PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — A tractor-trailer crossed a highway center line and struck a car head on, killing a woman and her four young children, police said.
The truck driver, Roy Lee Jordan, 57, of Benton, Miss., was arrested and jailed after Saturday's crash, police and a jailer said.
"What it seems like right now is that the driver of the 18-wheeler fell asleep or lost consciousness before his rig crossed the center line," trooper Oscar Bullard Jr. said. Blood and urine samples were taken to the state crime laboratory for drug and alcohol tests, state police said.
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LaKetria Wells, 26, of Monticello, was killed along with her children, LaKiyah Wells, 7; Kaleb Jarrell Stokes, 5; Keyshon Wells, 4; and LaKayla Wells, 2.