LITTLE RIVER COUNTY, AR : 3 dead after truck crashes into vehicle parked on shoulder on Thursday, 29th June 2023

Two passengers and a pedestrian are dead after a truck crashed into a vehicle parked on the side of the road.

On June 28 at 4:32 p.m., the Arkansas State Police (ASP) responded to a car crash on U.S. Highway 71 in Little River County.

Upon arrival, officers learned that a 2017 Ford Transit van was parked on the shoulder of the road and a pedestrian, a New Boston, Texas, resident Christopher Robinson, 34, was assisting a motorist with a flat tire. At the same time, Matthew West, 34, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was driving south in a 2023 Toyota Tundra on U.S. 71 near Ogden with his passengers — John Hucke, 65, and Carrie Flynn, 61, both from Shreveport.

Robinson was walking around the rear of his vehicle to help with the flat tire when the Toyota Tundra struck Robinson and his vehicle.


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