Crashes on state roads kill three, including ATV rider, police report

LITTLE ROCK — Three people died in highway crashes in Arkansas on Saturday, according to preliminary fatality reports by the Arkansas State Police.

A 53-year-old Chidester woman died in an ATV crash on Arkansas 76 at 5:37 p.m. in Ouachita County, according to one report.

Nenita Willis was a passenger on a 2010 Polaris when it made a U-turn in a ditch on Arkansas 765 and overturned onto the passenger side, the report said.

Willis was partially ejected and the vehicle came to rest on her, according to the report.

An unnamed McRae woman died at 7:28 p.m. in a headon collision on Arkansas 155 in Union County, according to a report.

The 35-year-old woman was a passenger in a 2004 Pontiac that crossed the centerline and struck a 2015 Toyota head-on, the report said. James Williams, 30, of Ward, who was listed as the driver of the Pontiac, and Shawn Strickland, 25, of El Dorado, who was listed as the driver of the Toyota, were both injured in the crash, the report said.

A 23-year-old Tuckerman man died in a head-on collision on Arkansas 7 in Jackson County at 9:19 p.m. Saturday, according to a state police report.

Chase L. Scudder was a passenger in a 2008 Pontiac traveling south on the highway. A 2012 Toyota traveling north swerved left to avoid an object in the road and returned to the northbound lane, the report said. However, the Pontiac swerved left in response to Toyota’s swerve and struck the Toyota, the report said.

William D. Golden, 32, of Newport, the driver of the Toyota, and Jadan Williamson, 21, of McCroy, the driver of the Pontiac, were both injured in the crash, according to the report.