A Mountain Home man was one of three killed, and a Gamaliel man was one of five injured in a two-vehicle accident Thursday morning north of Jonesboro. Fifty-eight-year-old John Lewis of Mountain Home, 63-year-old David Vanwinkle of Winona, Mo., and 62-year-old Timothy Foote of West Burlington, Iowa, were pronounced dead. Thirty-four-year-old Garrett Sorrell of Gamaliel, 44-year-old Donald Williams of Maynard, 29-year-old David Reading Jr. of St. Louis, 35-year-old Robert Harris of Greentop, Mo., and 35-year-old Jimmy McMullen of Collinsville, Okla., were all transported to Jonesboro hospitals.
According to the Arkansas State Police, Lewis was traveling toward Jonesboro on U.S. Highway 63. The van driven by Vanwinkle and occupied by Sorrell, Williams, Reading, Harris, McMullen and Foote was heading in the opposite direction. Lewis’ pickup truck reportedly collided head-on with the van on the northbound fog line.
The weather was cloudy, and the road was wet at the time of the 5:40 a.m. accident.
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