The Arkansas State Police released preliminary fatal crash summaries Thursday detailing five traffic crashes that claimed five lives across the region in late August and early September.
The most recent fatal crash occurred at 3:55 a.m. Sunday in rural Fulton County. According to state police, pedestrian Reid Grant, 18, of Franklin, was struck in a lane of traffic on Byron Road by a southbound 2014 Toyota Avalon. Grant was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Saturday at 7:35 p.m., an unidentified driver was killed in Independence County when a westbound 2018 Ram pickup left the north side of State Highway 25 near Charlotte. The vehicle struck a creek embankment, overturned, and caught fire…