Little Rock, AR : 3 killed in wrecks on state highways on Monday, January 30th 2017

Three people were killed recently in separate accidents on Arkansas highways, state police said.

Arkansas State Police said 32-year-old James Q. Adams of Fulton died Monday after he lost control of his van and crashed on Interstate 30 in southwest Arkansas in a single-vehicle wreck.

State police said the wreck happened shortly after 1 a.m. According to a preliminary report, Adams drove into the median and his van overturned. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Little Rock teen was killed after the pickup he was riding in was struck Tuesday by another pickup while parked on the median of Interstate 30, police said.

Jorge Avalos, 18, was a passenger in a westbound 2005 Nissan Titan that was parked on the median of the highway near an exit onto 65th Street in Little Rock about 3:30 p.m., according to an Arkansas State Police report released over the weekend.

A 2011 Chevrolet Silverado also heading west drove onto the median and collided with the pickup, officials said. Avalos suffered fatal injuries.

A 16-year-old boy who had been driving the Titan and another passenger, a 14-year-old girl, were injured in the wreck, officials said. The Silverado's driver, 42-year-old Larry Kuykendall of Pearcy, was also reported injured.

At least one of the injured was transported to UAMS Medical Center for treatment, authorities said.

Conditions were reportedly clear and dry at the time of the wreck.

On Friday afternoon, a 60-year-old man was killed in a head-on collision on an Arkansas highway, according to state police.

Authorities say the crash happened about 12:45 p.m. when Allan D. Jumper of Palestine was traveling south on U.S. 79 in Palestine in a Ford F-150.

Jumper's pickup crossed the centerline and hit a northbound 2012 Dodge pickup driven by Lee Floyd, 48, according to a preliminary report.

Jumper was killed as a result of the crash. A passenger in Floyd's pickup, 49-year-old Billy Robbins of Chapel Hill, Tenn., was also injured, police said.

The report states that Floyd was not injured in the wreck.

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3 killed in wrecks on state highways