HARRISON, Ark. — Two rural Hutchinson residents have been confirmed as the ones killed in a three-vehicle accident in Arkansas Tuesday afternoon.
Seventy-two-year-old Fred Dugger and his wife, 70-year-old Diane Dugger, were confirmed as the victims using dental records at the Arkansas State Crime Lab.
Arkansas state police report that 51-year-old Trevor McGehee of Mountain Home, Arkansas, was eastbound on Highway 62. He stopped to wait for a vehicle in front of him to turn left onto Keeter Loop.
The driver of a third car, a minor who was not identified, hit McGehee’s vehicle from behind, forcing it into the path of Dugger’s westbound motorhome.
The motorhome hit the car, then left the roadway before it hit a mobile home and burst into flames. The Duggers were unable to escape from the vehicle. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
The accident happened around 4:20 p.m., five miles east of Harrison, or about 40 miles south of Branson, Missouri.