Albert J. Gornatti Jr., of Little Rock, was driving a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup and collided with the train at a crossing of U.S. 63 just outside Wabbeska, some 19 miles north east of Pine Bluff.

Gornatti was hit by the train and killed and there were no other injuries.

The sheriff’s office continues to investigate and at this time, they believe that alcohol could have been a factor. The crossing does have a stop sign and railroad crossing indicators but does not have crossing gates for motorists.

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On Tuesday, September 13, a man died after his car went into a pond in west Little Rock.

According to Little Rock Police Department, the accident happened at around 5.30 in a man made pond just east of the 1900 block of Rahling Road.

When police arrived, they saw a red car which was fully submerged in the water and having been pulled from the car the driver was taken to a local hospital where he was found to be deceased. Police continued to examine the scene to see if anyone else was in the vehicle.

According to witnesses, the driver, who was later identified as 19 year old Eduardo Miguel Alvarez Flores had been swerving in an out of traffic before leaving the roadway, crashing into trees and then ending up in the pond.

The accident is still under investigation and the results of toxicology are awaited.

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On Monday, August 8, a motorist died in a wrong way crash on Interstate 40.

According to authorities, the accident happened at around 3.30 a.m. when police received a call saying that there was vehicle traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of the interstate in Crawford County.

Trooper Roy Moomey, aged 41 of Van Buren was dispatched to the scene in his 2014 Dodge State Police Cruiser and was crashed into head on by 24 year old Matthew C. Coate of Fort Smith who was driving a 2012 Ford.

Coates died in the collision and the trooper, who is the son of a Little Rock police officer,was taken to Sparks Regional Medical Center in Fort Smith and was in serious but stable condition. He has two broken legs, broken ankle, broken wrist, fractured vertebrae, broken pelvis and ribs and a punctured lung.

Coates was said to be drunk at the time of the accident but toxicology is awaited for confirmation, and the investigation is ongoing,

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On Thursday, June 9, the driver of a vehicle which was involved in a fatal train accident was taken into custody.

The accident happened at the Sidell Road train crossing back on the early morning May 6, when 28 year old Laura E. Holmes of North Little Rock was driving from a pool hall in Little Rock at around 4.30 a.m. and drove onto the train tracks at the Sidell Road train crossing where the vehicle got stuck on the tracks. Her passenger, 36 year old Marina Prescott of Benton got out of the vehicle and tried to free the vehicle by pushing it. The Union Pacific train came along the track and was hit and killed, while Holmes was ejected and airlifted to Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock.

After a month long investigation, detectives determined that Holmes had negligently caused the death of Prescott by operating the vehicle under the influence of intoxicants. Holmes was arrested and taking to Saline County Sheriff’s Department Detention Facility where she was booked in and released.

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On Friday evening, May 13, a woman from Little Rock was killed in a five vehicle crash in Faulkner County.

According to the police, the accident happened at around 6.15 p.m. on Interstate 40 at Conway.

Andrea Epperson, aged 43 of Little Rock, was driving eastbound in a 2013 Toyota Highlander SUV when a Ford F350 truck driving westbound crossed the median and hit her vehicle head on. The SUV then became airborne and was hit by two other vehicles traveling eastbound while airborne. The Ford then collided with another oncoming vehicle in the eastbound lanes.

Epperson was killed and the drivers of three of the other vehicles were taken to UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock, Conway Regional Medical Center in Conway, and Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock hospital but their conditions are unknown. Those drivers were 37 year old Michael Phillips of North Little Rock who was driving the Ford, 44 year old Carol Betts of Neosho, Missouri, and 54 year old Travis Miller of Rison.

Those in the fifth vehicle were not reported as injured.

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On Sunday, February 8, there was a crash in Louisiana involving a teen from Little Rock.

According to Louisiana State Troopers, the crash happened on the Interstate 55, north of LA 442 in Tangipahoa Parish. Nakayla Camp, who was 19 years old and of Little Rock, was driving an SUV when she lost control of her vehicle which went off of the right lane onto the grassy shoulder. She over corrected to the left and the car went across the southbound lanes and into the median. It then overturned, landing in the northbound lane.

Camp was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected but survived and was airlifted to a hospital in a critical condition. However, her passenger, 19 year old Shayla Hayes, who did have her seat belt on, was severely injured and died on the scene.

As part of the investigation, blood and alcohol tests were done on Camp, and she was issued a summons for careless operation and no driver’s license. Once the results of toxicology are in, there may be additional charges.

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Very early on Friday morning, December 4, a former MTV reality show personality was killed in a car crash.

According to Arkansas State Police, the accident happened shortly after 1.30 a.m. on U.S. Highway 70 approximately six miles east of Hot Springs. Chris Carney, son of the mayor of Hot Springs as well as a television personality and his childhood friend 37 year old Ezekiel Blanton were driving back from Little Rock where they had been attending a fantasy football event. Police say their vehicle, being driven by Blanton, failed to negotiate a curve and over-corrected, leading to a collision with a tree.

Neither was wearing a seat belt and both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Witnesses at the Tavern in Little Rock say that both were drinking and Carney was unable to stand up, making him unable to judge whether his friend, who had also been drinking, was fit to drive.

This incident makes 12 deaths on Highway 70 in the past 12 months.

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On Thursday, October 8 a man from Little Rock was killed in a crash on Interstate 40.

According to State Police, the accident happened shortly before 2.30 on the I 40 near mile marker 120 south of Menifee. Malcolm Xavier Webb, aged 23, from Little Rock was a passenger in a 2015 Dodge Caravan and the vehicle was slowing down due to heavy traffic eastbound. It was struck from behind by a 1996 Peterbilt and this impact caused the Dodge to collide with a 2013 GMC Terrain which in turn hit another unknown vehicle.

Webb was taken to Conway Medical Centre but was pronounced dead at 3.53 p.m. the same day. The driver of the Dodge, 24 year old Brianna McCulloughof St Louis was injured as well as three other passengers in the vehicle; Joshua Banner-Summerville, aged 22 of Little Rock and 22 year old Aleisha Brown and 26 year old Jacob Deaver, both from Sherwood. The driver of the GMC, 51 year old Jacqueline Chandler of Kansas City and her passenger, 21 year old Tony Dewayne Glover Jr., of Little Rock were also injured.

The investigation is still ongoing but it is thought that the weather could be a contributory factor as it was cloudy and the road was wet at the time of the crash.

If you have been injured as a result of someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing, you deserve full and fair compensation. Please call the Little Rock auto accident attorneys of The Law Offices of Alan LeVar, at (844) 867-5053 or contact us online to schedule your free consultation.