GURDON, Arkansas — A Wisconsin woman died in a four-car pileup on Interstate 30 in Southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening, Nov. 30, 2025.
Cheryl Ruth Franks, 69, died after a collision near the 54 eastbound mile-marker, just east of the Okolona exit. According to a preliminary fatal crash report posted by Arkansas State Police, Franks was among three other eastbound drivers involved. The report states that Franks, driving a 2012 Lincoln Navigator, collided with the rear of a 2015 Ford Expedition.
Franks was med-flighted from the scene to CHI St. Vincent hospital in Hot Springs, but succumbed to the injuries suffered in the wreck…