A 35 year-old McRae woman who has yet to be identified was killed Saturday evening in a car crash in Union County.
According to an Arkansas State Police road fatality report, shortly before 7:30 p.m., the McRae woman was travelling north along "State Highway 155 near the 3500 block," with James Williams, 30, of Ward, who was driving, in 2004 Pontiac as Shawn Strickland, 25, of El Dorado, travelled south in a 2015 Toyota.
The News-Times reached out to the ASP to confirm that the accident occurred on Highway 155, as the report says; Public Information Officer Bill Sadler said the information on the report is all that is available.
The report says the Pontiac crossed the center line of the roadway during wet and rainy conditions and struck the Toyota head-on.
Both Williams and Strickland were transported to the Medical Center of South Arkansas to receive treatment for injuries, according to the report.
The accident was the 109th to occur on an Arkansas highway this year, and the woman was the 119th person to die in a car wreck on an Arkansas highway in 2021. ASP Trooper Justin K. Cherry responded to the wreck.
According to previous News-Times reporting, two other fatal car accidents have occurred in Union County this year. On February 7, local cardiologist Dr. Aldo Fonticiella, 63, of El Dorado, was killed in an accident on U.S. Highway 82; and on January 8, William J. Bradley, 21, of Hampton, and Eric C. White, 44, of West Monroe, were killed in an accident on the Calion River Bridge.
A Chidester woman also was killed in a car crash in Ouachita County Saturday evening.
According to another ASP road fatality report, Nenita Willis, 53, was a passenger in a 2010 Polaris travelling south on Highway 76 shortly after 5:30 p.m. Saturday when the driver attempted a U-turn. The report says the vehicle went into the northbound ditch, where it turned onto its passenger side; Willis was ejected and struck by the vehicle, the report says.
Conditions were wet and cloudy at the time of the Ouachita County accident. Willis was the 108th person killed on an Arkansas Highway this year. Trooper Justin W. Starnes responded to the scene.
Sadler previously noted to the News-Times that road fatality reports are preliminary, and full investigations of highway crashes are also conducted by the ASP.