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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